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Re: The Parable ot the Tortured Debtor
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Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:40:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> What a nice little surprise to finish the week.
Yeah, I was happy to finish this one up a little ahead of schedule.
> Title: Hmm, I probably would have chosen a different
> title, as the torture is hardly the point, is it?
It isn't?
I could be wrong, but I thought this parable was one of the easier ones to
"decode". The master in the story stands for God, and the slaves stand for
humans. According to the parable, God forgives humans when they beg him to, and
humans should follow God's example of forgiving those that beg them, because if
you don't God will torure you.
To me, the concept that God wants you to forgive people that beg you hardly
seems novel, but the idea that he will torture you for non-compliance is new,
important, and interesting info, so I assumed that this was the point Jesus was
making.
The only part I don't really get is what the "50 million silver pieces" stands
for. Do humans owe God money? How'd that happen?
> believe that in Christian texts this is usually
> called something like "Parable of the Unmerciful Servant".
I don't always agree with the labels that have been attached to these stories by
others. (In case anyone is not aware, the titles and headings you see in most
Bibles today were added in much later and are not part of the original text of
the scriptures.) Sometimes they're OK, but other times I find them very
misguided or even repugnant.
> Anyway, on to the MOC.
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> I like the throne room a lot. Did you challenge yourself to
> have a whole room with no studs-up orientation (except the figs)
> (oh, and except three pieces of the throne)?
That's not what I had in mind going into it, but I guess it turned out that way.
I was mostly interested in trying a floor pattern design using updide-down
1x1's, thinking that it might look neat.
> On the throne, I appreciate the idea of using the backpack
> pieces as details, but to me it just looks like the king has
> backpacks stuck to his throne, which seems odd.
Heh. @8^)
Maybe that's where he keeps his snacks.
> Also on the throne, in 18:31 especially, but also elsewhere,
> the color on the bottom two slopes looks different than the rest.
> Is this a trick of the lighting, or is this a new brown vs old
> brown issue?
I didn't notice this until when I was putting the web pages together. I thought
it must be a new/old brown issue, but I didn't remember mixing any new brown
into my collection yet. I just took another look at the throne, and it seems to
be evenly colored, so it must be some trick of the light.
Or maybe God is intervening to send LEGO a message about the new colors.
> The torture scene comes together especially well--the effect of having him
> stretched out on the rack, the torture tools, the choice of faces, the
> printed wall elmements. What are they doing with that flame? Ouch!
I thought the flame might be subtle enough to escape most people's notice. But
hey, there's a reason that man in screaming.
-Brendan
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| I'm following up to o-t.debate not to be combative, just because I'm not really discussing the MOC much. (...) I don't think it's the punishment that is the novelty here, but rather God's forgiveness. At least the Xtian viewpoint is that Christ (...) (20 years ago, 17-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Hey Brendan, What a nice little surprise to finish the week. I'm in that "not quite time to leave but too late to start something new on a Friday afternoon" mode, so I check Lugnet, and here's a new parable. :D Title: Hmm, I probably would have (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.build.ancient)
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