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Parable of the Nobleman?
claypot:
Email reply from Ray (http://www.forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,166.0.html):
Dear Wes:
My statement that all parables are the same parable is not based on one verse. That one verse is merely a signpost to that conclusion. If you look at every single parable individually, it is speaking of the same thing. One day I will go through many of them so that you will see this fact. There are many more parables than those listed by theologians as parables. The whole of Christ's teachings is one giant parable. I have even gone so far as to say that the entire Bible is one giant PARALBE, first stated in parabolic form in Gen. 1.
God be with you,
Ray
I so agree with Ray here about the whole of Christ's teachings being one giant parable AND where Ray says the the entire Bible, starting with Genesis (Adam, Eve and Serpent and so on) is parabolic. Amaazing insight IMO.
cp
arion:
Yep, the parables are all one and the same....just from a little different perspective each time. This was one of the greatest truths that I have learned through the teachings here. Each and every one is about the few and the many, the called and the chosen.
claypot:
Many are called and few chosen.
In this parable I see the opposite. I see 2 chosen and 1 'called' or rejected. Exponentially this would work out to many chosen and few called. Any writings of Ray's on this particular aspect?
Am I missing something here?
I do agree with Ray that all the parables have the same goal.
cp
Lupac:
All 10 of the servants are the "chosen", the citizens are the many called, I think. What about Luke 19:27? What does the "slaying" symbolize? (I'm guessing God's judgments, right?)
mharrell08:
--- Quote from: claypot on March 26, 2010, 09:59:05 AM ---Many are called and few chosen.
In this parable I see the opposite. I see 2 chosen and 1 'called' or rejected. Exponentially this would work out to many chosen and few called. Any writings of Ray's on this particular aspect?
Am I missing something here?
--- End quote ---
No, Ray does not teach that it is many chosen and few called. The scriptures state:
Matt 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
Matt 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
Just because the ratio in this parable was 2 chosen vs. 1 called, does not mean that is the absolute ratio for all mankind. The Lord is not teaching ratios, He is teaching what it is to DO the Will of God.
--- Quote from: Lupac on March 26, 2010, 10:16:09 AM ---All 10 of the servants are the "chosen", the citizens are the many called, I think. What about Luke 19:27? What does the "slaying" symbolize? (I'm guessing God's judgments, right?)
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No, all 10 servants are not chosen seeing how one was wicked and disobedient.
Slaying, judgment, dying to the flesh, mortifying the deeds of the body, etc...yes that would seem to fit.
Marques
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