rainee
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Well, first go look up the definition of a parable.
Does the definition refer you toward the word parabola rather than toward the word parallel?
The word in math means something else so that is actually misleading - but at one time the word "parabola" came from the word "parable.
That means "parabola" can't tell you what a parable is because "parable" is what was in mind when the word "parabola" was first created and used.
However, "parallel" does help. It goes along side. It never touches but it goes along side. Now if you see spiritual worlds you don't need parables
but if you are human then a parable is communicating something we can't see by saying something that goes along side that invisible truth
for, perhaps, a short ways. Maybe a very short way, I don't know cuz - well - I'm human and have no idea how far it can go. But all who believe and have studied parables have agreed - they only are intended to go part of the way.
So go back to "parabola" the "mirror-symmetrical curve" - and see.
One side of the curve mirrors the other side. So there ya go. Its sides go along mirroring each other all the way around. Nice.
But what about parables which is where that whole idea came from?
The Lord would often speak in parables...
Matthew 13:10-11
Now here is the interesting thing: The disciples did not therefore understand the parables just because He said what He did, no.
He then explained the parables so they could know.
And that is how I think it has been for 2000 years or so.
I think some get little bits and pass them around and then down and generation after generation we build on what has been given.
Also inherent in the entire idea is that there is to be growth:
Matthew 13:12
Which means two things that I can think of: A) You can't grow if you know it all, and B) No one knows it all.
There is another problem that I think is inherent: The Word is alive and active. It can mean perhaps more than one thing during different times.
Deuteronomy 25:4 is one example. I believe it means what it says at appropriate times.
But I also believe 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 is to be taken seriously.
Anybody want to correct or add to this before I go on?
I would appreciate it if you want to say some something - if you did!
Does the definition refer you toward the word parabola rather than toward the word parallel?
The word in math means something else so that is actually misleading - but at one time the word "parabola" came from the word "parable.
That means "parabola" can't tell you what a parable is because "parable" is what was in mind when the word "parabola" was first created and used.
However, "parallel" does help. It goes along side. It never touches but it goes along side. Now if you see spiritual worlds you don't need parables
but if you are human then a parable is communicating something we can't see by saying something that goes along side that invisible truth
for, perhaps, a short ways. Maybe a very short way, I don't know cuz - well - I'm human and have no idea how far it can go. But all who believe and have studied parables have agreed - they only are intended to go part of the way.
So go back to "parabola" the "mirror-symmetrical curve" - and see.
One side of the curve mirrors the other side. So there ya go. Its sides go along mirroring each other all the way around. Nice.
But what about parables which is where that whole idea came from?
The Lord would often speak in parables...
Matthew 13:10-11
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” 11 Jesus answered them, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.
Now here is the interesting thing: The disciples did not therefore understand the parables just because He said what He did, no.
He then explained the parables so they could know.
And that is how I think it has been for 2000 years or so.
I think some get little bits and pass them around and then down and generation after generation we build on what has been given.
Also inherent in the entire idea is that there is to be growth:
Matthew 13:12
12 For whoever has, to him more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.
Which means two things that I can think of: A) You can't grow if you know it all, and B) No one knows it all.
There is another problem that I think is inherent: The Word is alive and active. It can mean perhaps more than one thing during different times.
Deuteronomy 25:4 is one example. I believe it means what it says at appropriate times.
But I also believe 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 is to be taken seriously.
Anybody want to correct or add to this before I go on?
I would appreciate it if you want to say some something - if you did!