Some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty

[ScottA]

You still assume that the “thirty fold, sixty fold, one hundredfold” is chronological, but the scriptures say a crop, not successive crops throughout an expanse of time.


Matthew 13:8

Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.



Scripture does not say “thirty fold, then sixty fold, and later one hundredfold”.

The different yields occur at one harvest in one moment of time.


Mark 4:20

And these are they which are sown on good ground, such as hear the Word and receive it and bring forth fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.

So in Mark the different yields are produced by “such as hear the Word and receive it”, thus different individuals produce different yields.

You are close, but have not put it together.

The difference that you are not accounting for is "but each one in his own order."

Indeed, you are correct to say that there is only one crop--but when I have said that to many here, explaining that the difference is the eternal (timeless, one-time) perspective of God, compared with the times of this world where the crop comes "but each one in his own order" according to Paul--most have denied both. Both of which many here, including yourself, have rejected, when all I did was repeat what is written but never considered properly.

So, to deny the one and also deny the other--which you have now done on both accounts--is to deny yourself and God who set them both before the church to be "rightly divided"--not categorically denied.

 

[ScottA]

God is sovereign over His Word. You are not. Paul wrote by the Holy Spirit as an apostle of Jesus Christ. Your claim that “here it’s me whether you like it or believe it or not” does not place your interpretation in the same category as inspired Scripture. That is an enormous claim, and Scripture does not tell believers to accept such claims merely because someone makes them.

It is not for you to decide, nor apparently, even to know.

Either way--that is how God operates, that is His method. Like I said--you don't have to like it or believe it--but He has established it as such. Meanwhile, you are not just rejecting me, but Him who sent me. That's how this works.