Outer darkness: A thousand years? or for eternity?

ABrotherinFaith · 01-31-2014, 02:47 PM

OBW,
Your posts #16 & #18 have really made me think. I've been thinking a lot about overcomers lately and how the LC has interpreted them...(has a lot to do with outer darkness and the thousand years)

In post # 16 you mention the parable of the slave given over to the tortures until he pays back what he owes.

Previously to this, wasn't he forgiven? Matt. 18:27 says, Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt.
Isn't the final act, that of throwing him into prison and torturing him evidence that the forgiveness has been reversed?
Also, how should we read/interpret the torture? And if torture can cause us to pay back something doesn't that come close to God forcing people to conform..in some way? What is it that we can pay back to God that in the end only torture could get out of us?

I don't think I can lose my salvation once I've truly believed.

01-31-2014, 02:47 PM	#12
ABrotherinFaith Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 100	Re: Outer darkness: A thousand years? or for eternity? OBW, Your posts #16 & #18 have really made me think. I've been thinking a lot about overcomers lately and how the LC has interpreted them...(has a lot to do with outer darkness and the thousand years) In post # 16 you mention the parable of the slave given over to the tortures until he pays back what he owes. Previously to this, wasn't he forgiven? Matt. 18:27 says, Then his master was filled with pity for him, and he released him and forgave his debt. Isn't the final act, that of throwing him into prison and torturing him evidence that the forgiveness has been reversed? Also, how should we read/interpret the torture? And if torture can cause us to pay back something doesn't that come close to God forcing people to conform..in some way? What is it that we can pay back to God that in the end only torture could get out of us? I don't think I can lose my salvation once I've truly believed.