Why Jesus likes to tell parable?
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A.  People like stories are are more likely to pay attetnion.\nB.  Stories are more likely to be passed along.\nC.  Jesus wanted us to think.  He gave us the facts but its up to us do search it out for ourselves.
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It means telling something to someone who already knows it and believes it.  The members of the choir are already members of the church, usually pretty dedicated ones, and so "preaching" to them is rather unnecessary.  They sit there long enough, they get to know all the minister's sermons anyway.  My mother was in the choir for many years, and was also a Sunday school teacher.  She could have given the sermons herself when the minister was sick.
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Philip,\n\nIf you pray like a Pharisee, it is works. If you pray like a tax collector, it is not works. Since you are in the Religion and Spirituality section of Yahoo! Answers, I feel it is OK to use a parable of Jesus to illustrate my point.\n\nTo some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector.  I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' \n\nBut the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' \n\nI tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."  Luke 18:9-14\n\nCouldn’t have said it better myself.\n\nAs to your second question, the answer is, “No.” If I may I would like to go to the best source of truth once again.\n\nThat if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9\n\nPrayer is just communicating with God, and it can be done audibly or silently. In the case of being saved from death and going to heaven, you have to declare that Jesus is Lord to Jesus with your mouth – or audibly.\n\nMay I add that prayer is 2-way communication? I would rather hear God speak to me than almost anything that I’ve ever experienced. The only thing that I enjoy more is to sense His heart.\n\nGod bless.
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lemme get this straight... he (Jesus) said that he is a prophet, and 'peter' said he is the son of god... so jesus doesn't admit it to himself? \n\nstarr ww agrees that jesus was a prophet, but became a saviour when he died which mean who made him what he is? DID HE? OR DID YOU? unless he screams from the cross "I'm doing this for you people, you better be thanking me and make me your god or something, cos this thing hurts like a b****"
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They do that because it is one of the doctrines in their faith... "to go and spread the word (good news)". Which they take to mean as "tell everyone about Christianity".
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There's a really good article about it, found here -- http://www.beliefnet.com/story/63/story_6364_1.html -- but unfortunately there's no reference to Jesus laughing in the Bible.
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No kidding.\n\nThats why Jesus says: Pray daily.  You pray daily for forgivness.\n\nwow.  Go figure.  huh.\n\n\nwanna popcicle?
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This is the closing verse of Jesus Parable of the Ten Minas and should be read in the whole of it's context (Luke 19:11 to 27), in which He describes the principles upon which God will reward His faithful servents when "His Kingdom Come".\n\nBut to those who reject Him, (the subject of the above final verse of this parable) Jesus is prophecying both the comming destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and far more significantly the comming judgment and destruction of the World as described in Revelation and elsewhere.
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Tell people they can cherry-pick whatever they want out of the bible. They seem to do that anyway, but if you tell that this is OK, you'll reel in millions of people who are looking for a free-ride to heaven! :)
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I tell you what please read Matthew 3:1-17, Matthew 11:2-4,11 Matthew 14:1-13; Luke 1:5-80 Luke 3:1-22. That will tell you what you want to know.
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Jesus was teaching a sermon about how to receive from God.\n\nLuke 11: 9-10\n9. And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. \n\n10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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I like to give people hope that Jesus has freed them from sin and guilt and hell. I hate to see people suffering under what the church has taught for so long. \n\nThere is message about Jesus that I cannot keep inside.
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Each Gospel was writen by a diferent person into a diferent reality, they are no chronological and don't tell the same things to people. Each one show a diferent angle of this person called Jesus to other people. They were writen also in diferent times (The gospel of John is the latest, writen about 100 years after Jesus' death). So, Mark and Luke, didn't considered important tell that part to the people they have writen for
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Paul SAYS Jesus said this, but it isn't anywhere to be found in the Gospels.  Possibly Jesus never said it, or maybe Paul made it up; Or, possibly, one of the hundreds of "editors" of the bible thought it was a nice sentiment and added it.
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One of the reasons that Jesus came was to teach us what the creator, his father, wanted from us and how to live a truly righteous life.  He compares the creator to a loving father.  When you look at the gospel in this way, it becomes easier to understand his commandments and desires for us.  Like all fathers, he wants us to achieve our fullest potential and like all fathers, he loves us no matter what.  In my view, the creator doesn't tell us not to commit sins out of a desire to control us but out of a desire for what is best for us.  Just like a father might punish a child for crossing a busy street after being warned.  God may sometimes punish us for doing things that he has warned us about.  This isn't because he doesn't want us crossing the street, it is because he knows we might get killed for trying to cross that street.  \nThe best part is that all God wants from us is for us to trust him and try to follow his commandments.  Love him and love our neighbors.  If we do this we don't have to worry about all the little things.  He will provide for us.  This is a really tough thing to actually follow and believe.  That is where faith comes in.  \n\nUnfortunately today so many people have been tricked into believing that you have to worry about tomorrow, (save money, invest, cheat people to get ahead, etc) and they don't understand what is really important-Love God and Love your neighbor.  How many "religious" people do you know who don't commit "sins" such as drinking, drugs, etc. and act so righteous yet they don't treat people with respect and dignity.  So many are like the pharisee in the temple thanking God that he is not like the beggar beside him.
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the Old Testament symbolisms pointing to Jesus are greater and far above any other type of symbolism because they are of God and too many people tend to play down the greatness of this for a worldly view, that is much lesser  meaning.\nJesus spoke lots of parables and these have been interpreted pretty well by Christian churches, but when Jesus said `This is My Body take it and eat it`, and again this is My Blood take and drink it`, AND AGAIN  when H e said , `unless you eat my flesh and drinkl My blood you shall not have life within you, here He was not talking parable nor symbolically, this was a solemn and direct command, and some Christians still fail to see this.\nHoly Communion is the Real body and blood of Christ and it would be meaningless to receive it otherwise.
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BECAUSE IT CONTAINS TRUTH WHICH WILL ROCK THE FALSE CHRISTAIN CONCEPTs.\n\nGospel of Barnabas was one the several gospels which the chruch tried to destroy.But it survived.\n\nDo u you this Gospel contain PROPHESY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD(peace be upon him)\n\nLook at this:------It contains the reference of Muhammad(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) by name throuh Jesus(peace be upon him).\n\n\nQUOTE STARTS:\n\n\nThen Jesus said: 'So secret is predestination, O brethren, that I say to you, truly, only to one man shall it be clearly known. He it is whom the nations look for, to whom the secrets of God are so clear that, when he comes into the world, blessed shall they be that shall listen to his words, because God shall overshadow them with his mercy even as this palm-tree overshadows us. Yes, even as this tree protects us from the burning heat of the sun, even so the mercy of God will protect from Satan them that believe in that man.' \n\nThe disciples answered, "O Master, who shall that man be of whom you speak, who shall come into the world?" Jesus answered with joy of heart: 'He is Muhammad;, Messenger of God, and when he comes \ninto the world, even as the rain makes the earth to bear fruit when for a long time it has not rained, even so shall he be occasion of good works among men, through the abundant mercy which he shall bring. For he is a white cloud full of the mercy of God, which mercy God shall sprinkle upon the faithful like rain.' \n\nQUOTE ENDS.