Subject: many are called but only few are chosen |
Bible Note: Dear Doc, We are not saved by merit, but we must respond, repent and receive our salvation. He doesn't just drop it on everyone whether repentant or not. However, I do believe that He gives more responsibility as we are faithful with the little He starts us with. Case in point, look at Matthew 25:14-30. I believe this shows that the first two are given more responsibility in accordance with their faithfulness with what they were first given and the third is as you say, cast out. However for the first two, one is given more responsibility than the other according to what each has done with what he did receive at first. Also, verse 29, I believe speaks of gratitude. When it says "from him that hath not, what he hath...in other words the person thinks he has not... he is ungrateful for the little he has, and so loses what little he has. This, I believe, reveals ingrattitude. According to this parable, I believe the first two are examples of the saved, the third one is cast out, as far as I understand it. I could be wrong, but this is what I believe it means- Itiswritten |