(July 29, 2012 at 11:12 pm)Drich Wrote: Do you have any biblical examples of Parables being used outside of the one Christ used in the bible?
I do not doubt the effectivness of parables, I simply pointed out a fact.
"Jack and the Beanstalk." a parable is simply: The word "parable" comes from the Greek παραβολή (parabolē), meaning "comparison, illustration, analogy".[4] It was the name given by Greek rhetoricians to any fictive illustration in the form of a brief narrative. Later it came to mean a fictitious narrative, generally referring to something that might naturally occur, by which spiritual and moral matters might be conveyed
Note the fictitious part and apply it to your godboy.