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Good point!!! Jesus spoke many many parables concerning the coming Kingdom to the Jews and if they couldn't understand most of them, far be it from me to say I always can. I have a hugh study just on the Covenantle parable of the "rich man/lazarus" in Luke 16, and it was while translating it from the Greek that so much more was revealed, and why I like going directly to the original language. Pretty awsome!!!!I am suggesting that Muhammad accepted the story of the flood in the Hebrew Scriptures but used it to make a point of his own.
http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/abraham/abrahams_bosom.htm
........And yet, any preacher or believer that I know will answer that the story of the lost coin, as well as the prodigal son, were also parables. Then why was the singular used - "this parable"? It should be clear to any thinking mind that all these stories were ONE PARABLE, like the facets of a diamond, as they turn each scintillates with new brilliance. Each was illustrating a view point of one great truth, and together they compose a whole.
And this parabolic discourse of Jesus is continued into chapter sixteen of Luke, including the story of the rich man and Lazarus. The truth is that all five stories are each a fractional part of the complete parable, and when we read, "He spoke this parable unto them," this embraces the entire collection of symbol-pictures which in their completeness constituted the parable which He spoke. It is a careless assumption and an unfounded assertion to argue that the story of the rich man and Lazarus is not a parable!..........
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