Comments on: The Parable of the Leaven Bread May Not Mean What You Think! http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/04/29/the-parable-of-the-leaven-bread-may-not-mean-what-you-think/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:41:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Proud Daughter of Eve http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/04/29/the-parable-of-the-leaven-bread-may-not-mean-what-you-think/#comment-3327 Proud Daughter of Eve Mon, 01 May 2006 04:00:58 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=262#comment-3327 The second counselor in my ward is finishing his PH.D in Early Christian History and I asked him what he thought about this take. He says that there are two parables from the scriptures that talk about leaven and that one is a positive use and the other is a negative use. He comfirmed Don's take that the negative one is basically saying "one bad apple spoils the bunch." The second counselor in my ward is finishing his PH.D in Early Christian History and I asked him what he thought about this take. He says that there are two parables from the scriptures that talk about leaven and that one is a positive use and the other is a negative use. He comfirmed Don’s take that the negative one is basically saying “one bad apple spoils the bunch.”

]]> By: Bret http://www.nine-moons.com/2006/04/29/the-parable-of-the-leaven-bread-may-not-mean-what-you-think/#comment-3326 Bret Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:26:38 +0000 http://www.nine-moons.com/?p=262#comment-3326 Isn't bread always a symbol of Christ? Why is it different here? Isn't a stone or rock also a symbol of Christ? Why does it instead represent the Church in Daniel 2? What about the parable of the unrighteous judge representing Father in Heaven? Isn't that a strange exception? Good questions. I sure don't know the answers! Maybe God puts a few exceptions to rules in their just to keep us on our toes, or maybe so that we have to rely on the interpretations given to us by modern prophets instead of relying on our own judgment. Isn’t bread always a symbol of Christ? Why is it different here? Isn’t a stone or rock also a symbol of Christ? Why does it instead represent the Church in Daniel 2? What about the parable of the unrighteous judge representing Father in Heaven? Isn’t that a strange exception?

Good questions. I sure don’t know the answers! Maybe God puts a few exceptions to rules in their just to keep us on our toes, or maybe so that we have to rely on the interpretations given to us by modern prophets instead of relying on our own judgment.

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