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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 19:17:45 GMT
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- Scott S Parish (parsons@cis.ksu.edu) wrote:
- :
- : mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
-
- [most of the parable deleted]
-
- : >To which the father replies, "How dare you question my motives? Who
- : >brought you into the world? Were you there when I made your mother
- : >squeal with glee? Who supplies food on your table and a roof over
- : >your head? Who has showered you with presents on your birthdays and
- : >who as bought your books so you could learn?"
- :
- : Then you ask if we would like that kind of father.
-
- No I didn't. I asked "How would you answer such a father?"
-
- : First, I think
- : all of our parents have responded in a similar fashion (just maybe
- : not with the same rhetorical questioning). Who here can say that
- : when you asked your father why he did or did not do something your
- : father did not respond, "Because" at least once?
-
- I can (or maybe it's just selective amnesia :^) ). Seriously, my father went
- out of his way to explain things to his children and demanded that we explain
- our actions to him ("I don't know" was never a valid response wrt our own
- actions).
-
- Who here can say that
-
- : That happened
- : quite often when I was young as I'm sure it happened in others
- : households. Maybe not exact manner of response Job got, but very
- : similar. So before you go exaggerating the audacity and "injustice"
- : of the response, take off your blinders and look around.
-
- The response is arrogant, not unjust. The action (or inaction) was unjust.
-
- :
- : Next, you completely leave out what happens after the father questions
- : his son. I'll finish your parable for you...
- :
- : "And after the questioning, the father took his youngest child into
- : the house. He cleaned up his son's wounds, fed and clothed him--
- : restoring what the older brother destroyed. From that day forward
- : the father blessed his son more than he ever had before."
-
- Because the father had a guilty concience.
- You still don't answer my question "How would you respond to such a father?"
-
- :
- : --
- : Scott Parish | The Truth is still the Truth | John 14:6
- : parsons@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu | even if you choose to ignore it. |
-
- My parable is a true parallel of Job, even if you choose to ignore it.
- --
- Mike McAngus |You are a fluke of the Universe. You have no
- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear it
- The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
-