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I agree. I believe he wanted to go as far as possible, so nobody would know him, so he can live his life however he pleases to, without having to give explanations. Something like that verse from a song "with the lights off, it's less dangerous". In our case, in a distant country, it's less shameful and less compromising. If the story happened today, the prodigal son, would be a rich boy from the province that wants to "make it in New York", or wants to live a life of debauchery in Las Vegas.
Anyway, the distant country is a country where nobody knows you, nobody cares about what you do, you do not feel ashamed about what you do because everybody else is doing it too etc. The distant country is a country that is "alive" in sin.
Anyway, the distant country is a country where nobody knows you, nobody cares about what you do, you do not feel ashamed about what you do because everybody else is doing it too etc. The distant country is a country that is "alive" in sin.
no. I do not think this at all. He was just to get out of his fathers influence, to go to a place he truly could say he did it in his own. it was a pride issue,
again, when you leave your fathers place, you are in a far country, your in enemy territory.
So, you believe that the son always had the father in his mind, not only when he came to his senses?
yes,
I did when I left my family and went to the military,
I did when I left God.
How do you understand that "he came into his senses"?
In My case, a friend I led to christ as a teen called me, And I finally heard my fathers voice, and said I must come back (I hit rock bottom) I know for a fact if he called me any sooner, I would not have heard him, god knew exactly when to call me using my friend.
I haven't read any comment about we being "literally dead" or about we "no longer being the father's sons"...
I mean, besides you, no one put those words in sentences.
I mean, besides you, no one put those words in sentences.