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NASB | Matthew 22:11 ¶ "But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:11 ¶ "But when the king came in to see the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed [appropriately] in wedding clothes, |
Subject: The excluded man at the feast was saved |
Bible Note: Eagle: I think you may be reading two much into the parable. In a parable (as opposed to an allegory), everything in the story does not represent something else. So when the king uses the term "friend" in the story, we cannot immediately assume that we are referring to a believer. Secondly, the fact is that someone who is a life-long "Carnal Christian" is not a Christian at all. There is no such thing as a Christian that God justifies and then does not gradually sanctify between the time of his conversion and the end of his life. True, our sanctification is not complete until we are in God's presence, but God does not save us into a live of unrepentant sinfulness. God saves us unto good works which glorify him, and they are the marks of a true believer in Christ. I hold that all of the passages referring to the "weeping and gnashing of teeth" refer to hell. There is no reason to think that Jesus would use exactly the same terminology to describe the eternal punishment of hell and an alleged "outer area of heaven. that just doesn't make any sense at all. So I agree with point 3 of your assertion, but reject points one and two, because to be a born-again Christian, repentance is the "flip side of the coin" of our saving faith. --Joe! |