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1 | Why identify the cities and not the man? | Luke 10:30 | Mommapbs | 142094 | ||
Although one could call this speculation, I hope you maight consider looking at the story on the Good Samaritan (Luke 10)in a different light. In my time with the Lord I was reading 1 Cor 13 - on love. Without (L)love we are but a clanging cymbal . . . God is Love and "(L)love never fails"; therefore without GOD, all our attempts to please God or affect self-rescue will fail. This led me to see the parable of the Good Samaritan in a new light. Too often we just view this story as how we are to relate to others, but I suspect that there is much more that God would have us consider here! Consider this: Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." Luke 10:25-27 v 29 Who is My neighbor? (I have purposely altered the text here.) God is Love. God is in perfect community with Himself and expresses this Love outward. . . . For God so loved the world . . . we love because He first loved us . . .Which causes us to reread the greatest commandment as such: Love the Lord with all Thy heart (as manifest in the Trinity). . .and Thy neighbor as Thyself. . . WE are God's neighbor. We are in Jerusalem; we are in community with God. Man's fall is captured in the decision to travel from His presence to Jericho. And the two robbers are Satan and Sin - they leave us for dead. We are not rescued by religion or works (the priest or the Levite) - we are rescued by Jesus - the Samaritan; the rejected One. (Interesting that we often refer to this as the story of the Good Samaritan, yet we fail to remember that only God is Good!) Earlier this week God prompted me to ponder the response of the "wounded man." Imo, Jesus does not tell us how the man responded because we have "free-will." And this is the point: we are to ask, "Who is my Neighbor?" - My Neighbor is the One who shows mercy. Amazing Grace! mommapbs |
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2 | Why identify the cities and not the man? | Luke 10:30 | DocTrinsograce | 142095 | ||
Hi, Momma... how are you? I don't think your analogy stretches things too far. In fact, John Gill (from way back in the 1700's) made some similar observations. Of course, we need to keep in mind the primary question that the parable was intended to answer: Who is my neighbor? That was what Christ was answering and he used terms with which His audience would identify. The story of the Good Samaritan is what Biblical scholars call a "true parable" (as opposed to parables that are called similitudes or epigrams) -- i.e., a story. Fee and Stuart in "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth" state that parables should be studied as follows: (1) read it over and over, (2) identify the points of reference intended by Jesus that would have been picked up by the original hearers, and (3) try to determine how the original hearers would have identified with the story. Christ was indirectly answering the question of the expert in the Law, but He was more directly unveiling the smug, self-righteousness of the Jews. Remember the two that pass by: they represented the religious order of the day. They taught that almsgiving was the way in which love was shown to your neighbor. By choosing a Samaritan as the one who actually shows compassion, Christ was picking one of the most loathed of people by the Jews. Think of it this way to get the feel for it: What if instead of a priest it was a modern evangelist? What if instead of a Levite, it was a professor from a prominent evangelical seminary? What if instead of a Samaritan, it was an atheism activist. Do you start to get the sense of the impact of this story? We can speculate... and we ought to speculate... and we ought to see patterns. We just need to recognize these things are one step removed from scripture itself, consequently having less authority. The Bible says no more and no less than what was originally meant by the author (or, in this case, the speaker) in the passage in question. In Him, Doc |
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