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Nor does it have to repeat the series for it to be presented. The servant of 10 talents was given more, which doesn’t have to be a one and done reaction.

The passage totally describes a progressive testing system. It’s not a non-progressive testing system because the series ends at the second iteration! Put one foot in front of the other does not end with your second foot. Rather it describes a series. Honestly, I don’t know what kind of...

Hasn‘t this been done to death? Anything new to add to the literal 100’s of pages of discussion and debate?

It’s in vogue to shift accountability for your brokenness. A recent mistrial in Massachusetts of a woman who admitted to killing her 3 kids caused one commentator say we must to resist the trend to medicalize evil.

In my experience, people are primarily dishonest with themselves. Lying to others is merely a consequence. The dishonesty is most obviously shown by not answering a question that reveals their error. Therefore, sharing something that one believes is true but is actually false is easy to resolve...

Each time? Matthew 25:21 lays the foundation of progressive structure. This is true even if it identifies one test and 2 states or conditions: a little responsibility BEFORE passing the test and ‘more’ after. There is no reason to suppose this cannot be repeated, more and more and more. In our...

Semantics. They mean the same thing. Other than different words, how are you taking the meaning to be different?

BS. Odoro Amoris. God. Family. Country. See Romans 13.

Jesus taught violence and will model more violence than any human in history; what are you talking about? The absurdity of the pacifist argument is the use the most violent person of all time as the ultimate standard of pacifist ideology,

Another verse undermining certainly, Luke 21:19 By your endurance you will gain your souls. Why do we have to endure if Jesus did it all?

This thread is a variant of what is the purpose of life. While karma is a well known eastern concept meaning cause and effect simultaneously, with a Biblical equivalent of what you sow is what you reap, there is no Biblical equivalent to dharma. Dharma is the work you were meant to do, one that...

I’m not sure how you are differentiating what I said compared to Jesus? Are you thinking test and faithfulness have different meaning in context?

Maybe it is you who sadly deny the parables of the Minas and Talents is about divine justice?

Seems the sense of angel is at issue: A species of heavenly being A messenger from God I tend to defer to the first sense because when it is a man, we tend to use another word, prophet.

Such prudence goes against PC perversion of equality in destroying one’s capacity of discernment via SHAMING LANGUAGE. If you judge based on looks, including looking suspicious, you are a racist, sexist, Islamophobe, homophobe, etc - so they say. People are so hoodwinked, they’d rather put...

No gaslighting except by the defense. Circular Reasoning. I’m right because I said I’m right. If you do t accept the proof, that’s on you.

How do you reconcile this interpretation with our Lord telling us to fear the one who can destroy the soul as well as the body?

Spirit led reading brought me to these verses that don't support certainty: 1 Peter 2:2 Grow in salvation 1 John 4:17 MAY have confidence (not certainty)

OK. This is the universal command that I should have quoted in the OP. Luke 14:33 NRSV So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all your possessions. Can any of us say we are truly Christ's disciple by this standard?

I came across this verse in my daily reading today that is spot on and shows the heart of our Lord in using violence to establish justice. Luke 19:27 And these enemies of mine who didn’t want me to rule over them—bring them here and execute them in my presence.” I look forward to all the...