Search results

Do I dare respond to such proficiency? My compliments to the chef, a veritable feast of words

Thank you for taking the time to respond. And yes I should have looked further into the different translations.

Thank you for both your initial response and this one, which bring clarity to my inquiry

Can anyone harmonize (make sense of) Proverbs 26:4 and 26:5?

Yes break out the tool box! Thank you for your observations - food for thought.

Thank you for your informative response. I don't think the woman represents God as metaphors for God are usually masculine (but I could be mistaken). The woman could represent wisdom. And she certainly acts with wisdom to search for her lost coin. While a search through Proverbs found...

Yes respectful disagreement is certainly the better road.

Yes I agree understanding the correct interpretation of Jesus parables is a privilege of His disciples. Still no response to my question.

Thank you for your opinion. I guess we will simply have to agree to disagree.

The Ascended Christ

Thank you for your response. But it does not answer my question: "Metaphorically speaking who does the woman in Luke 15:8 represent?

No he is not a specific person i.e. Farmer Jones. But metaphorically a farmer is always descriptive of a person

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, but connecting the woman/ten coins parable to the sheep in Ezekiel 37: 15-28 is confusing. Especially in light of the context of the conversation in Luke 15 where Jesus is talking to Pharisees/teaches of the Law and other sinners about why He welcomes and...

I agree that Author, audience and themes are important. 99 sheep that were left in the open country .. sin of self-righteousness A women with only 9 of 10 silver coins who does not search - guilty of the sin of self righteousness. A son who shames his father by demanding his share of the...

So you are viewing this passage as prophecy and not a response to the mutterings of the Pharisees/teachers of the Law? Cause the Church had not yet come into being and the Church had not yet received the Holy Spirit. Also there are no lost in Jerusalem above or among those who believe Also...

I think you are correct about silver representing redemption. But what about the coin? It is silver which represents redemption but it is an inanimate object. Typically the Scripture represents people with live items such as sheep. Although Jesus does represent unsaved people as dirt...

I agree a woman who has lost money or jewelry does carefully look, even in the garbage (well actually if she's married she gets her husband to look in the garbage.) So your answer is that she is metaphorically all women?

I don't think that the perfect has come because: "For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known" (1 Corinthians 13:12. I thank God for the Bible but face to face is not descriptive of a...

Agreed but it is a specific event