Many interpretations have been given to Kafka's “In the Penal Colony”. However, it seems that when the parallel statement between “In the penal colony” is brought up and religious critics tend to reject this thought. Doreen F. Fowler, states in “In the Penal Colony: Kafka's Unorthodox Theology,” that the reason for such critical rejection is: “A coherent interpretation of biblical symbols in the story, in which all parallels function meaningfully, presents a 'unorthodox interpretation and uniquely personal vision of traditional theology' (113). Kafka's inversion of traditional theology is evident, and while clearly unorthodox, an analysis that discounts the possibility of biblical symbols in "In the Penal Colony" is a contradictory interpretation of the text itself. To expose the essential biblical symbols found in “In the Penal Colony,” Fowler briefly reconstructs the major narrative developments. The first and most obvious biblical symbol is found in the commandments of the penal colony. The ancient commandments implemented a bizarre and ruthless, which is clearly exemplified in their fundamental and guiding principle “Guilt is always beyond doubt” (Kafka7). This guiding principle serves as a punishment criterion for how the sentence is carried out, in which the officer explains in detail why the condemned does not he knows his sentence: “It would be useless to give him this information. He experiments on his own body” (Kafka7). justice on the body of the condemned. At this stage it is evident that the intrinsic value of the old commandment is, as Fowler states, “human existence is essentially the character… the center of the paper… and the most bizarre corners of humanity. Perhaps it is now indisputable that in the Bible and in “In the penal colony” Christ and the officer both die for a different reason. The Bible states that Christ's self-sacrifice freed humanity from all sin. In "In the penal colony", however, the officer does not die to free the man from all guilt and suffering but to affirm its necessity. Fowler interprets the connection with the figure of Christ as “Kafka's analogy for saying that only through such suffering and death can human sinfulness be overcome”. Finally these are the words that highlight the unorthodox vision and meaning of these biblical parallels. The biblical symbols that pervade Kafka's “In the Penal Colony” are undeniable, and it is inaccurate to dismiss the implicit biblical analogies because of Kafka's unique personal critique of the world itself..