The difference between a fairy tale and a sea story: a fairy tale begins with "once upon a time" and ends with "...and they lived happily ever after." The sea story begins with "this is no dirt" and ends with "...and it's been screwed up ever since." On the story of the Prodigal son we have much rooms for sea stories...
1. The prodigal son is not in the bible but is sea story terminology
2. The description of riotous living is sea story
3. The time with harlots is sea story
And even with the elder son we have one attempting to generate sea stories on his younger brother.
31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. - Luke 15
To make a point here is that sea stories are very destructive, generated mainly by elder Christians like the one in this story.
1. You can spend your lifetime doing good, mess up one time and they will forever remember it.
2. They will take the smallest events and generate large talk over it.
3. They do not wish the younger well
4. They can be very critical
5. Very ready to generate sea stories - Which can destroy a church
6. Hard workers normally looking out for their own interests
7. Very easily offended and very hard to forget about the offense
But... The Father did not wish to generate sea stories over either son, the ends were to live happily ever after.
1. The prodigal son is not in the bible but is sea story terminology
2. The description of riotous living is sea story
3. The time with harlots is sea story
And even with the elder son we have one attempting to generate sea stories on his younger brother.
31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. - Luke 15
To make a point here is that sea stories are very destructive, generated mainly by elder Christians like the one in this story.
1. You can spend your lifetime doing good, mess up one time and they will forever remember it.
2. They will take the smallest events and generate large talk over it.
3. They do not wish the younger well
4. They can be very critical
5. Very ready to generate sea stories - Which can destroy a church
6. Hard workers normally looking out for their own interests
7. Very easily offended and very hard to forget about the offense
But... The Father did not wish to generate sea stories over either son, the ends were to live happily ever after.
