@sonship saidYou take that view because it suits your twisted personality, and it matches your selfish nature. Had you truly believe in Jesus Christ you would believe the Gospel Message of Jesus which centered around a life of selflessness. It is the same thing you have done with all of the teachings of Christ, twisted and manipulated them so that you can promote a doctrine of living in sin the reward for which is eternal life, and becoming deified.
I believe the Parable of the Good Samaritan points to Jesus Himself.
He as the Son of God, was the Good Samaritan.
This is unlike the average interpretation that that Good Samaritan pointed to the average belevolent actions of a sympathetic person. Jesus, was teaching that He was that Good Samaritan, in my view.
@sonship saidIsn't the parable about the "Good Samaritan" about how people should love everyone, including their enemies?
I believe the Parable of the Good Samaritan points to Jesus Himself.
He as the Son of God, was the Good Samaritan.
If the "Good Samaritan" is now supposedly Jesus, that wrecks the value of the parable altogether.
What's so special about someone who is allegedly God incarnate "loving everyone, including his enemies"?
Isn't the parable about human beings behaving as Jesus wishes them to?
You are trampling over one of the clearest and most edifying parables in the Bible for some obscure ideological theory.
Now you want to make the character in it Jesus, just because you were recently backed into a bit of a corner over the use of the word "good" and you want to justify adding words to change the meaning of the Bible elsewhere?
@fmf saidI don't think sonship thought it through.
If the "Good Samaritan" is now supposedly Jesus, that wrecks the value of the parable altogether.
@sonship saidIs good the same as righteous? (Bearing in mind Noah was righteous).
@Ghost-of-a-Duke
Yes.
Was Noah therefore God?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidHe is not capable of thinking anything through. He is just a brainless mouthpiece for his cult leader.
I don't think sonship thought it through.
@fmf saidGood point. TU from me FMF.
Isn't the parable about the "Good Samaritan" about how people should love everyone, including their enemies?
If the "Good Samaritan" is now supposedly Jesus, that wrecks the value of the parable altogether.
What's so special about someone who is allegedly God incarnate "loving everyone, including his enemies"?
Isn't the parable about human beings behaving as Jesus wis ...[text shortened]... f the word "good" and you want to justify adding words to change the meaning of the Bible elsewhere?
Isn't the parable about the "Good Samaritan" about how people should love everyone, including their enemies?
If that is what you get from it that is fine.
Luke focus is on the perfect humanity of the man Jesus.
Jesus was the perfect man.
He was also the rejected "Samaritan" as illegal, not really qualified to be the Messiah. In john's Gospel they said He was a Samaritan and had a demon.
That there would be a parable of Jesus saying, in essence "Go and do as I am doing" has its context and place. Luke establishes Jesus as the most perfect human being that ever lived.
If the "Good Samaritan" is now supposedly Jesus, that wrecks the value of the parable altogether.
You may think that because it doesn't matter to you that Jesus lived, died, and rose for our redemption. As long as you muster up some moral energy to do what He taught, that is all that concerns you.
But Jesus, the rejected "Samaritan," found the neglected people robbed and beaten up and ignored by religion. And He poured in the Holy Spirit into them to heal their wounds. The oil signifies the Holy Spirit.
"And he came to him and bound up his wounds and poured oil and wine on them. "
This represent Jesus pouring the Holy Spirit with the divinity of God being dispensed into the man condemned by the law of Moses.
He bourht that man to "the inn" means He brings the saved into the church.
And He charges the Christians in the church "the inn" to take care of the forgiven sinner who now is healing under the oil of the Holy Spirit and the wine of God's sweet divine life.
When Jesus comes back in His second coming He will recompense the faithful Christians with reward for taking CARE of those whom He has saved and brought into the church.
So I believe the certain Samaritan there (aka the Good Samaritan) represents Jesus Christ. The one beat up, robbed, and neglected by the religious ones are you andf I as typical sinners condemned by legalists, neglected by self righteous religionists.
What's so special about someone who is allegedly God incarnate "loving everyone, including his enemies"?
Isn't the parable about human beings behaving as Jesus wishes them to?
You are trampling over one of the clearest and most edifying parables in the Bible for some obscure ideological theory.
Now you want to make the character in it Jesus, just because you were recently backed into a bit of a corner over the use of the word "good" and you want to justify adding words to change the meaning of the Bible elsewhere?
For years I have considered the certain Samaritan to be symbolic of Jesus. But I will be honest that at FIRST, I did not take it this way.
When the OTHER details of the parable were studied carefully, eventually I got convinced that Jesus was pointing to His OWN work in salvation, church preparation, return, and rewarding of His faithful merciful and caring believers.
I have to stop writing this morning right now.
No time even to check typos right now.
@sonship saidLiving proof that a man can study himself into stupidity.
@FMFIsn't the parable about the "Good Samaritan" about how people should love everyone, including their enemies?
If that is what you get from it that is fine.
Luke focus is on the perfect humanity of the man Jesus.
Jesus was the perfect man.
He was also the rejected "Samaritan" as illegal, not really qualified to be the Messiah. ...[text shortened]... ievers.
I have to stop writing this morning right now.
No time even to check typos right now.
You are suffering from a condition called 'confident ignorance'
Only Luke records the parable of the Good Samaritan.
It appears that the lawyer who asked Jesus the question mainly onlly wanted to
justify himself.
"But he, wanting to justify himself. said to Jesus, And who is mu neighbor?" (v.29)
On the surface it seems like he wanted to know the way to eternal life.
Jesus told had him recite the law of loving God with the whole soul, whole heart, whole strength, whole whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself. (v.27) [/b]
His reply was a self justifying one meant to poke a whole in the logic of the law of Moses - " . . . wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, and who is my neighbor."
Lots of questions about the Bible are really just someone's desire for self justification. Ie. "I am alright. I have no need. Actually the law of Moses leaves us all guilty for no one is absolute for God EXCEPT the Man Jesus - the perfect man and center of Luke's portrayal of Jesus.
@sonship saidHow bizarrely convoluted this is.
@FMFIsn't the parable about the "Good Samaritan" about how people should love everyone, including their enemies?
If that is what you get from it that is fine.
Luke focus is on the perfect humanity of the man Jesus.
Jesus was the perfect man.
He was also the rejected "Samaritan" as illegal, not really qualified to be the Messiah. ...[text shortened]... ievers.
I have to stop writing this morning right now.
No time even to check typos right now.
Jesus, taking up the question, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who having both stripped him and beaten him, went away, leaving him half dead." (v. 30)
The "certain man" represents a man falling from the peace represented by Jerusalem which means "foundation of peace". He has fallen and is headed for a place of curse - Jericho. Jericho was the place God had cursed forever. (Joshua 6:26; I Kings 16:34)
The certain man is the self justifying lawyer. as a sinner who had fallen from the foundation of peace to a condition of about to suffer the curse upon sin.
The certain Samritan represents the Lord Jesus, the Savior who has the purest and highest morality of all men. The robbers were the legalists who abused the law of Moses and stripped people leaving them in a dead condition. This is the condition Paul found himself in in Romans 7:11,13) - beat up, racked up, and powerless (dead).
"For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. " (Rom. 7:11)
"Did then that which is good become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin did, that it might be shown to be sin by working out death in me through that which is good, that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful." (v.13)
Paul was very much like that self righteous, swelf justifying lawyer. In the light of Christ he realized he was powerless to love God with absoluteness - the whole hear, soul, mind, trength and the neighbor as himself.
Paul, and the self justifying lawyer, and all of us sinners are the beat up ones headed for the curse, needing the Good Samaritan of Jesus to save us when religion cannot.
The parable is very much reflected in the life of Saul a Christ rejecting, Christ persecuting Pharisee.
In Romans 7 he is beat up and left half dead because the sin nature is only activated and enlivened through the commandment of God's law.
He is wretched -
"Wretched man that I am ! Who will deliver me from the body of this death." (v.24)
The answer is govin just before chapter 7 closes - "Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (25a)
In the next chapter Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus coming into him to free him from self condemnation.
"There is now then now condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me in Chrtist Jerus from the law of sin and of death." (8:1,2)
This experience and teaching of Paul very much reflects the parable of the Good Samaritan pouring in oil and wine on the wounds of the beaten up certain man. Christ dispenses the Spirit of divine life which corresponds to the oil and wine given to the wounded half dead man.
The certain Samaritan represents Jesus the rejected and seemingly unlikely Savior who is in fact the perfect man with the perfect morality, kindness.