#12570 Can You Interpret the Sower Parable? Genesis and Islam - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can you interpret the Sower parable?” This question opens a discussion on the meaning of Mark 4’s parable, touching on themes of public teaching and predestination. Other topics include the claim by Islam regarding the corruption of the Bible, the church’s interpretation of Genesis, and whether Mary knew of Jesus’ resurrection after the Crucifixion.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:11 – I’ve heard that a small group of Jews are the real church based on the Acts of the Apostle and the Jews who were called “the way”?
- 13:07 – Can you explain the Sower parable of Mark 4? Why can I interpret the idea of public teaching and predestination?
- 13:07 – Can you explain the Sower parable of Mark 4? Why can I interpret the idea of public teaching and predestination? – IF you Like the question
- 18:35 – Can you explain why Islam claims that our bible is corrupt, but they also use certain books?
- 29:01 – Can you explain the church’s doctrinal literal interpretation of Genesis? Is there any consideration of young Earth creationism?
- 38:58 – Can someone interpret Genesis trees as literal trees and places? It seems it could be based on Mose’s miracles? Varied
- 48:00 – Is there a reliable bible commentary for an average reader not scholar?
- 52:51 – After Jesus is Crucified did Mary know He was going to rise in 3 days?
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| 0:49.4 | Jimmy, I want to talk about the Jimmy Aiken podcast and everything, but Deborah in Washington waited a lot |
| 0:55.3 | of the last hour. Do you mind if we take her call and then we'll get to other things? |
| 0:58.8 | Oh, sure. That'd be great. All right. Deborah, watching on YouTube. Thank you so much for waiting, |
| 1:03.4 | Deborah. I'm sorry that you had to, but go ahead with your question. No worries. I enjoy listening |
| 1:09.9 | to the show. Thank you. |
| 1:11.6 | Okay. |
| 1:12.6 | Jimmy, my question is, I have an extended family member, an in-law who believes he's become |
| 1:19.6 | a Mithianic Jew. He believes that in the Acts of the Apostles, the original followers |
| 1:25.6 | of Jesus, of course, were Jewish, and they referred to themselves |
| 1:29.7 | as the way. And he believes that the original church then was a Jewish church, and the Christian |
| 1:36.3 | church is a Gentile church that some Jews just happened to drop into. But that the original Jews who followed Jesus and began converting |
| 1:49.6 | others and went out to the diaspora, converting others, and because they weren't welcomed |
| 1:55.8 | very well in Antioch and more Gentiles tended to, if I understand it, joined the church than Jews. |
| 2:03.3 | Somehow that whole idea of ministering to all these Jews in the diaspora escapes him. |
| 2:10.0 | And he just believes that the Christian church is a Gentile church and that the original church was actually the way. So I wondered |
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