After an interesting point by doopgeorge and Co., it got me to thinking. The “parable” of Lazarus and the Rich Man, is always asserted as a parable. Fiction used to teach a point. Even though, it’s the only “parable” we’re characters have proper names. Since it seems to teach a point that WT theology doesn’t agree with, it’s brushed off as a parable, fiction used to teach that there was a changing of position/favor, completely ignoring the fact that it seems to be a commentary on the state of the dead, by Jesus himself.

Meanwhile, the parable of the Faithful and Discreet Slave is taken as prophecy, even though JWs always disregard the second part of the parable. They assert that the fds is a specific people even though that fds cannot become the evil slave. I’m not sure which one sounds more like a parable to me. There’s no concrete implication that it’s a prophecy and according to splane’s “new light” of actually reading the Bible in context and discontinued types and anti types, it’s pretty damning to the wt interpretation of this.