Submitted Christian Writings
~~~ Parables for Modern Academia ~~~
New Revised Academic Version (NRAV)
- By Deborah and Loren Haarsma
If Jesus taught on the campus today,
what might His parables say?
Matthew 13:24-30
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a programmer who started many processes on her
computer. While everyone was sleeping, a hacker broke in and started some counterfeit
jobs, which began using some of the CPU time. The programmer's assistants said,
"Didn't you start useful jobs on the computer? Where then did these counterfeits come
from?" "A hacker did this, " she replied. The assistants asked her,
"Do you want us to kill the jobs?" "No," she answered, "because
while you are killing them, some good processes might be interrupted by accident. Let them
all go to completion. Then we will purge every counterfeit process from the disk and
memory, and save the results of every good process onto permanent tape." (Matthew
13:24-30)
- Copyright 1996 Deborah and Loren Haarsma. May be freely distributed electronically in
whole or in part with this notice attached and the text unaltered.
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