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Re: Prodigal Son Distorted by FB Pastor
The prodigal left because of the RULES? No sirrree.
When we think of the prodigal son, we often forget the elder brother who never left home. But that elder brother had a problem as well. RULES. The elder brother complained about the younger one who was given such a welcome home with the fatted calf, because the elder never left home and never got anything! It was as though the elder was looking at RULES and WHO DESERVES WHAT due to their goodness. The prodigal's treatment by the father certainly blew apart that idea. And the elder thought that everything was haywire. HE LIVED BY RULES.
The father informed the elder son that the fatted calf was his at any given time and all he had was at the son's disposal. "You mean to tell me that you did not realize you could have taken anything you wanted all this time?"
Living by rules was far from the reason the son left. The elder son stayed and it was a rule-type mentality that kept him from enjoying the father's house! A Behavioural mentality. Do good and get things. The prodigal son blew that theory to pieces! It did not support it!
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...MY THOUGHTS, ANYWAY.
"Many Christians do not try to understand what was written in a verse in the Bible. Instead they approach the passage to prove what they already believe."
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