The one where they killed the vineyard Master's Son?
Yes. It's problematic because if the landowner were moral, he wouldn't just sit on his behind and allow his workers to get all worked up. They were attacking precisely because he didn't want to do his job but still wanted his cut.
It's a lot like the prodigal son: let's never ask why the father raised such an ignorant spoiled brat. No, let's focus on the son. The father never had to give the inheritance cut to a spoiled brat. He could've looked for his child come rain, snow, sleet, or shine, like the Good Shepherd is supposed to do.
It's a lot like the king who got mad no one wanted to come to his buffet: how's about fixing what's wrong in your country? People have needs and a self-congratulatory photo op doesn't help things.
Most people just take the account's word at what the parable means, but the problem is that the authors say that Jesus didn't think the apostles understood him, so their conclusions could be way off.
Did the vineyard's son wake back up 3 days later?
I do not believe in an external "God" pulling the strings
Yeah, but we're talking about a literary character who IS known for micromanagement unless He's just not into it at the moment.
...Or is it actually a space that he just remains absent from? Because God can't go to hell, because, being pure love and goodness, His very presence there would turn hell into paradise.
What's to stop an omnipotent and omnipresent being from going to hell? Even gods could go to the underworld in many religions.
According to the Baal cycle, Yah(weh) and Baal Hadad killed each other on multiple occasions (because they were tied to seasonal stuff). Even Mot, God of Death, was slain at one point.
Rather, hell is the complete absence of all grace. It's all bad feelings, pain, sorrow, etc. - but only because God's not there.
Why is there a place where God doesn't extend His grace? Is there a quota? Does He have grace until His MP reaches 0 or something?
Why is God such a hypocrite that my soul partly depends on my loving my enemies, but God can get away with hating the entire population of hell?
According to scriptures, nobody can see God and live.
Except everyone who did. Even Jesus says the pure in heart can see God. If no one's pure, why bring it up?
So the bulls. The Israelites weren’t worshiping the bulls, they were using them in worship, sacrificing them to God.
Giant bulls held up a large cauldron or whatever it was. And the bull was the animal associated with El, Yah's Daddy (or in law, depending on the story). Even when El was portrayed as human-looking, His crown had bull horns on it in some versions.
Oh, and welcome, btw.
The copper serpent was, again, not worshiped. God condemned people for worshiping images and idols, not for making pottery or other objects. The Israelites were disobedient, so God sent a snake to punish them. When they repented, God asked Mosus to make a figure of a snake so that anyone who had been bitten and then looked at the serpent was saved. Notice I said looked, not worshiped. That figure could have been an Xbox stuck on a pole for all we care about, it was about them going out of their way to look at the pole, not worship.
And later the bible mentions it was destroyed because people were worshiping it. It's like how Christians argue the serpent is a metaphor for the crucifix, which people will also bow and kneel before.
I have just explained about the Cherubs, angels, these were not worshiped.
The rule was about making them. No one was worshiping images on coins either, but that didn't stop massive protests when Romans or whatever put human images on the coins and banners and such.
It's not, really.
God, as portrayed in the bible, at least, is the epitome of "do as I say and not as I do".
I prefer to have my scripture interpreted by monks
I prefer to just read it myself.
