The unmerciful servant

1. The main character is the high level servant. The servant is the main character, because his life was on the line and he asked for time, and the king dismissed his debts. Then when the servant saw his fellow servant who owed him little debt, the servant demanded him for the money. The man asked him the same question he had asked the king, and yet he didn't dismiss the debt. He didn't learn from the king, because he only cared about himself. His life was on the line and didn't care who he had to harm to get something that he needed to save himself.

2. The king decides to forgive the debt, because he has enough to where he doesn't need to harm someone to survive, unlike the servant who has nothing and feels the need to abuse someone to get something they need. The king forgives the debt because he saw that the servant couldn't pay him back and dismissed it, hoping that the servant would learn from him and forgive others.

3. The servant doesn't forgive his fellow servant, because in a way he only cares about his life. He was only thinking about what would happen to him and not what would happen to the other guy. He did what he thought he needed to do for his family to survive, because he had nothing. I think that because he was forgiven he was expected to learn from the experience, but because he was let off easily, he didn't fully understand and go through the consequences.

4. God is like the king. In the beginning of the parable Peter asked Jesus how many times should he should forgive his brother, which is the natural human response when someone sins against you. Jesus is teaching to not put a limit on forgiveness . The Kingdom of God doesn't limit how many times it forgives us. Keeping track of how many times we forgive is not forgiving at all. The debt that we owe God because of our sins compares to the ten thousand talent debt. It is so great that we could never repay it. But God forgives that impossible debt endlessly.