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Aschlafly moved page Parable of the fig tree to Parable of the barren fig tree: more precise title

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This parable confirms the primacy of the future over the past.

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Also like the Coase theorem, the past lack of productivity (or happiness) is no limit on success or happiness now and in the future.

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The fig tree is the third type of tree mentioned in Genesis, after the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve made clothes for themselves from the fig tree after the Fall.

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Fig trees are mentioned surprisingly often in the Bible: 42 references to "fig tree" in ESV, more than half in the Old Testament. There are additional references to figs also.

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This parable is Biblical scientific foreknowledge of the Coase theorem, which predicts that resources are used in their most productive way in the absence of transaction costs. Unproductive resources -- and people -- are akin to the fig tree

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