in the parable of the sower, how are people like the four soils?
Here are a few examples. 1. Some never care for the Gospel to begin with. Satan was working so that the Gospel cannot sink in the hard soil in the first place. Some people are very opposed to Christianity. Others are not, but as I have heard, “will come to the Bible study if I have nothing better to do.” 2. Some want to accept the Gospel at first, but they fall away in trouble or persecution. 3. Some people grow in the Gospel, but they are choked out by the cares of this life, or the temptations of their society. Materialism, watching immorality and violence, and alcoholism are some of the greater “thorns” to watch for in western Society. 4. Some both respond and persevere. Of these, differing ones deliver varying fruits. Q: In Mk 4:14-20, in the parable, wasnt the sower too careless with the seed? A: Careless no, liberal with the seed yes. There is no “fifth kind” of soil that would have been fruitful except that the sower forgot to sow there. The truth is, that no soil could give the
