S + K - Parable of the Lost Son Flashcards
What is shown most clearly in this Parable?
The nature of Salvation
What is the Kingdom concerned with?
Loving the lost sinner who was lost and welcoming all those who come to God in faith and humility
What does this Parable emphasise? and what does it highlight?
The nature of God’s forgiving love
- the contrast between the sinner and someone who believes that they are righteous and safe
What is the message of the Parable?
That God welcomes the sinner back and does not accept the complaint of the righteous who refuse to share his Joy
What was the further meaning saw by G. B. Caird
That the Parable was to ‘entreat the respectable Jews to rejoice with God over the restoration of sinners’
+ to warn that, until they learnt to do this, they would remain estranged from their heavenly father
