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Originally Posted by Chris T
Because it's a parable. Parables reduce big, profound theology to relatively simple stories. That's their purpose. The characters and situations in them represent other things to whatever extent is necessary to make the point. They are not, however, intended to be taken as complex allegory. That would defeat the point.
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Seriously Chris, what alternative "characters and situations" representative of "other things" could Jesus possibly have been referring to in that particular parable?
That particular parable is anything but a complex allegory - quite simply Jesus states that anyone who does not acknowledge him as their ruler should be brought to him (at whatever place he was at that time) and slain.
Black and white, advocating violence and slaughter - no complex allegory either used nor required.