I went back to the text but the dialogue had died down and no new themes or ideas were coming to me. At this point I did what Nancy Gross suggests and listed out my possible guesses for the meaning of this text.
• it is a literal view of what it will be like before Jesus second coming of judgement.
• It is about the hope of the coming of Christ
• It is about the action needed before Christ coming again
• It has something to do with eschatological theology and the idea of Christ coming to us again and again
At this point I engaged others in the dialogue for help.
First, I reached out to a mentor of mine with my eschatological idea. She affirmed my belief by explaining it more clearly:
“As part of the reformed tradition, we ascribe to the …show more content…
Why would Jesus choose the Noah analogy and how did it fit in with action? He pointed to the types of action verbs being used and explained that they were all actions related to daily human activities. Furthermore, the two following parables also focused on actions related to daily human activities which answered another question as to what the significance of the field and the meal grinding was. This surprised me as I had not thought of this at all. Jesus is not focusing on their sin rather their complacency by getting caught up in everyday …show more content…
In this particular passage, Jesus referenced it five times. I knew this had to be significant considering this is only nine verses out of his longer speech. Therefore, I explored how many times he states it in his speech in general. In doing this I noticed that it only occurs twice before this passage and never after. I then wondered if this part of his speech occurs in other gospels and if so what contexts. It appears in Luke but with no real significant differences that would bring cause for further exploration. Then again, the dialogue with the text became
• it is a literal view of what it will be like before Jesus second coming of judgement.
• It is about the hope of the coming of Christ
• It is about the action needed before Christ coming again
• It has something to do with eschatological theology and the idea of Christ coming to us again and again
At this point I engaged others in the dialogue for help.
First, I reached out to a mentor of mine with my eschatological idea. She affirmed my belief by explaining it more clearly:
“As part of the reformed tradition, we ascribe to the …show more content…
Why would Jesus choose the Noah analogy and how did it fit in with action? He pointed to the types of action verbs being used and explained that they were all actions related to daily human activities. Furthermore, the two following parables also focused on actions related to daily human activities which answered another question as to what the significance of the field and the meal grinding was. This surprised me as I had not thought of this at all. Jesus is not focusing on their sin rather their complacency by getting caught up in everyday …show more content…
In this particular passage, Jesus referenced it five times. I knew this had to be significant considering this is only nine verses out of his longer speech. Therefore, I explored how many times he states it in his speech in general. In doing this I noticed that it only occurs twice before this passage and never after. I then wondered if this part of his speech occurs in other gospels and if so what contexts. It appears in Luke but with no real significant differences that would bring cause for further exploration. Then again, the dialogue with the text became