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Originally Posted by A little brother
How do we know the ones cast out to outer darkness are believers? Just because of the term "servant"?
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I don't know that anyone answered this, did they?
If you are asking regarding the three servants Jesus spoke of in Matthew 25, then
yes, these are those who all knew the Lord. In verse 14 it says that the master called his own to him and they were all given talents. They were all aware that their master has gone away and would return. Two are faithful and show a profit to return to their master, and they are thereby praised and rewarded. The third servant had a skewed view of his master, feared him and was unfaithful. He received a rebuke, his portion was taken away, and he was cast into outer darkness.
How long was the unfaithful servant in outer darkness? It doesn't say.