The Parable Of The Prodigal Son From The King James Bible

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A father’s love for his sons is often unspoken. Fathers will rarely say to their sons that they love them, but the sons know they really do. This love is strong, but held in reserve. Is it a sign of weakness if a father tells his son he loves him? This idea can be debated on both sides. In the Parable of the Prodigal Son from the King James Bible, a father openly forgives a son who just blew all of his inheritance money, and has returned home. The father is filled with so much happiness that he throws a party for the son. An older son of the father thinks it is unjust that the younger son gets a party for messing up. From the Parable of the Prodigal Son, of the King James Bible, there are three main messages.
To begin, one message from the Prodigal Son is the message of self control. The younger son is greedy and requests his inheritance so he can leave and start his own life. He then goes on to waste all of his money and ends up on the street. Later in the parable the older brother said “Which hath devoured thy living with harlots...” (line 30) This quote from the older son …show more content…

The older son, who has been working hard in the fields, comes to the house and finds out the his father threw a party for the son who wasted all of his money away. He becomes upset with his father for throwing this party because the younger son does not deserve it. The son said to his father, “Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandments: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends.” (line 29) This son has never done anything wrong and has never been rewarded with a party, but as soon as the failed younger son comes home he gets a feast. The older son sees this as unfair to him because he works hard for his father in the fields. Certainly, it was unfair and unjust to the older son to have his father throw a party for the younger

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