So in my last video, I did a reaction to a quote by Sam Harris that we saw in an interview,

looking at what exactly is heaven in the Christian conception.

And to be honest, you know, I didn't only do it as a reaction to Sam.

I did it because I noticed that a lot of Christians were confused about what that was.

And a lot of Christians have a very

literalistic or materialist, only materialist version of what it is that heaven is in Scripture.

And so in the last video, I used Dante and I use Heidegger and a few other examples, and on

social media I've quoted from the Church Fathers, but I thought it would be a good idea to go straight into scripture

and to look at the words of Christ himself

and what he seems to be talking about when he mentions heaven.

And so we're going to look at the story of the two tenants,

which was yesterday was Sunday's gospel reading in the Orthodox Church, and we'll

see how it helps us understand what heaven is.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

So the parable of the two tenants is in Matthew 18.

So I will read the text for you and we'll look at how it helps us understand what it is that heaven is and what it's referring to.

And so it starts in chapter in verse 23. It says, therefore the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

As he began the settlement, a man who owed him 10,000 bags of gold was brought to him.

Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children

and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

At this the servant fell on his knees before him, be patient with me,

he begged, and I will pay everything back. The servant's master took pity on him,

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