The discussion in class on parables really got me to thinking the other day. I understand that some of the parables Jesus told had obvious allegory. What blew my mind was the allegory that so many of early church fathers tried to "force" into the parable, especially the good samaritan parable. I had almost forgotten about it when I overheard a classmate talking about a story they were reading in an english class. They were talking about symbolism and how sometimes a "cat" is just a "cat". I thought about that in relation to the parables. Sometimes there not some deeper meaning and some try to put more than is actually there into the parable.
Aaron Abbott
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I thought about how people add their thoughts and ideas not JUST to parables, but quite frequently, it is done to the biblical text as a whole. I think that it is very easy for us to speculate about what the Scriptures say, and if we're not careful, we will modify what it says to fit our theology. And of course, we all learned in Bib Interp that the Scriptures should govern our theology and not vice versa.
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