Are New Testament parables supposed to be literally true?

[RTFirefly]

Originally Posted by Little Nemo

I was including even the top mathematical minds like those you mentioned. Probability just wasn't a direction their mathematical thinking was geared towards. Classical mathematics were aimed at things like proofs - a binary system where answers were either yes or no. Probabilities require you to view things in terms of maybe.

I don't understand why this would have been a barrier. There really are exactly 6 ways a cubic die can come up. And there really are exactly 36 ways a pair of cubic dice can come up. (Easily illustrated by numbering the sides of one die, and coloring the sides of the other with different colors. This is manageable for a Greek. And even though you haven't said it, you've got a sample space.) No 'maybe' in sight.

You don't even need fractions per se, just the notion that certain ways of collecting outcomes from the sample space involve collecting more of those 36 individual outcomes.

[Quartz]

Originally Posted by Czarcasm

Androcles and the Lion.

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Possibly not. Androcles is a derivative of the Greek Andros (cf Heracles) and simply means man of fame and thus could be a generic name.

[Flips187]

Matthew 13:10... Theres your answer my friend...god bless Iu

[Flips187]

Matthew 13:10

[FinnAgain]

How did I know that the join date would be May 2012?

[Little Nemo]

For the record, Matthew 13:10 says "The disciples came to him and asked, 'Why do you speak to the people in parables?'"

Which doesn't seem to really answer my question.