And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’“ (Luke 13:6-9 ESV)
This parable is an illustration of God’s patience toward the unrepentant, but also a warning that God’s patience does not abide forever. A day of judgement is coming. We must “bear fruit in keeping with repentance” (Matthew 3:8). God has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He has appointed, and of this He has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead. Do you presume on the riches of God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? (Romans 2:4, paraphrased) Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (Matthew 3:10 ESV)
The Lord is not slow to fulfil His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient towards you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should reach repentance. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought we to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn?! But according to His promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Therefore, those of us who are eagerly awaiting these things and the appearance of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, must be diligent to be found by Him without spot or blemish and at peace. Counting the patience of the Lord as salvation. There are some things in the scriptures that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction. Take care that you are not carried away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own steadfastness. But grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:9-18, paraphrased)
I don't readily understand the connection.
Do you think maybe the fig leaves sown were from the first dead fig tree? (Now that death had entered the Garden)
Death entering the world is represented by the garments of skin, which are made from the first animal sacrificed to God as a substitute for Adam and Eve dying because of their transgression of the law ("but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die").
Animal sacrifice (as in the case with Abraham and Isaac, the Mosaic law and later Christ's sacrifice as its fulfilment) is basically this - you wash away your sin with blood, because sin itself is death.
Brainwashed atheist retards can't even begin to grasp the intricacies and unparalleled logical connection of the true word of God. They smear it and blaspheme what they don't understand which pleases their jewish overlords immensely.
I had forgotten about the skins God gave them, thanks for reminding me, really tough stuff to stomach man.
The fig tree represents different things. In this case, the fig tree is a metaphor for the jews and the pharisees.
Abrahamic Faith is never built on Tolerance. It's like the "Woke" Agenda. It claims otherwise, but anyone who has flipped a history book will notice that those who opposed the clergy of these one world religions -- even if it's one perceived blasphemy -- invariably die.
The Roman Catholic church is not Christianity. They are the very antithesis of Christianity.
https://youtu.be/ZLBO3r5ZZcc?si=EmE1liwLVBcAt3jx
No, they are the real church. You are the offshoot sect.
Also Christianity is far from a united front -- it is separated into multiple offshoot cults, some of them no different from sun god faiths, and then you have the Hyskos who plagiarized all of the cults before them into a single book and ran the Vatican.
a) WAS (perceivable) before IS (suggested)
b) All (god) was before one (being) can come into being a patient.
Abide denotes "onward motion"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/abide#etymonline_v_38 aka ever forward (for-ever).
Few suggest nihil-ism (Latin nihilo; nothing) to tempt many to ignore temporarily being (life) done (inception towards death) within forever, for the inversion "does nothing".
One cannot repent (grieving what came before, while seeking forgiveness from what comes) without ignoring oneself as choice within balance.
In other words...holding onto one side (grieve), while inclining towards another (forgiveness) ignores being (life) in-between sides (inception/death).
A promise implies a pledge/vow of one to another...before such can be made ALL sets each ONE apart from one another.
Lord/laverd/loverd/wer - "perceive, watch out for"... https://www.etymonline.com/word/lord#etymonline_v_12435 implies ONE (perception) within ALL (perceivable), while the lord implies suggested THE-ism tempting ones consent to submit ones free will of choice to another lord above self.
There can be no salvation for emergency (life) during solution (inception towards death)...yet that which emerges can temporary grow during ongoing loss by resisting temptations like others suggesting one to seek salvation aka a way out of being.
I mean, he made all of this shit and the problems that come along with it. He needs to take a long look in the mirror if he's pissed about our existence, pal.
He knows we are dust, He made us from it.
We were born into a battle and we chose our move poorly, God gave us a King that cannot be defeated! Jesus Christ!!!
That's basic bitch heresy. God created all things good. Evil has no ontological existence - it came into the world through the fall of man because man distanced himself from God. There's light (God) and then there's the absence of light which is perceived as darkness. Christianity is not a dualistic religion.
It's sad people critiquing Christianity always misrepresent it. In the end all atheists and pagans do is tear down the strawman they've constructed and circle jerk about it. If you care about truth you'd want to engage with the real thing and expose it as false.
If you want to think about it from a purely pragmatic sense (which it appears you would), there is no world where winning is just hating on and blaming things on God.
The pragmatic thing to do is to have faith in God's finished work and the transformative potential he gave us all.