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DQ Responses Week 2 RTCH 500 Hi, Absolutely, your statement about the parables almost always involved some agricultural or relational element. In How, Do the Parts Fit the Whole, Kaiser and Silva explained that having a jar filled with a fragrant blend of citrus peels, cloves, cinnamon bark, sandalwood, and other herbs and dried fruits thrown together or an assortment of items is not the writings of the Bible. 1 Furthermore, the more exposure the fragrance receives the shorter its lifespan, which is not accurate with God’s Word. The more we delve into and develop our relationship with him, the more spiritual insights we have into knowing Him personally. This leads to your next point about connecting to real spiritual issues or goals. Lowe and Lowe reveal that our vision is tainted when it comes to understanding God’s method(s); it is only when He chooses to remove cataracts from our eyes that we can see the progression of our spiritual growth, the goal for us. 2 I am flying to see my oldest brother for his birthday this weekend. He was upset because his vision was blurry, and he was frustrated about not being able to read items and drive, which gave him a sense of losing his independence. However, after his successful eye surgery, although he had a patch over his eye, he sounded optimistic about the foreseeable outcome. Now in his full recovery state, he said that he would be driving me around, his vision is now 20/20, and he started listing all of the things he could now see; he was so excited that I was almost convinced to receive some consultation for my eyes. From blurry to clear, he is back to his upbeat self again. Similar to how God operates, individuals' visions became clear when Jesus used the parables, and a spiritual connection was revealed. Of course, we know this is not just the parables. After the Samaritan woman had her Jesus encounter, her vision was clear; she was excited enough to bring others to Him, and unlike me (not going to see an eye consultant), many more believed because of what she said and did (John 4: 5- 42). Growth is growth, as Lowe and Lowe stated. For nature, it is the abiotic and biotic factors. For the church, it is the spiritual food from the Word of God. Both are used to exhibit and exchange ecological interconnection with one another. Bibliography 1 Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. and Moisés Silva. “How Do the Parts Fit the Whole?: The Tool of Biblical Theology,” in Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics: The Search for Meaning, ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007, 67–119. 2 Lowe, Stephen D. and Mary E. Lowe. Ecologies of Faith in a Digital Age: Spiritual Growth through Online Education . Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018, 38-63.

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