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- Dec 15, 2021
I enjoy the Parable of the Vineyard Workers, the Ten Virgins, the Two Sons, the Workers, and basically anything between Matthew 20-25. All of those go over people working towards Salvation, the worthy being unworthy and the unworthy worthy due to actions.
Nick is incredibly self-serving in his deeper analysis and incredibly basic on them. The first two parables are literally just relating to us how valuable a soul is to God via examples that people of the time would understand. The Sheep is one is funny because I had an African priest who was a Shepard go over how awful sheep are in a homily once. How carrying one on your shoulder will get you pissed on and kicked because sheep are dumb assholes. They also have shit on their flanks. The entire thing is just saying how valuable to God we are and the lengths he’ll go to try to get us back to the flock. These aren’t hard readings.
The Prodigal Son is one that I have heard hundreds of times. I’ve had actual Rabbi’s go over it because they like it. The story works because it says many things and means all of them. Most parables are this way.
I hate this faggot for not understand David or Solomon. Both get punished for their womanizing. Solomon loses his gifts due to chasing foreign pussy. Both do humble themselves with Solomon dedicating Pslams and Sirrach to the pointlessness of pleasure seeking.
He also doesn’t understand the Pharisees. Christ had more in common with the early Essenes. The Pharisees were not as a whole bad. They were more Conservative than the Saducees (who depending on the source were the ancient equivalent of “Culturally Jewish”), but more Moderate than the Zealots.
I have no idea what his obsession with the Temple is. The Pharisees did have a duty to minister to the Jews outside of Jerusalem. The issue was they were failing to do that, but that goes into a whole issue about Jewish identity during the 2nd Temple and Roman occupation.
Nick is incredibly self-serving in his deeper analysis and incredibly basic on them. The first two parables are literally just relating to us how valuable a soul is to God via examples that people of the time would understand. The Sheep is one is funny because I had an African priest who was a Shepard go over how awful sheep are in a homily once. How carrying one on your shoulder will get you pissed on and kicked because sheep are dumb assholes. They also have shit on their flanks. The entire thing is just saying how valuable to God we are and the lengths he’ll go to try to get us back to the flock. These aren’t hard readings.
The Prodigal Son is one that I have heard hundreds of times. I’ve had actual Rabbi’s go over it because they like it. The story works because it says many things and means all of them. Most parables are this way.
I hate this faggot for not understand David or Solomon. Both get punished for their womanizing. Solomon loses his gifts due to chasing foreign pussy. Both do humble themselves with Solomon dedicating Pslams and Sirrach to the pointlessness of pleasure seeking.
He also doesn’t understand the Pharisees. Christ had more in common with the early Essenes. The Pharisees were not as a whole bad. They were more Conservative than the Saducees (who depending on the source were the ancient equivalent of “Culturally Jewish”), but more Moderate than the Zealots.
I have no idea what his obsession with the Temple is. The Pharisees did have a duty to minister to the Jews outside of Jerusalem. The issue was they were failing to do that, but that goes into a whole issue about Jewish identity during the 2nd Temple and Roman occupation.
