What do YOU think is the spiritual truth that Jesus is teaching with this parable? Shouldn't we remember to keep in mind the main rule of parabolic interpretation -- a parable has one central truth. All the details are not to be made to mean something. Knowing Jesus' OWN words that he came into the world to save sinners from their sins and that believing in him is how we accept his sacrifice for us - much in the same way the Old Testament saints believed and trusted in the Day of Atonement sacrifice to be an expiation for their sins that looked forward to the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world. So, knowing Jesus' teachings how can we then turn around and presume he would contradict his own words by teaching opposite of what he said?
The rule of interpretation that works well is to look at the who, where, when and what of the context of the teaching. All the parables Jesus gave had a central meaning but it was often hidden from those who would not believe him.
zkindly provide me with a link to the rules of YOPIOS "parabolic [sic] interpretation, because I've never heard of them. There were, however, 730,000 sites tjat came up. When I googled "Rules for Parablw inrwepretation" Google came up with 2,3000,000 results, So, I am forced to conclude that nearly each one of the non-Catholics has his/her own rules, and frankly, none of them has any authority either bliblically or personally to me. It seems to me that if you sincetely wanted an honest discussion, you'd show me the rules you demand I adhere to, especially the MAIN rule, The other question raised by your post is this: Where do you see that Christ contradicted anything he said by that parable?