The parable of the lost sheep and the goats.

[Ben1445]

I don't see how this constitutes "new doctrine", as to me, they are making mention of the same group of people...
Christ's "sheep", I.E. all that are saved.

Not new in the sense of recent. New as in not Scriptural. It isn’t that I don’t think you understood me. I just want to be clear. I am aware that this is not a brand new idea. I don’t see where Jesus taught what Calvinism does. It is a conglomeration of several of Jesus’ teachings that are matched up in a way that is not parallel. It is poor topical exegesis.

Please allow me to give my own personal understanding of each passage, and I hope you'll see how they relate to one another.

I don’t doubt that there are relations. Calvinism is just not looking at the picture correctly as it smashes two pieces of the puzzle together that don’t match.

1) In the parable of the lost sheep, the Lord Jesus is likening Himself to the shepherd ( see John 10:1-16 where He declares Himself to be the Good Shepherd ), while the "sheep" are His people.

The lost sheep are not in His possession. They are lost. They are astray. Lost sheep don’t believe in Jesus or they would not be lost. If a lost sheep dies lost, it is lost. This is an idea so simple and yet foreign to Calvinism that it would not ever be considered. It is considered heretical to a Calvinist and the ridicule of other Calvinist teachers keeps you in check. You would never want to be accused of not persevering.

This we can readily know from all the references in which the Lord Jesus describes His disciples, those that have believed on Him and that the Father has given to Him ( John 6:65, John 17:2, etc )... as "His sheep", such as this one:

" Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand. " ( John 10:25-28 ).

Don’t add more topical preaching and muddy the water. You can’t even match the unrighteous with the righteous and the righteous with the righteous with only two texts to worry about.
But if that is what you really want to do, you might want to reconsider your approach to study.
Words in different passages when presented as simile or metaphor do not always mean the same thing.
Jesus is described as a lion. The devil is described as a lion. That doesn’t make them the same.

So, in the parable of the lost sheep, He is telling us that God loves His elect so much that He's willing to go out and seek them ( and find them ) wherever they are, and rescue them from all evil, bringing them back into the fold.

It doesn’t say that. You did.
Election is adoption, the redemption of our bodies. (See Romans 8.)

2) In the parable of the sheep and goats, the "sheep" ( those who are on His right hand, a position of honor with God and are declared as "the righteous" ) are those He has saved...they are those for whom the kingdom was prepared from ( at the time of ) the foundation of the world. The "goats" ( those who are on His left hand, and declared to be cursed ), are those who have not believed on Christ, are not His elect, and were never given to Him by His Father to save.

According to you, they were never allowed to believe on Christ. Jesus didn’t die for them. God made them to be sinners so that He could be glorified by destroying the sin that He made.

This is not the reality of the God who gave himself as the sacrifice for mankind. This is not a God, rich in mercy. It’s a god selective in mercy.

They are those who shall go away into everlasting punishment, which is also that same everlasting punishment that is reserved for the devil and his angels.

They might just as well be the devil and his angels if they are not given any opportunity to be forgiven.

God offered salvation to all men in Adam. God came and sought Adam. In the first Adam, all are made sinners. In the Second Adam, all can be made righteous. The majority will not cease from their own works and trust God. This doesn’t limit God’s ability to save all men. He is able to save to the uttermost. It limits who He will save. When any man rejects salvation offered by Jesus, he bears his own responsibility. When any person retains his own responsibility for perseverance to the end, he is not resting from his own works.
True faith, true belief, is to stop trusting any knowledge, work, goodness, or anything other than what Jesus has done. It is to believe that Jesus has paid the debt of sin and that the payment is acceptable in the sight of the Father. It is not what some people think of as some kind of Indiana Jones puzzle that when figured out makes the magic happen. This sort of approach is a Calvinist made up idea to ridicule the free will that God has given man. (I have never actually been told that it is Indiana Jones salvation. It just sounds like what I have been accused of for “figuring out” how to be saved.)