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Originally Posted by Drake
StG,
You may be thinking about these verses:
Matthew 5:25-26: "Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing."
This may allow for some variation of the final farthing (one cent) payment according to the amount owed. God is righteous and the rewards and punishments He issues are variable. Perhaps that applies to the time in "prison".
Drake
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That's actually not a bad passage to support the contention of time in outer darkness! As you said,
it also allows for some variability with the length of time (not just 1000 years).
So someone builds with all six things in 1st Corinthians 3 (wood, hay, stubble, gold, silver, precious stone), as I suspect will be the case with most all of us. The building work is tested by fire. I suspect most all of us will suffer some loss with burnable things we've built with. Is there some percentage point of works that are burned (compared to the total) when we then wind-up going into the outer darkness, like 25%, 50%, 75% or what?
He does tell the two faithful servants in Matthew 25 that they were "faithful in a
few things, enter into the joy of Your Lord."
My point is we often think we have to be "Faith SuperSaints" in order to get the reward and not go to outer darkness. (Accordingly, what about Sampson who messed up a lot, yet ended his life well and got mentioned in the Hebrews 11 faithful list?)