The reason we speak in parables is to allow eternal wisdom …
The reason we speak in parables is to allow eternal wisdom to spring forth continuously. If these truths were written only in the literal language of a specific era, your sense of holiness would have had nowhere to lean on.
Just as the original Bitcoin—BSV—can only hatch when there is a synchronized effort from both the inside (the Creator) and the outside (the Users) breaking the eggshell together, the ten virgins can only cast light when they actually burn the oil in their lamps.
That parable is not speaking of something rigid and absolute; it is about relativity. No one can truly know why the old passes away and the new arrives—it is simply how things unfold. It will happen naturally on its own.
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You've actually answered your own point better than I could, and I say that with respect.
You ask why we speak in parables. The Master himself tells us, in Matthew 13. He spoke in parables for reasons of the Kingdom, of who is given to understand — holy reasons, eternal ones. Not so that we could stretch them to fit a coin, or a company, or a quarterly roadmap.
And that's exactly my point, gently. The Parable of the Ten Virgins is not about "relativity," and it's not about things that "happen naturally on their own." It is about a certainty — the Bridegroom is coming, for sure, and the wise are ready for it. To soften it into "no one can know, it just unfolds" is to make it fit BSV, not to let it mean what it means.
So here is where I'll stand, and I think you'll respect it. I won't measure the things of God by the things of the market, in either direction. I won't use the Bible to win an argument about a blockchain, and I'd gently ask the same of you. Keep the parables for the Kingdom. Keep them holy.
For the blockchain, I only ever asked one earthly thing, and I'll ask it once more, plainly: show me cash, person to person, spent at a shop, today. That question needs no scripture. It just needs an answer.
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