I'm sure that, like most JW's, you only had Tallymans best interests in mind.
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WHY ALAN FRAUDBACKER IS DOOMED!
by You Know 90 Replies latest jw friends
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No, Tallyman did not murder his brother. It was proved in court that he killed his brother in self-defense.
Yeah, right. And OJ didn't slit his wife's throat either. Sorry, Mr. Fraudbaker, but Talisman was taking about Jehovah's judgment and that's a whole different court system. / You Know
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You Know
The parable doesn't say anything about teaching the domestics, just feeding them.
In the parable the slave is PUT IN CHARGE. In fact he is APPOINTED to a specific duty. That simply doesn't apply to all Christians. You are very much mistaken. / You Know
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You Know
Robert, your reply to Tom was vicious and nasty, and untruthful
It wasn't meant to be. I only wanted to draw attention to his hypocrisy. He doesn't have a lot of room to point the finger at anyone. But of course, like Jesus said, the world is fond of what is it's own, so it's understandable why the accursed children would so vehemently defend a murderer. / You Know
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In the parable the slave is PUT IN CHARGE. In fact he is APPOINTED to a specific duty. That simply doesn't apply to all Christians. You are very much mistaken.
No, I'm not mistaken, for it is just a parable, like all the other parables Jesus taught. You are not running around looking for literal pearls, are you? What if Jesus had told the parable this way: that a slave was digging a ditch, and he did such a fine job, his master had him tend the master's private garden as a reward? Would you apply this to digging for spiritual food, and that this refers to a class of spiritual diggers who provide a garden of bountiful goodness?
If you are going to read into the parable a greater fulfillment, you have to provide some evidence that this is what Jesus meant. You are doing the same thing householders do at the door to JWs when JWs ask them to read a scripture that disproves the trinity. When the householder is done, the JW asks what it says. The householder responds, "Well, it says such-and-so, but what it means is this." And the JW responds back, "Yes, but what does it say?"
You are saying, "I know it's a parable, but this particular parable really means this," without giving evidence to back this claim, the same way the householder tried to do it.
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In the parable the slave is PUT IN CHARGE. In fact he is APPOINTED to a specific duty.
Are you talking about this "APPOINTED" slave? Gee, I thought the slave that pleased the master got it right . . .
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Parables are not just cute little stories. They have meaning. Jesus explained some of his parables to his disciples and they had quite specific meanings attached to them. The whole FDS parable centers around an appointment. It is not just a task that an indiscript slave has assigned to him, but he is appointed in a official capacity over the entire houshold of God. The parable reveals that the slave must answer to his master as to how he cares for his appointment. Not only that, but the parable only has application to a particular time---during Christ's presence. So, you either lack the intelligence to grasp to complexities of Christ's parable, or you are simply perversely opposed to its true explanation. It doesn't really matter which it is as far as I'm concerned. / You Know
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Why would Jesus use a parable to communicate such an important plan?
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Parables are not just cute little stories. They have meaning. Jesus explained some of his parables to his disciples and they had quite specific meanings attached to them.
I agree and never said otherwise. In fact, that's the point that Alan made, that this parable has meaning to all Christians. Where we are disagreeing is that this parable has some literal blueprint to follow, any more than we should be looking for literal pearls.
The whole FDS parable centers around an appointment. It is not just a task that an indiscript slave has assigned to him, but he is appointed in a official capacity over the entire houshold of God.
Ah, here you diverge from the scripture. In the parable, it doesn't talk about the "household of God", but merely the household of the master in the illustration. You apply it to God, but it doesn't say that in the parable itself.
The parable reveals that the slave must answer to his master as to how he cares for his appointment. Not only that, but the parable only has application to a particular time---during Christ's presence.
I agree with that completely. The difference is that you apply it to only some Christians, whereas we are saying the parable has principles for all Christians to follow.
So, you either lack the intelligence to grasp to complexities of Christ's parable, or you are simply perversely opposed to its true explanation. It doesn't really matter which it is as far as I'm concerned.
A false dilemma followed by your usual lack of concern for others. In fact, there is a third possibility: that you are reading more into a parable than Jesus ever meant. Unless you provide evidence to back your claim, we will take what Jesus said as being what he meant.
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Tallyman
Have you figured out the tonnage of your Judgment, Boobie?
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Aren't you the guy that murdered his own brother a while back? / You Know
No, no, Boobie. You must have me mixed up with The Composite Guy, your very own Governing Body.
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