King Solomon and sebastious seem to be the type that like to argue over 'words' and grammar and fallacies instead of the subject at hand.
As per your request I have presented to you an argument in regards to the Faithful and Discreet Slave Biblical parable. I have described to you my belief and have shown you a real world example of how I believe the parable is playing out today as well as extensive evidence as to why the parable points to the Watchtower as the "evil slave" and not the "faithful slave." To say my argument is merely semantics is just a cop out and shows that you don't have anything meaningful to say on the matter.
To sebastious: I really do not care to argue tit-for-tat about every little sentence I post about the scripture. This thread was not made for the purpose of arguing in circles about Matthew being God's word...maybe it's not...your painting a bad picture of apostates...etc. That is so tedious and pointless. Debate about the scripture/what I've presented or I won't be engaging in any further discussion with you as it's obvious you and your apostabuddies dont have a real case against JW's.
To argue about the validity of Matthew in this thread would be off topic, but that doesn't mean that the validity of Matthew cannot, in any way, ever be pertinent to this discussion. I am curious as to why you think that this discussion ever veered out of the topic of scripture. Every time you have said that people are veering away from scripture they certainly were not, becuase the topic is specifically an actual scripture.
Let me give you a rundown of the interpretation again verse by verse this time:
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time?
The parable starts out with a question and within the question is where the "food at the proper time" is mentioned. Never is the faithful slave identified, only refered to. Neither is the process of which the food is created mentioned. Jesus is asking "who is providing the food at the proper time?" Within the question he sets up the scene by identifying a "master", his "household" and his "servants".
46 It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.
Jesus is simply saying that good things will come to the faithful and wise servant when the master returns. This is the first time the concept of leaving and returning is mentioned.
47 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
Jesus is saying that upon returning the master will put the faithful servant in charge of all his possessions. We see a reward being given to the slave for being faithful to the master while he was away. Masters depend on their slaves when they are away, so they have to develop a level of trust.
48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’
Now we are introduced to another mode of the faithful servant: wicked. The wicked servant is given a property of impatience. The master has to trust his slaves, like I said, but in order to figure that out they have to be tested somehow. This is what the depature is accomplishing. It's effectively separating the faithful from the wicked slaves. "While the cat's away the mice will play."
49 and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards.
We are being given a cause and effect of the wicked servant's inner conflict with the master's departure. The master is greater than all the slaves so the slaves will have to make due while the master is away. This is not an easy task and eventually some slaves are said to "crack" and start to beat their fellow slaves.
50 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of.
Notice that the master does not come at an hour that the faithful slave is unaware of, but only the evil slave. Because the faithful slave will be "keeping on the watch", whereas the evil slave we be asleep, which is a related parable stated in the same chapter. The faithful slave doesn't know the hour the master will return, but they are faithful and feed the slaves patiently and enduringly while maintaining the proper prudence in the scenario they are thrust into. The evil slave will be caught completely unaware because they are in their own fantasy delusion brought on by their wicked impatience.
51 He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The evil slave is said to be gnashing their teeth when exposed and punished by the master upon returning. For they have been abusing the master's slaves for a very long time all the while fully beliving that THEY were the faithful slaves. Why do you think the wicked slaves feel justified in beating their fellow slaves? Because they have PREMATURELY identified themselves as the faithful slave and it's creating a POWER STRUGGLE of which has be won BY FORCE (because no one can know for sure). This is exactly what the Watchtower has done with the Bible and what it has to offer mankind. They have positioned themselves in the "seat of Moses" and if anyone questions them they beat them into submission or beat them out of their organization.
Here is a very good video describing exactly how the Watchtower fraudulently assumed the position of Faith and Wise Steward by changing the Bible itself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-JlSDGbCw
-Sab