The Marketplace

Christians are not much into intepreting symbols, but I suppose this is the right place for the question

In any case, it is clear to me that having your coin in the bank, as it was in the parable, simply means being chaste and letting your energy built up as if with interest. But what is the market place, where those who got two and five talents went to get the double amount?

I suspect that it's the same kind of trading that is referenced to in Revelation.

[inavalan]

Wasting your God given talents' potential is a sin.

Yes but what is growing with interest and doubling it in the marketplace referring to. Where can you have that effect and on what?

[inavalan]

That is a parable: a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. You don't take it at face value.

Parables are analogous, you have to apply it to something.

[FallingLeaves]

I never really stopped to understand this one believing it beyond my comprehension, but now I think maybe I do understand...
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money, buying and selling, is symbolic of the relationship with others, specifically how much you can get others to do for you (when you pay them) or what you do for them (when they pay you).

personally gaining 'money' then is gaining in what you can get them to do for you. The marketplace being places you are with others, for trading.

so apparently there is a way to have your 'money' grow at double rates if you go to the 'marketplace' to trade.

I can guess what it is but don't feel like pushing unpopular opinions today... god was serious when he said he made foolish things in such a way as to confound the wise...

[sky]

Originally Posted by 1337_d00d

Parables are analogous, you have to apply it to something.

You have a choice to apply it to something but I don't believe you ' have to '. If you believe it's beneficial use it or just leave it for others to use.

Originally Posted by 1337_d00d

Christians are not much into intepreting symbols, but I suppose this is the right place for the question

In any case, it is clear to me that having your coin in the bank, as it was in the parable, simply means being chaste and letting your energy built up as if with interest. But what is the market place, where those who got two and five talents went to get the double amount?

I suspect that it's the same kind of trading that is referenced to in Revelation.

1337,

An interesting parable from Matthew 25:14-30. To properly understand it one must attempt to unravel the real meaning. We must make a leap from the material to the spiritual. The master is trusting something of value with 3 different people. Instead of reading it as talents(something of monetary value) I would suggest understanding it as seed money. That seed can be understood as perhaps love....or scriptures or revelation....all things of spiritual value.

We are told elsewhere in scriptures "to not put your light under a bushel" or "to whom much is given, much is expected". The 2 can be seen as planting these 'seeds' which grew into something like what they were given. The third man did not plant this seed and it did not see the light of day and grow into something of value. The trading aspect of the parable meant that the first 2 interacted with others and discovered that others had the potential to grow. Because they were good stewards of that which was given them more love was entrusted to them to enable the growth of others.

The one that withheld the 'seed' can be likened to priests or churches that are unwilling to share love/scripture/revelation with others and is a sin in the respect that their withholding was ego driven wanting to keep something of value only for themselves. Failure to plant was also an indication that the third man did not have genuine faith in God viewing the master(God) as an unforgiving master.

This is not a prosperity gospel(focus on the material) but a spiritual gospel. Focus on the material is once again a surrender to the programs of the ego.

Originally Posted by Molearner

1337,

An interesting parable from Matthew 25:14-30. To properly understand it one must attempt to unravel the real meaning. We must make a leap from the material to the spiritual. The master is trusting something of value with 3 different people. Instead of reading it as talents(something of monetary value) I would suggest understanding it as seed money. That seed can be understood as perhaps love....or scriptures or revelation....all things of spiritual value.

We are told elsewhere in scriptures "to not put your light under a bushel" or "to whom much is given, much is expected". The 2 can be seen as planting these 'seeds' which grew into something like what they were given. The third man did not plant this seed and it did not see the light of day and grow into something of value. The trading aspect of the parable meant that the first 2 interacted with others and discovered that others had the potential to grow. Because they were good stewards of that which was given them more love was entrusted to them to enable the growth of others.

The one that withheld the 'seed' can be likened to priests or churches that are unwilling to share love/scripture/revelation with others and is a sin in the respect that their withholding was ego driven wanting to keep something of value only for themselves. Failure to plant was also an indication that the third man did not have genuine faith in God viewing the master(God) as an unforgiving master.

This is not a prosperity gospel(focus on the material) but a spiritual gospel. Focus on the material is once again a surrender to the programs of the ego.

The talents are refering to something of value and for the Christian there is only one thing of value and that is the blood of "him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands". This is the energy that will build up once you are chaste and also refrain from other forms of sin, being defined by that which will prohibit Christ from reaching Golgatha - Satan. Once on the Cross there is an exchange with your sinful nature and Christ righteuosness, i.e., unless Christ reaches the cross you will not be free from sin.

It is my understanding currently that the market place is that exchange in the crown chakra or Golgatha (Skull).

I think the parable is also saying that if you only have one talent then you cannot really go to the market place. You have to first grow it with interest.

[sky]

Originally Posted by 1337_d00d

The talents are refering to something of value and for the Christian there is only one thing of value and that is the blood of "him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands". This is the energy that will build up once you are chaste and also refrain from other forms of sin, being defined by that which will prohibit Christ from reaching Golgatha - Satan. Once on the Cross there is an exchange with your sinful nature and Christ righteuosness, i.e., unless Christ reaches the cross you will not be free from sin.

It is my understanding currently that the market place is that exchange in the crown chakra or Golgatha (Skull).

I think the parable is also saying that if you only have one talent then you cannot really go to the market place. You have to first grow it with interest.

So you personally think everyone has a ' Sinful Nature ' ?