Religious scholar Reza Aslan destroys ‘charlatan’ Joel Osteen: Jesus hated wealth

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48. I repeat I am not saying that your particular interpretation is "wrong"

Just that there are many ways of interpreting it, and yours is only one of those many ways; in essence you are claiming that you and your teachers are correct and that all other interpretations and schools of thought are wrong. This emphasises a problem of teaching in parables especially as parable could use real events (the point behind my comment about Herod Archelaus) just as hyperbole can use to real events to magnify a story. This is made clear by the Parable of the Tares where in Matthew 13:36 the disciples have to ask for it to be explained.

Next you highlight the series into which this parable falls but ignores another the big problem, that the ordering and collection of such tales fell not to Jesus, nor to any of the apostles but to the anonymous authors of the Gospels and the later Church fathers who edited the book. These recollections and subsequent collections of the Christian story happened many years after the supposed events in Judea.