[Judith Anne]

So, out of the 730,000 Google sites for parabolic interpretation, and the 7,300,000 for parable interpretation, you are unable to tell me the one that has the rules you go by?

[metmom]

So, out of the 730,000 Google sites for parabolic interpretation, and the 7,300,000 for parable interpretation, you are unable to tell me the one that has the rules you go by?

Post 521...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.

Since when did 2,300,000 mysteriously become 7,300,000????

OK, now I'm suspicious of the first number as well.

[boatbums]

Why would I “bother” to tell you anything? You've already made it perfectly clear no matter what I tell you, you won't believe it or be held to it. But just to clarify my previous post, the “rule” of parabolic (just a simple way of speaking about parables) interpretation was just that the parable had a central meaning and that the peripheral objects/people/items were not as important to that central meaning. Other than that, as was stated by others anything in Scripture should be interpreted by other Scripture and the difficult passages shouldn't be used to understand the simpler ones. See...not so many rules after all!