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<blockquote data-quote="Monksailor" data-source="post: 75542939" data-attributes="member: 399882"><p>That may be one point but it is not a socioeconomic parable as much as one of how the man with wealth allowed his heart to love his wealth more than God and his fellow man; no different than a poor man loving his richness of human relationships and not sharing such with a wealthy man or a gifted musician withholding God's blessing from others or ..... The parable is about a person allowing something to become so important to them that they have no time or care to focus upon God or how God wanted them to live. In the concluding exchange he cries out to God from Hades for his brothers to be enlightened supernaturally of such but God responds to him, “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’” This parable's entry situation of the rich man and Lazarus' relationship is akin to the "Good Samaritan" where we have a traveler attacked and left for dead encountered by three passer-by's. It is NOT the details of the players and the situation involved in the stories nearly as much as a Spiritual point Jesus is trying to convey.</p><p></p><p>Each and EVERY one of us, regardless of our economic standing or anything else, are capable of being in the same position of the "Rich man" in this parable. There is an exhaustive amount of reasons why one ignores or just doesn't notice and serve the needs of another in their life for whom they should.</p><p></p><p>The parable of "The God Samaritan" points this out succinctly. A holy priest and a lawyer/scribe were the "bad" people in that parable Christ offered to a lawyer who sought to justify himself in formulating a legalistic loop hole as to who was or wasn't his obligated neighbor. Most forget the setting and purpose of that parable:"But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”" Luke 10:29 ESV. It wasn't one to show us how to be a good person in any way nearly as much as it was to dismiss one's predisposition to exercise their own biases in determining who was their obligated neighbor which is exactly the reason Jesus responded with that parable to the lawyer. Jesus' conclusive query to the lawyer in this parable clearly shows this: "Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” Luke 10:36 ESV Yet, most think that this is a parable whose <strong>main</strong> focus is about being a good person or being merciful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Monksailor, post: 75542939, member: 399882"] That may be one point but it is not a socioeconomic parable as much as one of how the man with wealth allowed his heart to love his wealth more than God and his fellow man; no different than a poor man loving his richness of human relationships and not sharing such with a wealthy man or a gifted musician withholding God's blessing from others or ..... The parable is about a person allowing something to become so important to them that they have no time or care to focus upon God or how God wanted them to live. In the concluding exchange he cries out to God from Hades for his brothers to be enlightened supernaturally of such but God responds to him, “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’” This parable's entry situation of the rich man and Lazarus' relationship is akin to the "Good Samaritan" where we have a traveler attacked and left for dead encountered by three passer-by's. It is NOT the details of the players and the situation involved in the stories nearly as much as a Spiritual point Jesus is trying to convey. Each and EVERY one of us, regardless of our economic standing or anything else, are capable of being in the same position of the "Rich man" in this parable. There is an exhaustive amount of reasons why one ignores or just doesn't notice and serve the needs of another in their life for whom they should. The parable of "The God Samaritan" points this out succinctly. A holy priest and a lawyer/scribe were the "bad" people in that parable Christ offered to a lawyer who sought to justify himself in formulating a legalistic loop hole as to who was or wasn't his obligated neighbor. Most forget the setting and purpose of that parable:"But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”" Luke 10:29 ESV. It wasn't one to show us how to be a good person in any way nearly as much as it was to dismiss one's predisposition to exercise their own biases in determining who was their obligated neighbor which is exactly the reason Jesus responded with that parable to the lawyer. Jesus' conclusive query to the lawyer in this parable clearly shows this: "Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” Luke 10:36 ESV Yet, most think that this is a parable whose [B]main[/B] focus is about being a good person or being merciful. [/QUOTE]
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