"These parables are still relevant today" Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show that you have thought about different points of view. You must refer to Christianity in your answer.

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“These parables are still relevant today” Do you agree? Give reasons to support your answer and show that you have thought about different points of view. You must refer to Christianity in your answer.

Introduction

A parable is a short story that Jesus would tell to get a moral or message across to his listeners. He used them because they were very simple and easy to understand, he also used them because the listener would have to interpret the parable themselves and so give their own meaning to it. They would have to apply it to their own life in whichever form their life may take. Also in Jesus’ day story telling was one of the best forms of entertainment for people so they were all happy to gather round and listen to Jesus’ parables. All these things put together made parables a very good media for Jesus to use to get across his message.

My View

I think to answer this question you need to take a general look at the parables Jesus told. Having done this carefully I have to say that on the whole I agree with this statement. Most of his parables still have a relevance today in someway. I feel there are bound to be some parables that have lost their meaning throughout out the years due to changes in lifestyle and the general way we look at life. I think that most of the parables are in fact relevant. For example the most well known of all the parables “The parable of the Good Samaritan”. In this parable we are told that we should love our neighbour whether or not we are friends with them or if we even know them it doesn’t matter and we should still be prepared to help them. The key message was that everyone around us is our neighbour and is it still relevant today such organisations as CAFOD and Christian Aid are perfect examples of this message being lived today. This shows that the message is still relevant today probably even more so than it was because in the times we are living in there is a lot of war and hatred. This parable tells us that we should be loving our neighbours not hating them and so this I think is still very relevant, if not more so than it was when Jesus told it.

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Another parable that I feel that has remained relevant is “The parable of the lost son”. In this we are told that we should forgive people no matter what they do to us and again today there is so much hate and war about that I feel there are a lot of people could learn from this and that again it is a very relevant parable. The parable tells us how forgiveness is the way we should go about things and so many people today vent there anger onto other people through violence, if more people were to forgive ...

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