What the Parable of the Two Sons Say About Human Nature (Matthew 21:28-32) Bible

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What the Parable of the Two Sons Say About Human Nature (Matthew 21:28-32) Bible

There are two types of agreement

One is emotional agreement

And one is social agreement

What God is trying to show us in this biblical passage is that the superior morals of the pharisees over the tax collectors and prostitutes was more an act of social conformity than it was an act of conscience

Those who have the courage to socially deviate from the pact are more likely to cultivate authentic emotional agreement with Gods word

Than those who hide their disagreements with God for social reasons

This is why the pharisees were no more ethical than the prostitutes and tax collectors

They did things out of their vanity and social conformity

And not out of their desire to glorify God or serve Him

Here Jesus high lights both the danger of self vanity and also the obscenity of moral vanity

What the Parable of the Two Sons Say About Human Nature (Matthew 21:28-32) Bible
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