And Jonah vomited the big fish upon land. Probably as a result of GERD.
Help out a heathen, if you would, and explain said point?
Powers &8^]
Basically, it’s that the complaint, “It’s not fair! Why should they be forgiven when I always behaved perfectly in the first place? Stupid God!” is not what God wants to hear.
Già strilla l’angelico stuolo,
Ghermiamo quell’anima al volo.
Già l’opra del male distrugge
Iddio col suo stolto perdon,
Col suo stolto perdon!
—Boito, Mefistofele, Epilogue
“Already screams the angelic host,
Soul seized on the fly.
Already the deed of evil destroys
God pardon with his foolish,
A fool with his pardon!”
—Google Translate
A fool and his pardon are soon parted…
A fool and a Parton are soon partying.
Google Translate cannot handle poetry. A rough rendering would be:
Even now the angelic host calls out
For the soul [Faust’s] taken up in flight.
Even now the works of Evil are destroyed by
God with His stupid pardon,
With His stupid pardon!
(The speaker, of course, is Mephistopheles, who is, at the moment, being tortured with a shower of rose petals from Heaven.)
The Prodigal Son’s elder brother and Jonah have been taking spiritual lessons from the ultimate bad teacher.
(I have only a rough-and-ready opera singer’s knowledge of Italian; anyone with a more solid grounding, feel free to revise it.)
If God doesn’t want to hear it, then why did he set up an unfair system in the first place?
I’m curious why you think this is a point that still needs making.
Powers &8^]
The answer to that depends largely on whether or not you are a Christian. At any rate, the point is basic to Jesus’ teaching, yet it is often ignored.