Part 2: OK... I still have these nagging questions:

Wouldn't doing a bad job at work be analogous to being a slothful servant?

Matthew 25:26-30
26 His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed:
27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28 Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29 For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Oh, but thats right, Jesus' parables don't hold a candle to the ones that you guys tell.

 

...um...the one where it states we will "suffer loss"?

 

The slothful servant was not a believer. You cannot assume "servant" in a parable is speaking of a believer, as your camp so often does.

 

Alright. Where are you getting your definition of what "suffer loss" will be? What makes you believe that a disobedient child of God will become unemployed at the JSOC?

 

If my son disobeyed me today, for how many weeks should I put him in a hot shed full of yellowjackets as punishment?

 

Where are you getting your thousand years in outer darkness/hell from?

 

What kind of analogy is this?

If I don't water the flowers, what happens? I loose the flowers.

So can I now say that the reward for bad works is loss of flowers?

 

Then I guess neither is the lazy Christian who loses his job.

 

He pulled it out of his ash tray. You know, the one where the fire is not quenched...

 

Matthew 25.

 

suffer loss of a job........... umm......... Survey says XXX

 

Can you give me an example where Jesus called an unsaved man His servant in which He gave His goods to?

 

Silly me... I skipped over that chapter.

 

With his "analogy" comes interesting ideas.
I guess that guy who lost his job because of laziness was allowed tocome back to the company everyday and just sat around in the break room eating twinkies?

I would say that with this analogy would come a casting out from the company, I would also say he lost his benefits, 401K, and vacation time?

Is this part of your analogy webdog?

 

I don't know but I would believe whole heartedly that it wouldn't be for an eternity!

Question, is that in the Good news for modern man? I haven't seen yellowjackets in Hell.:wavey:

 

It's more like the man who owns a large company and his lazy son-in-law. He just gives him a big fat paycheck for sitting at a desk making origami because he doesn't want his daughter to starve.

 

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, here comes James!:laugh: :laugh:

 

That is a poor comparison.

If you preach the whole gospel, you will have to start with the sinful and hopeless condition of the sinner who will suffer in hell for eternity without Christ. This is the bad news. Then you move on to the good news, that Christ took his punishment and through his faith in that fact and his acceptance that he is a sinner in need of savior, he will be saved.

THAT is the gospel. Pure and simple. Nothing left out.