Sunday, April 17, 2011
There's nothing like the father's love
In "The Parable of the Prodigal Son," there is a father and two sons. The younger of the sons decides that he wants to take his share of their money and take a long journey. On the journey he blows all of his savings and ends up feeding and sleeping pigs because he was so careless with his money. Then he decides to return to his fathers house and ask for forgiveness. His father welcomes him home without question, and even decides to have a huge feast to celebrate his arrival back home. After seeing that his father let his younger brother come back home after what he did, the older brother becomes infuriated. While he never left the farm, his brother left for a long time and blew all of his savings, yet his father still wants to have a celebration feast? In this story the younger brother represents the every-day sinner, the older brother represents the pharisees, and the father represents God.
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Colten, I really liked your comment. I totally agree with you about the brother being the every-day sinner and the father being God. I also think a lot about that when I read this parable. I like to read the parables in the bible. They are every day stories with a Heavenly meaning. I always get help from the parables. That is probably why Jesus spoke in parables a lot. He spoke in ways that all people could get help and understand what he was trying to tell them. I like what you said about the older brother representing the pharisees. There is not a lot of emphasis put on him in the parable but I liked how you brought that out about him. I didn't even think about that until I read your comment. Great comment!
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