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The Parable of the Sower

https://johnager.co.uk/2023/07/15/the-parable-of-the-sower/

> The Parable of the Sower is a well-known parable found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

#Bible #Christianity #Parables

Lying here, windows open, SF fireworks booming I am flashing back to a year ago… I was at what would be, to-date the sickest I’ve been. I was hallucinating. I hadn’t left the house in six months; hadn’t left the bed in @ 4 months. I thought that everything Octavia Butler wrote about in “parables” had happened. Feels similar tonight. #octaviabutler #parables

Wer traurig ist, weil Octavia Butlers Parables nie vollendet wurden: Ich lese gerade ihre ältere Trilogie Lilith's Brood (aka Xenogenesis, aka Gene Stealer), und erkenne darin schon sehr viel von dem wieder, was ich letztes Jahr bei meinen Recherchen fürs Science Fiction Jahr über das nie vollendete Parables of the Trickster rausgefunden habe. Ich will nicht sagen, dass sie sich wiederholt hätte, das hätte sie mit Sicherheit nicht, aber dass das große Thema Change und Adaptibility da so zentral ist, dass ich eine Ahnung kriege, wohin uns die Parables geführt hätten. #OctaviaEButler #Parables #EmergentStrategy

#Cookbooks #Fiction #SciFi #NonFiction #Parables anything you feel is a good read for to celebrate or commemorate #Today .

The BabelStone blog has been taken down, sadly, but its amazing galleries of hundreds of Towers of Babel across three time spans are archived here:

Medieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20120123045214/https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2007/01/72-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

Post-medieval: https://web.archive.org/web/20120126064738/http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2008/12/72-more-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

Modern: https://web.archive.org/web/20120123164923/https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2009/01/72-modern-views-of-tower-of-babel.html

#art #ArtHistory #painting #medieval #TowerOfBabel #languages #linguistics #Bible #parables

The Prodigal’s Older Brother – Luke 15:28-30

The parable of the prodigal son warns us against being like the older brother who refused to embrace the one who was lost but now is found.

https://aclayjar.net/2023/03/the-prodigals-older-brother/

#BibleStudy #Luke #Parables #Rejoice #Salvation

I have a new article up where I look into the origins of the parable of the Sower in Mark 4. The entire chapter draws upon a rich heritage of parables found in the Old Testament and Jewish apocalyptic literature, but there are parallels in the Pauline epistles as well. #Bible #Christianity #parables #deconstruction #HigherCriticism #religion

https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/the-origins-of-the-parable-of-the-sower-and-other-seedy-riddles/

#sdtps And the I began to #speak to those gathered about in #parables.
“There was not in the too long ago, a #ruler who was given to construct a #magnificent #harbour.
And so he called his #engineers together, and asked them to come up with some #plans, and he told them he wanted it #built within a certain #timeframe, and that if it looked like they were not going to be able to #complete it within that time, they would all be executed. #TIBTM133

#sdtps And with many such #parables the I was #speaking the #word to them, as long as they were #willing and able to #listen. To the crowds, the I would not say anything without a parable; but in #private to my #disciples, the I would elucidate many of the things the I had made #reference to in the parables. #TIBTM43

#sdtps And when the I was #alone, the Twelve were asking the me about the #parables. And them the I elucidated for them, and also says,
“To you the #mystery of the indwelling of the God among #people has been given, but to those #outside: outside the Twelve, all things are in parables.”
But they were not with fully #understanding the #parable of the #sower. #TIBTM38

#sdtps And the I taught the crowds many things by #parables, and in my #teaching says to them:
“Listen!
Behold, the #sower went out to sow. And it came about in the #process of sowing that some #seed fell beside the way, and the #birds came and ate it up. And other seed fell on the rocky place, where it did not have much #soil, and it sprang up immediately, because it had no #depth of soil. And when the #sun arose, it was scorched, and it dried up, because it had no taproot. #TIBTM36

#sdtps And the I was in a large #house, and the #Torah #scholars who had come up from #Jerusalem said,
“He has Baalzibbul,” and,
“By the #king of mind predators he drives out the mind predators.”
And calling them to the me, the I spoke to them in #parables:
“How can Predadictatorial drive out Predadictatorial? #TIBTM29

I have undertaken an experiment wherein I outline a controversial topic and instruct ChatGPT to create a sermon that discusses it. The results have frequently been thought provoking and often hilarious, at least in the context of my own beliefs. I recommend this exercise to curious souls.

#ChatGPT #Theology #Parables #Sermons #AI #BadJokes #GreatJokes #Humor #Blasphemy #StoryConceptualization
#IdeaEncapsulation

Prodigals need to leave the pigpen | Forthright Fellowship Room http://fellowshiproom.com/prodigals-need-to-leave-the-pigpen/

> Poet Robert Frost said, somewhat cynically, “Home is a place where, when you have to go there they have to take you in.” Maybe that was the rule in his home but it is not universally true.

#repentance #parables

Don Garlington, in an article about Mt 5.22:

> Yet a finer point can be placed on this parable: the comportment of the foolish maidens stems from their practical indifference to the consequences of the groom’s arrival. It is as though they reasoned, “even if our lamps are not burning, he will let us participate in the ceremonies anyway.” But they were wrong, and in this regard the foolish girls are like the wicked servant of Matt 24:48–51, who rationalizes that the master is delayed (and perhaps not even coming), and then proceeds to beat his fellow servants and get drunk.

#prepare #judgment #parables