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Parables on Point: Meeting the Mind of Jesus
By: Gary Arthur ThomsoneBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Giving clear messages, Jesus taught pragmatically about life's situations as he saw them through metaphorical parables. In Parables on Point , author Gary Arthur Thomson delves into the mind of Jesus and analyzes the meanings and ideas behind the parables.
Parables on Point discovers the real Jesus of Nazareth from the inside out. It peeks through the keyhole of the parables to meet the mind of Jesus utilizing tradition-historical criticism, which studies the textual layers of oral and written traditions of the parables, and archaeology, which digs up the settings in life of the parable.
Thomson examines the parable of the good Samaritan, a story that has symbolized tender loving care down through the ages. He reviews the parable of the sower, in which Jesus implants the idea that the influence of God is like a farmer scattering good seed. He discusses how life is like the parable of the weeds in the wheat-among the grain and the flowers, there are always a few weeds.
Based on thorough research, Parables on Point provide an in-depth examination of the timeless teaching stories of Jesus.
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| Title of Religion eBook: Parables on Point: Meeting the Mind of Jesus | |
| Release Date: 11-13-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Parables on Point: Meeting the Mind of Jesus
Chapter One
Parable of The Sower
The Influence of God is like a sower who goes out, scoops up a handful of seeds from his pouch, and scatters them randomly over the land. Good seeds fall everywhere—some on fertile soil, some on the path, some on rocky outcrops, and some in the fencerow amongst weeds. The reapers gather in a high yield from where ever the good seeds grow—sixty and even a hundred bushels per acre.
The "Influence of God."
Jesus had a poetic mind. He spoke "many things in parables." He usually began:
The Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed ... The Kingdom of Heaven is like a father who had two sons ... The Kingdom is like a rich man who gave a banquet ...
Two thousand years ago, the word Kingdom was familiar in street talk. Jesus and his fellow Galileans lived in the Kingdom of Herod the Great—a puppet kingdom of the Roman Empire. Today the meaning of the word kingdom has changed. The UK is a kingdom in name only. The United Kingdom of Great Britain is now a parliamentary democracy. A kingdom nowadays is a mythic thing like the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney. Disneyland is a fairy tale kingdom.
The Jesus' Seminar refers to the Kingdom of God as God's Imperial Rule. The Seminar has not really improved anything with the word, imperial. Such semantics are dated to the Roman Empire, not the present. Jesus never pictured God as an imperialistic king who ruled in an authoritarian manner.
Some religious cults proclaim a Kingdom of Heaven in apocalyptic terms—the end of the world, a returning messiah, and a final
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