When I was 5 years old, still at pre-school, I acted as King Solomon, acting out 1 Kings 3:16-28. Today, 22 years later, I read this Scripture, and I am beginning to see the following. Please correct me if I am not seeing correctly.
a. The king has the baby in his hands. He can kill the baby if he wants to but he can also save the baby if he wants to. He is the king and his decision will be final. The baby's fate rests within the hand of this man, yet he chooses, indirectly to give the fate of the baby into the hands of these women, by gauging their love for the baby. If the women love the baby, then they will do whatever it takes to save the baby.
b. The one woman doesn't care whether the baby lives or not. She has no love for the baby.
c. The other loves the baby so much that she would rather save it by "losing" it. She puts the baby's well-being before hers, that is, may the baby live even though she will be given to someone else.
Correct me if I am wrong isn't the King, Jesus, the Judge? The baby, the sinner? The woman without love, the "hell" preaching cults? And the woman with love, the "elect"?
The woman without love is doing the same as that which "christians" are doing today, that is, they don't care about the "baby" (the one at the mercy of the king). To them, the one who is in the hands of the king, may as well go to hell. They don't want to try even to plead that the king may have mercy and save the sinner/baby.
The other woman wants nothing but to see the baby alive and well in "heaven". That's all she wants, and that is because she loves the baby/sinner?
Please hear me, spiritually, and if there be anywhere that I need correction, please do so.
With love,
Tebza