Interpreting Parables and Prophecy: What in the Hermeneutic?

Join Paul and Cindy as they engage in a discussion of Biblical Hermeneutics and its role in preaching. This episode - Parables and Prophecy.
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Cindy Koch is an author and speaker
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7:24 as a agnostic, and self thought tarot reader who has interpreted religious texts ( mostly the bible) as a hobby, the mustard seet comparrason to the kingdom of heaven, appears to me to be a refference of potencial. As in, even in the smallest of ideas people can can find a troumendous amount of value if they take a nurturing approach, is they are curious for what the results are, and if they give it time and effort, and eventually, a person will get the fruits of their labour. But the reward is not only then, but in the active nourishing of this mustard seed on fertile land, you know how people who love doing something they feel imensely satisfied because the activity is a reward in of itself, and in those times they dont need anything more, because they already have what they need at that moment. The fertile soil part, if i were to generalise, it would be the curiosity, the approach, the philosophy with which we approach a new creation, the self analisys, the research, the mistakes, and the solutions, our attitude, and all of this combined makes a fertile soil for a human beeing to then enter the kingdom of god, kongdom of heaven, however you like to call it. Me personally, my interpretation of life,heaven, hell, and purgatory, is that it all happens here right now, so if i make actions which make my life better, than i am litterally in heaven presently. But whats this about ethernity in heaven or hell etc? My interpretation is that the universe is infinate and that it has cycles, a begining, present and end, and in one cycle, litterally everything thay is within the bounds of possibuility happens, and then when it ends and then starts again, it has no choice but to do the exact same things all over again, since evwrything that it will do is infact everything that is possible anyway. So you get whare im going with this i assume, but ill say it anyway. Basically, this infinate repetition is the infinity in heaven or in hell or purgatory. But in my interpretation, the amount of time you spend in each and how big each is depends on how you live your one life which will then repeat. So if you had 50 years of a good like and 5 of a hellish one, you will experience both over and over again, so they are both infinate but one infinity is bigger than the other. In this sence tho, its only very rare that someone can indeed experience only heaven, or only hell, or only purgatory, or whatever else theee might be that we arent aware of. Bare in mind that im not claiming that this us what actually happens, but what i think is the most plausable. Now whether god or God or gods exist or not, or both does and doesnt, i dont have evidence so i cant speak to that more than in a phisosophical sence as to what the implications might be for each scenatio as far as i understand things. Btw, i like your calm approach, even a fun approach, educational, pretty loving, and just openminded , and this is to me what religion should be like, so its a shame that so much of it has been coopted by powerhungry and misinformed groups and individuals which give religion in general a bad name. So keep up the awsome work gang ! If a loving God exists, than surely God is on your side