Christianity retold
The Unforgiving Debtor is based on Matthew 18: 23-34
A couple of blogs ago, I mentioned two parables that don’t need retelling. The Unforgiving Debtor is a parable that comes very close to ‘doesn’t need retelling’. After all, people still go into debt; they still rack up much more debt than they can ever repay.
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What’s God’s Nation like? Imagine a man who traded in futures. He borrowed some money, from a loan company, to cover a loss. Then he lost more than he had (again!), so he borrowed more money, then more money…
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Can we understand a parable – or at least, can people start to puzzle out its meaning – without any interpretation or ‘translation’ by a preacher? Even if they’ve never read the Bible in their lives, and may have no concept of ‘God’?
In this blog I’ve asked the question ‘Does this parable need retelling?’ a few times. But there are two parables where I’d give an answer of ‘Almost certainly not’.
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