From: Alan Cairns 

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:31:29 -0800, Randall Parker  wrote:

>The reason I think this is a bad parable is that a human being father is
>used in a role that is supposed to symbolic of God. Whereas, while God
>may be able to afford to give freely and completely a real father is
>going to have to think about the hard facts of life (eg money doesn't
>grow on trees) and a real father would be very unwise and impractical to
>do what the father did in that story.
>

Randall, you just don't get it, do you?



Alan
alancairns{at}dccnet.com

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