Sunday, October 21, 2007

The Unforgiving Tenant.

1. In the parable of the Unforgiving Servant, the high level servant is the main character, because his life as well as his family’s life was in danger and he asked for time, and the king doing an action of forgiveness, forgave the debt. But when the high level servant saw that another servant who owed him a relative small amount compared to his debt, the servant demanded for his money. His fellow servant asked him what he had asked the king, and he still did not forgive the debt. He did not learn about from the king, because he was still self-centered and selfish.
2. The king decides to forgive the debt, because he has enough to where he doesn't need to abuse others, unlike the servant who had nothing, and needed to harm others to get where he wanted to be. The king forgives him because he saw that the servant couldn't pay him back and forgave him, with the idea that he will learn from him.
3. The high level servant doesn't forgive the other servant, because he only cares about himself. He was only thinking about the consequences that would affect him, and not others, aside from his family because he did care about protecting them. Personally, I think that since he was excused from his debt, it was expected for him to learn from the experience, but since he was let off so easily, he didn't fully understand how the consequences affected someone.
4. The
kingdom of God is like the king. In the beginning of the parable Peter asked Jesus how many times he should forgive his brother, which is the natural human response when someone sins against you, but it seems as he wasn’t asking the correct question, but it does help emphasize the point that forgiveness has no limit. Keeping track of how many times we forgive is not forgiving at all, it is not like God keeps track of how many times he forgives us for our sins. The kingdom of God is we all have a debt that is not payable, but God will still forgive us.

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