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Originally Posted by Coonskinner
Trying to paint the elder brother as lost requires that we add to the Scripture.
He needed some compassion, for sure.
But the inheritance was his. He was a true, fully vested son. Nothing lost about him.
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This coming from a person who probably agrees that we are judged by our own record?
Is pride and self-righteous sin or not?
It doesn't require adding to the text --- or to the story. The theme of the parables is lostness. The characters all display a type of lostness. The very real, surface, primary meaning reveals the Pharisees in the Elder Brother. We know what Jesus thought of their fate, if they did not turn their hearts toward him! At the least, I'd say the verdict is left out on the elder brother?
Fully vested inheritance? Hmmmm... You are starting to sound like an elder brother with comments like that
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