Analyzing “the Parable of the Prodigal Son”

Analyzing “The Parable of the Prodigal Son”

“The Parable of the Prodigal Son” is a well-known story from the Bible, of a disobedient son's return home and his father accepting him back. The father’s older son on the other hand feels differently about his brother’s return. The father then tries to convey to the older son on how he should forgive and that the younger son is still part of the family. This story shows how even when a person sins, as long as you return to the lord he will always forgive you and welcome you into heaven.

In the beginning of the parable, the younger son says to his father to give him the inheritance that is to be left to him, this tells us that the family is probably rich. In today's world, the father probably wouldn't give his son his inheritance when he said he wanted to leave. Also if the son was to try to come back, I doubt that the father would even let the son back into the house. Today, if you disrespect your parent like he did a lot of the time your parents will disown you.

When the prodigal son went off on his own he started to wander the earth and spent his entire inheritance. After he spent everything that he had, he needed to get a job. He ended up feeding pigs, the absolute worst job you could have at the time. Pigs, at the time, were the lowest of the low, so being the one that tends to them and feeds them, really puts into perspective on just how much he hit rock bottom. He even went so low as to consider actually eating the food that he would feed the pigs but the people wouldn't allow him any. It wasn't long after stooping as low as the pigs that the son realized his wicked ways and decided to try to go back to his father.

After losing everything, and hitting rock bottom the son ended up going back to his father. He begged him for a job to be a servant because he felt he had done his father and heaven so wrong that he did not deserve to come back as an equal. Today you see this kind of situation with addicts and alcoholics, they squander all of their money and loose the respect of their families until they hit rock bottom then end up trying and asking to go back. The father instead of doing what most people or parents would do ended up taking the younger son back, but he didn't just accept him back, he threw a party for him! Now one thing that is a bit exaggerated, if it was today, the father wouldn't throw a party for a prodigal son. Most families that take back wayward sons seem to take things very slow and are always very weary and untrusting at first. In today’s society trust is a very important role in families and once it