Movies can ruin the mindset of humans sooner than a cardboard puzzle palace. The defined 'prodigal' goes into a state of rebellion when he took his money and 'paid it forward' toward anti-commandment enterprises. If the message of 'the prodigal son' is a prophetic scenario, the prodigal would have to start 'paying it backwards' after gaining proper employment and then returning money to people he might have swindled or stolen from while on his sinning spree. A prodigal concept is not limited to children who leave obedient Israelite homes to raise pigs and associate with seductive cheerleaders, but can easily open up by 'prodigal' definition to wider areas of financial offenses against others that need correction. ONly by 'paying it backward' can a thief still off of a wooden cross to receive forgiveness and restoration into a commandment-keeping family. Taking stolen money and forwarding to others in fake moves of 'charity' will never count as good works, and eventually can get the receivers of the stolen money in danger of some form of damnation.
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