If we are to look to this parable and take it as it stands, is the ability to reason a talent? Wouldn't the same rules apply to that, as to any other talent? Would ignoring your ability to reason be a sin against God?
2006-07-29 07:22:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reason comes with perspective. People reason given the filters that they hold, such as beliefs, opinions and learned and implicit knowledge. If you haven't been exposed to a theory can you be expected to reason with it?
People do reason. All people. But their individual filters slant the perspective of their reasoning.
2006-07-29 07:58:28 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Babylonians and Sumerians had a system in which there were 60 shekels in a mina and 60 minas in a talent (in Ancient Greece one talent = 26 kg of silver). The Roman talent consisted of 100 libra (pounds) which were smaller in magnitude than the mina.
2006-07-29 14:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everybody has the ability to reason. However, some can reason better than others; that extra ability may be one of their God-given talent(s).
2006-07-29 14:44:09 · answer #3 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Martin Luther advised his contemporaries that "reason must be blinded." He was a well-educated man of his time, and he knew how simple this would be to accomplish: just start lying to people when they're young and keep it up, keep the pressure on. Very few of them will grow into adults who dare to say, "hey, wait a minute...."
2006-07-29 14:36:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The message of the parable is to use whatever gifts God has given you for his greater honor and glory, not for yours, and then trust in God's supernatural love, justice, and provision, to receive your appropriate reward.
The bad servant misused his talent, didn't trust in the righteousness and fairness of his master, and reaped what he sowed.
If we misuse our talents, and fail to trust in God, we will also reap only what we sow, and God wants more than that for us.
2006-07-29 21:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All people reason. The problem is, is that people tend to reason with the mental tools that they have. If they have been educated by religion all their life then this is what they will use to reason with.
2006-07-29 14:28:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋