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The Parables Were Never Meant to Comfort You | Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
Theologian
Amy-Jill Levine
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1.03
Uploaded to YouTube
25 April 2026
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4 May 2026
YouTube description
You have been told the parables are comforting.
Bedtime stories for the faithful.
Sweet little lessons Jesus dumbed down so regular people could get them.
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine says that is not what parables are.
Parables were designed to afflict the comfortable.
Not to tuck you in.
To shake you up.
The Beatitudes comfort the afflicted.
The parables do the opposite work.
And here is what most pastors miss: Jesus did not dumb anything down. The parables are not children's stories. They are some of the most difficult teaching in the entire Bible.
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