Parable of the Talents

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Could someone please explain this to me?

I was debating a Protestant, using this as a salvation verse, and he was saying this is merely Jesus telling us how we should be good stewarts of what we have.

But wailing and grinding of teeth is always used as hell. I couldn’t think of what to compare it to at the time, but it was the parable of the weeds. (Matt 13:42) he using the same thing to describe hell, in what is CLEARLY a salvation verse.

Any thoughts or comments here? Does that appear anywhere else in Scripture?

Adam

 

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Could someone please explain this to me?

I was debating a Protestant, using this as a salvation verse, and he was saying this is merely Jesus telling us how we should be good stewarts of what we have.

But wailing and grinding of teeth is always used as hell. I couldn’t think of what to compare it to at the time, but it was the parable of the weeds. (Matt 13:42) he using the same thing to describe hell, in what is CLEARLY a salvation verse.

Any thoughts or comments here? Does that appear anywhere else in Scripture?

Adam

Here are the ones I found (from the KJV):

Mt 8:12 -
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mt 13:42 -
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Mt 13:50 -
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Mt 22:13 -
Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mt 24:51 -
And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mt 25:30 -
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Lu 13:28 -
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

Your friend is right, in that the parable of the talents is about stewardship. But he is wrong if he thinks it is only about stewardship. It is also about *consequences * and, as you point out, the clear consequence of not accepting and using the graces that God gives us is to risk being shut out of the kingdom, to our eternal remorse.