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[coincheck]

Good Points, good parables too.

[amnestynone]

The Bible itself is mostly parable. The ancients hid their wisdom in parables and allegories. You had to develop spiritual enlightenment in order to discover the real meanings. The whole Bible has esoteric (hidden) meanings and what you read is basically a surface with much deeper level for the deeper person.

[delchiante]

The 30,60,100 from the Parable of Sower are found in scripture, but in riddle form. - Each has specific meaning and Judaism and Christianity can’t teach them as they are currently formed..

What a blessing to see what He meant in those specific numbers and how it relates to anyone’s journey in the wilderness..

But again, religion can’t teach it- but He can for anyone with ears to hear..

[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[vladimir998]

“A man went out to wash his car. He took with him a bucket filled with soapy water and some sponges. As he washed the car, some of the dirt came off at once. Some of it came off only after much scrubbing. Some of the dirt didn’t come off at all. Let him who has ears to hear, take heed.”

Answer: Take the car to a car wash. That gets all the dirt off all the time.

[vladimir998]

Great, free, book on parables: https://books.google.com/books?id=LCE2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=fonck+parables&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAGoVChMIy7HR3KD8yAIVFuljCh1S6QF1#v=onepage&q=fonck%20parables&f=false

[roamer_1]

the average human shepherd would probably cut his losses and stay with the ninety-nine. Many of us might even consider it irresponsible to leave ninety-nine in order to search for one.

Wrong.

[chuckles]

The reason for parables was to impart knowledge from God to His people. To understand the Spiritual meaning of the verses you need the Holy Spirit. From Genesis to Revelation, the same terms are used over and over to represent the same things so a story can be explained only if you know the code. For instance, a tree is a person, an olive tree is an anointed person. A woman is a church, bread, meat, milk is the Word, locusts, birds, beasts of the field almost always denote demons or evil spirits. Mark 8:22-25 illustrated this. The man was blind, but when Jesus spit in his eyes, he saw trees walking like men. He was still physically blind, but his spiritual sight was healed. Jesus later healed his physical sight, but even if He hadn’t, the man could now see spiritual things, which Jesus thought was more important than regular sight.

An quick example would be Isaiah 4:1. It should read this way,..In the Last Days, 7 churches in Revelation 2-3, which 7 represents all religions, will call themselves Christian( one Man), we will make up our own doctrine and call what we want righteous, only keep calling ourselves Christian even though we know He would not approve, just so we can not be called Antichrist or Satan worshipers. That explains abortion, sodomy, fornication, and other sins accepted in the church today. The parable of the virgins speaks of His Bride getting ready to go with Him while others that are foolish,…not so much. Levin is sin, Egypt is the world, Sodom is sexual immorality, a horn is power like a king, and on and on. If you can’t read this way, you will inevitably misinterpret what Jesus was saying to us.

A most important read is the letters to the churches in Revelation 2-3. The church of brotherly love in Philadelphia does it right and in Rev 3:10 is promised to be Raptured out of the Tribulation. All the others will remain behind to meet the Beast. In each church, Jesus says He knows their works, but you need to change something to go with me. The letter to Thyatira is speaking to the RC church specifically. Repent or be left behind in the Tribulation. vs Rev 2:22. If we look at Matt 12:31, Jesus was talking about blaspheming the Holy Spirit and after that, only spoke in parables. Matt 13:13-17, speaks of why He spoke in parables. What He explained is, if you don’t have the Holy Spirit, you can’t understand it and will NOT turn from your evil ways. This is where He fully explains that you need eyes to see and ears to hear, to fully understand what the meaning of the parable that He is speaking. Anytime you see “ears to hear” you should know there is more to what you read than the words on the page. As a last example, Matt 13:35 specifically says He is revealing secrets hidden from the foundation of the world. That is why you should recoil when someone describes parables as “moral stories”. You can’t possibly understand hidden secrets from God if you don’t read the Word in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the seal of God saying you belong to Him and will be with Him in Heaven. To think you can read the Bible on your own is foolishness. The Holy Spirit is our teacher.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Interesting. Thanks!