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Christian parables were anecdotal narratives, metaphors, analogies, allegories, and aphorisms that illustrated the main themes of Jesus Christ's moral and religious preaching about Christianity by comparing the Christian themes with natural, readily observable, daily occurrences. Jesus preferred to teach by the oral tradition method as a storyteller of parables, similitudes, and exemplaries. He was a kind hearted healer who performed miraculous healings, cast out demons, manifested food to fed the hungry, and calmed troubled and stormy seas. He also was a mentor and benefactor to his disciples, assuring them that the miraculous deeds, he had accomplished they were also capable of doing in due course. From the parables of Christ we know that he taught his disciples to be loving, tolerant, kind-hearted and merciful. He taught them not to cast stones at others unless they themselves where free from all blemish and sin.
He taught them to do until
others as they would have others do unto them. He taught them to be good
Samaritans. He taught them to treat their neighbors they way they would like others to treat them. He taught them to
be compassionate by feeding the hungry and healing the sick.
He taught them to have faith in the goodness of the underlying fabric of Creation. He taught them how to cast out demons and how to put Satan behind them. He taught them about angels and how to pray. The purpose of a parable was to further elucidate and engrain lessons by making Christians reflect on their true meaning. There are three types of parables: similitude, parables, and the exemplary story. A similitude was a concise parable that narrated a story about a typical everyday event which anyone could recognize as a familiar experience. It persuaded because it compared something like God's love for a repentant sinner with a recognizable truth such as the happiness one feels when they found something lost, "Who does not rejoice upon finding a lost coin in the thicket"? A parable was a simple, past tense, tale about a one time event that is realistic but fictitious. Vividly engaging stories they persuaded with their freshness, "There once was a rich man...". An exemplary described a single specific instance, real or imagined, drawn from daily living that was used as an example to illustrate a moral or religious principle. For example, the "Story of the Good Samaritan", showed what loving your neighbor as yourself really means.
Initially in
the Old Testament the concept of epistles was one of writings or books. Later
on, during the time of the captivity, the messages evolved into a specific form
of writing. In the New Testament, the epistle had evolved to be more than a
personal letter - to become a preliterary form of self expression. The epistle
letter addressed a larger Christian audience, followed the rules of art, and was suitable
for general publication.
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