The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: The Return (1882) James Tissot 1836 – 1902

From: http://www.artbible.info/art/large/493.html

Tissot places the story of the prodigal son who returns to his father repenting in a contemporary context. The son's ship has just come in and his father awaits him at the quay.

Perhaps Tissot was inspired by this depiction of the story by Rembrandt. Here too the bystanders look on in silence, impressed by the scene. Twenty years earlier, Tissot made a Prodigal son set in Paris.

Tissot lived in London when he made this painting. He enjoyed spending time in the Port of London and often used it as a setting for his work.

Colbert Video: The Bible out of context

Here’s an entertaining video of Colbert defending the authenticity of the Bible. He actually does a great job and keeps it very funny as he goes.

The confused soul that plays Colbert’s guest in this clip is out promoting his new book, “Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the hidden contradictions in the Bible.” It’s one more sad example of how the tradition of interpreting the Bible out of context or using it as something that it’s not has done tremendous damage to the truth of Christianity.

Shoot - we now have an entire culture of even Christians who have taken it upon themselves to interpret Sacred Scripture independent of Sacred Tradition and the Church that gave it to us. And then they go out and come to their own fallible conclusions about it based solely on their own, personal authority. So I suppose we can’t be too surprised when non-believers claim to disprove Christianity using the same exact method. We need to rethink why we believe in the Bible in the first place.

Hope you enjoy the video!

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