2006-12-29 10:30:57 · 18 answers · asked by Mudcat 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
he couldn't be to direct in his message or the Romans would have killed him...oh wait never mind
2006-12-29 10:45:31 · answer #1 · answered by goldenbrowngod 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fixated? From about 3 years' worth of His ministry, we have only a few (really) parables that He gave. Go look at the Beatitudes; those aren't parables. He taught in many ways, including parables. The perceived fixation comes from our attention to them. We pay much more attention to His parables than to His plain-talk teachings. Hmmmm, maybe that's why He used them. I don't think He was disguising anything, but trying to get folks to understand.
Being the almighty and omniscient God (fully God and fully human at the same time, which only He ever was) He understood what was in the hearts and minds of everyone to whom He spoke. He knew what they were and weren't understanding, and He knew when the question was just a trap to trick Him. (The people didn't know or understand that He was God, so they thought they could.) I find it fun to go look at how His answers differed, depending on to whom He was speaking and on what He knew the person was thinking.
Sometimes He spoke plainly, sometimes He asked questions, sometimes He spoke in parables. Go read the Gospels again and see which He chose for whom. It's fascinating when you analyze it that way.
I hope you meant this as a serious question, so I answered it as such. If it was just a rhetorical venting, sorry.
2006-12-29 18:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by thejanith 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus spoke to his people with parables. He explained the reason and much of the Bible is written the same way. God's people worship in spirit and truth and have become spiritual through faith. We know God through spirit he is not known by flesh. Those that say they can only believe what they see with there physical eyes tend to be Athiest.
2006-12-29 18:50:13 · answer #3 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is said that he spoke in parables for the benefit of the simple people that could not understand his usual teachings, but the problem is this, I have known several ministers, preachers, and priests and they all agree that some of the hardest things in the new testament to understand are the parables, so you might very well be correct.
2006-12-29 18:42:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
How sad that all of the above respondents gave completely unBiblical answers. Jesus Himself explained why He spoke in parables:
His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant. And He said, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY MAY NOT UNDERSTAND. - Luke 8:9-10
Jesus spoke in parable so that only His elect would understand. This may be politically incorrect, but it is Biblically correct.
2006-12-29 18:45:43 · answer #5 · answered by 5solas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's funny, His disciples asked the same thing. His agenda was to make a point in ways that our little human minds could understand it as well as making it last forever. Also, there is often more than one point to the parables, condensing much of the knowledge God wanted to share since Jesus didn't have that much time.
2006-12-29 18:44:30 · answer #6 · answered by BrutalBaby 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus used parables as a fulfillment of the Old Testament. It would take "spiritual ears" to hear and understand the parables.
Parables were a mainstay of many teachings in Judaism.
2006-12-29 18:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because that if he had spoken the "TRUTH" the human mind wouldn't be able to comprehend it. So therefore, he spoke in parables that related to the people of the time. It was about reaching into the hearts of the people and communicating to them the message.
2006-12-29 18:48:49 · answer #8 · answered by doughmuffins 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A parable is an earthly story to support a heavenly truth.
2006-12-29 18:47:48 · answer #9 · answered by bbjones9 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When he spoke in parables he always explained them in the same chapter. Nothing was hidden, or said to hide truths from certain people.
Speaking in parables helped those who didn't understand or believe in him relate what he meant to everyday life. It was the perfect soul-winning approach to an unsaved person and a good example to a simple Christian or new unlearned Christian.
2006-12-29 18:38:38 · answer #10 · answered by carriespnc 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Jesus knew that if He tried to explain heaven as it really is, the mind could not comprehend it. So He talked to them in parables having to do with farming, vinyards, etc. Nothing sinister about that.
grace2u
2006-12-29 18:37:57 · answer #11 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋