Religious Conservatives Don't Fully Understand the Good Samaritan

Dale said:

You say that Jesus is the Samaritan and that the Samaritan's promise to return and pay the bill is the promise of Jesus to the church to return, the Second Coming. One problem is that we don't need the parable to tell us these things, they are said more plainly elsewhere. If the Samaritan's promise to the innkeeper is a promise of the Second Coming, why isn't the promise made to the injured man, if he represents those who believe in Christ?

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Figurative reinforce spiritual truths. We retain information through it being repeated. How many times did you repeat the multiplication tables?

2 Pet 12-13 - Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even thought your already know them, and have been established in the truth with is present with you. I consider it right as long as I am in this earthly dwelling, to stir you up by way of reminder.

How many times have you read a verse 10 times or more, then one day you read it and you understand it better?

The promise is made to the church(the inn). Every inn needs workers to make its guest more comfortable. We are the woekers in the inn. The Samaritan brought the injured man to the church. The promise is to all in the church, which includes the injured man.

Douglas Hendrickson said:

I don't know what a "major therm" is (thermometer?), but I do know there are different things often referred to as "sex."
If by "sex" you mean coitus, I agree with your last statement. I am presently discussing things like kissing at Dating WITHOUT FORNICATION

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https://www.christianforums.com/threads/dating-without-fornication.8037426/

IMO necking is not sex.

Once upon a time your "planet earth" was thought to be the center of the universe, with the solar system going around it. So what "most people" may have done or do is not the only thing to be looked at when seeking truth.

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Those men were ignorance of science and therefore developed an incorrect, non-Biblical doctrine. Thankfully it has been corrected.

Do you really think that most people have much sex in their lives, whether that is coitus, or something less inwardly "full of ravening and wickedness"? I identify the ravenous appetites referred to in Luke 11:39 as being useful ways of thinking about pregnancy and disease.

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movies, TV, music, books are filled with sex. IMO these outlets have made sex an obsession in America. Look at how many celebraties and politician have been scandalize by improper sex. That was unheard of 50 years ago. There use to be a censor board that could have a movie banned. It is no longer in existence. Now anything goes, just put the right label on it.

Luke 11:39 is not about sex or disease. It is about hypocrisy.

Pharisees don't want us even to touch each other (a good thing in the case of "same-sex," I would suggest), to keep clean away from anything sexual unless within marriage.
I suspect that is foolishness and a wholesale denial of loving love.

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The Bible allows touching and kissing but only sex for those who are married(man and woman) not same sex sex.