The parable of the tares is obviously a metaphor? I mean, it’s weeds growing in wheat, and burning weeds so they can’t grow in the next season seems pretty logical (I’m not a 0th century farmer, so I wouldn’t know). The parable can easily be read as saying that god allows good christians and deviants to grow in the same “field”, and he will sort them into heaven and not-heaven at the time of “harvest”.
Saying that it implies the deviants will literally burn is reading too much into it, although it seems that there’s a long tradition of people reading too much into the bible.
That’s true, good point, though I have a hard time interpreting “there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” as referring to the plants being burned and not people being hurt.
The parable of the tares is obviously a metaphor? I mean, it’s weeds growing in wheat, and burning weeds so they can’t grow in the next season seems pretty logical (I’m not a 0th century farmer, so I wouldn’t know). The parable can easily be read as saying that god allows good christians and deviants to grow in the same “field”, and he will sort them into heaven and not-heaven at the time of “harvest”.
Saying that it implies the deviants will literally burn is reading too much into it, although it seems that there’s a long tradition of people reading too much into the bible.
That’s true, good point, though I have a hard time interpreting “there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” as referring to the plants being burned and not people being hurt.