Zone1 What is the message of the parables in Matthew 25?

[HikerGuy83]

Yet you can't answer my questions.

I won't answer them because they are both leading and irrelevant.

In other words, you never knew and don't know what it means. What a revelation.

Where did you get your mind reading degree?

Well, everybody has an....opinion.

Including you.

That is a stupid way to find out what is really being said.

Looking for a conversation is stupid. Got it.

I am a Christian responding to your stupid requests.

Yeah....you have Christian written all over you.

You like to make requests, but you don't like to answer others questions.

I created a thread and opened it up to discussion. I clearly state my approach to the verses.

You overestimate yourself.

And, as I said, I don't answer questions, especially from idiots that call my questions stupid. Go be a Christian somewhere else.I bother replying to show the shallowness of your op
Yeah....nothing like acting superior when you aren't.

You don't care how the Scriptures are interpreted?

By who? You? Now, I could really care less.

That is my point.

Do me a favor. Stop trying.

You've failed to make a clear point and I am beyond giving you any more time.

Yet you ask, 'why is Christendom so fouled up'.

That wasn't a question.

Better stick to your emojis. Plenty of 'emoji queens' on this sight. You should feel right at home.

Telling people what to do now?

Like I said....no more time for you.

 

[SweetSue92]

Matthew 25 is 3 parables.

The parable of the ten virgins
The parable of the talents
The parable of the sheeps and goats

Each of these speaks of a division of people/worshippers (whatever you want to call them) based on specific conditions and actions.

In the parable of the ten virgins, the virgins with oil went into the wedding. They COULD NOT share that oil. It had to be obtained by each of them. What does that oil represent?

In the parable of the talents, the first two servants went to work and doubled their master's money. The third, a faithless one, didn't put his master's money to use and wound up in the dark and cold.

In the parable of the sheep and goats. Division was basically based on how we treated others.

These were all works. Christian writers talk about the need to "be close to God", to "show faith through works", to constantly connect with God (i.e. pray which is as much a work as anything).

The other parables are even more clear. Use it or lose it. Visit those in prison, feed the needy......works.

Let's hear how that isn't the case.

Because you can do all of those things for Allah...or Buddha....or any made up god. You can--as the OT explains--do that outwardly to "save yourself" but have a heart far, far from God.

If, however, these acts flow from a love for and dedication to God? All the difference

 

[SweetSue92]

You neglected to mention the Good Samaritan. The man who took in the stranger. Paid his medical bills. Restored his health. With no expectation of being repaid.

Samaritans were considered to be enemies of the Jews and yet the Good Samaritan helped the Jew.

Jesus said that what you have done to the least among you, you have done to Me.

You might want to rethink your treatment of refugees in the richest nation on earth.

Seriously.

Great. How many have you taken in, yourself? Short of that how many have you fed of your own effort and your own money?