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“Form-critical analysis has enabled us to see that there are different types of parables of growth, and parables of the kingdom.”27 Through reading this statement I learned that I hadn’t previously separated the parables into categories or even noticed some allegory. Being that parables are so heavily stated in the bible I think this was an important section to my learning. Also, understanding that the parables of the Kingdom have a great weight in the bible is also important. God does everything to gain for the kingdom and sometimes that message gets lost in our interpretations.
In conclusion, reading throughout these textbooks has helped take some of the fear out of exegeses, hermeneutics, and biblical interpretations. There was so
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