{"id":474,"date":"2014-08-31T02:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-08-31T02:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T02:10:33","slug":"talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/talents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parable of the Talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this play&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/talents.pdf\">parable of the Ten Talents<\/a>, we have another case of Jesus presenting a principle of the Kingdom that might be a little repellent to some modern sensibilities. At least to certain quarters of the Church, the cruel law, &#8220;to those who have shall be given, and from those who have not will be taken away even that which they have&#8221; and the extreme fate of the &#8220;unprofitable servant&#8221;, who is tossed right out of the boundaries of the parable and directly into Hell (just as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wedding-feast\/\">the parable of the Wedding Feast<\/a>) must strike a disturbing chord. <!--more-->Shouldn&#8217;t the Kingdom work in a more enlightened way? Shouldn&#8217;t there be forgiveness for the servant whose only mistake was to go too far to protect his master&#8217;s money from loss?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this play&#8217;s parable of the Ten Talents, we have another case of Jesus presenting a principle of the Kingdom that might be a little&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/talents\/\" title=\"The Parable of the Talents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}