Originally posted by galveston75
I'm looking for no such thing but only here to show the truth of the Bible. And credibility is the last worry on my mind with you.... Actually nothing you've said yet has had credibility so your'e the one that has lacked in that area.
if he actually made reference to the text of the Bible, you would think he might do
better. I simply cannot be bothered arguing with him, i dont need it, life's too short
for fussing and fighting. The fact of the matter is, and why this escapes his notice
God only knows, is that Christ foretold a great apostasy, a mingling of truth and
falsehood.
(Matthew 13:24-30) . . .Another illustration he set before them, saying: “The
kingdom of the heavens has become like a man that sowed fine seed in his field.
While men were sleeping, his enemy came and oversowed weeds in among the
wheat, and left. When the blade sprouted and produced fruit, then the weeds
appeared also. So the slaves of the householder came up and said to him, ‘Master,
did you not sow fine seed in your field? How, then, does it come to have weeds?’
He said to them, ‘An enemy, a man, did this.’ They said to him, ‘Do you want us,
then, to go out and collect them?’ He said, ‘No; that by no chance, while collecting
the weeds, you uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the
harvest; and in the harvest season I will tell the reapers, First collect the weeds and
bind them in bundles to burn them up, then go to gathering the wheat into my
storehouse.’”
(Matthew 13:36-43) . . .And his disciples came to him and said: “Explain to us the
illustration of the weeds in the field.” In response he said: “The sower of the fine
seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; as for the fine seed, these are the
sons of the kingdom; but the weeds are the sons of the wicked one, and the enemy
that sowed them is the Devil. The harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and
the reapers are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with
fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. The Son of man will send
forth his angels, and they will collect out from his kingdom all things that cause
stumbling and persons who are doing lawlessness, and they will pitch them into the
fiery furnace. There is where [their] weeping and the gnashing of [their] teeth will
be. At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the kingdom of
their Father. Let him that has ears listen.
Is Jesus here being exclusive, let him answer the question in the face of scripture.
Let him identify who the wheat are and who the weeds are, for clearly, as the Christ
states, it would not become apparent until a conclusions of the system.