The Importance of Faith in Life

Luke 16 is a warning from Jesus, but then as Luke writes it up for his own day as well. Don't assume that that's going to make all the difference you might want into because God is doing new things. And those who turn their backs on God in God's ways may not be convinced even so. So the parable has many levels. It's really our post-medieval culture that has wanted to turn the gospels into a story about heaven and hell That have seized on it and made it again a metonymy rather than a metaphor.