This Weeks Question (5) Way Late sorry

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One I think (after MUCH research) that I can answer...

A similitude is a type of parable that is a brief, concise, parable based off of things that are typical or recurrent or already accepted as fact/truth.

Although my research shows there are 12... I think the 2 that you are looking for are:

Luke 15:8-10 - The lost coin found (being like the sinner who is saved)
and
Mark 4:26-29 - the growing seed (the seed turning into ripe grain producing fruit similar to the kingdom of God).

BT, I think this one was harder than the last couple... I had never heard that there were different types of parables and the word similitude doesn't lead to parables in a google search.. no good defination for it on dictionary.com ect.

With that said.. I'm glad you put it out there.. it got me to do some digging and searching I would not have otherwise done and I learned something new.

Looking forward to more questions...

God Bless,
Carina

 

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One I think (after MUCH research) that I can answer...

A similitude is a type of parable that is a brief, concise, parable based off of things that are typical or recurrent or already accepted as fact/truth.

Although my research shows there are 12... I think the 2 that you are looking for are:

Luke 15:8-10 - The lost coin found (being like the sinner who is saved)
and
Mark 4:26-29 - the growing seed (the seed turning into ripe grain producing fruit similar to the kingdom of God).

BT, I think this one was harder than the last couple... I had never heard that there were different types of parables and the word similitude doesn't lead to parables in a google search.. no good defination for it on dictionary.com ect.

With that said.. I'm glad you put it out there.. it got me to do some digging and searching I would not have otherwise done and I learned something new.

Looking forward to more questions...

God Bless,
Carina

I think you are correct Carina, this one was way harder than I expected. I apologize to all of the younger Christians who've been banging their heads against the wall. I'm so glad that you spent time digging and that you've learned something new. This is the point of the question of the week!

Ok so now let me give the answer.

This is the definition:

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Similitude:

In the King James version means either "an exact facsimilie", "likeness", or "the form itself"
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This is one reason that I thought it would be so easy... because I found the exact definition in a Bible Encyclopedia. The other reason that I thought it was so easy was because I thought it was common knowledge. I was wrong, sorry. Finally another reason that I thought this was easy was because in my Bible the passage is headed "The Similitudes" .

Ok here are the Similitudes.

Matthew 5:13-14 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
(underline added)

Here we have the two similitudes that I was looking for, which directly follow the Beatitudes. It is the underlined portion that makes them similitudes by definition.

Once again I am sorry that this was was so hard. I promise that tomorrows question for the younger brethren will be a cake-walk.

To make ammends I will double the blessing reward for tomorrows question.

 

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Once again I am sorry that this was was so hard. I promise that tomorrows question for the younger brethren will be a cake-walk.

Don't apologize...it got us to think and learn! That is what you wanted right?

 

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I sure did learn...

but I have a quote from www.pbs.com

All of the parables, that is, all three types, have this in common, that they present an implied comparison between an experience or event from ordinary, everyday life, and a reality of the moral or religious order. The characteristics which distinguish each type from the other two are here described, and will be explained in greater depth in the following chapters.




1. Similitude

The similitude is the most concise type of parable. It briefly narrates a typical or recurrent event from real life. It tells a story which everyone would recognize as a familiar experience. Since it has to do with the recurrent or typical, the similitude is usually told in the present tense, although the past tense is occasionally used. The similitude gains its persuasiveness by recounting what is widely recognized as true. No one, on hearing a similitude, is likely to deny that this is the way life is. Such is how anyone would rejoice on finding a lost coin (Lk 15:8-10); this is how seed always grows to full harvest (Mk 4:26-29). Many of the similitudes in Luke's Gospel begin, "Which of you?" (e.g. Lk 11:5; 14:28, 31), "Or what woman?" (Lk 15:8), "Or what king?" (Lk 14:31). Those in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew often begin by stating the comparison: "The kingdom of God is as if" (e.g. Mk 4:26, 30-31; Mt 13:33). Some twelve similitudes appear in the Synoptic Gospels.

I'm not sure what background the author is from... are similitudes defigned differently by different groups?

curious!

Carina

 

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I sure did learn...

but I have a quote from www.pbs.com


I'm not sure what background the author is from... are similitudes defigned differently by different groups?

curious!

Carina

Hrmm.

I'm going to give you the blessings 'cause two definitions messed me up.

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