Question Regarding Faithful & Wise Servant Being An Individual

by lambsbottom 9 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • lambsbottom
    lambsbottom

    Have a Bible question. Been reading the arguments for the "Faithful & Wise servant" of Mt. 25:45-51 being an individual versus a "class" or group of Christians.

    45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant,[a] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. 47 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions. 48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants[b]and eats and drinks with drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

    Any arguments to show it is not an individual. Just want to see both sides of the coin.

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  • EndofMysteries
    EndofMysteries

    You know how in the gospels many parts are repeated, some illustrations have brief summaries and some in the other gospels had more details. W/ the faithful slave scripture in Matt 24. the WT PURPOSELY avoids ever mentioning the FULL version in Luke 12:42-48 because the full version shows beyond a doubt that it's a parable just like the bride grooms, just like the slaves given money and what they do with it, etc.

    If you notice in the Luke version, The one who knows what he was to do and DID it is rewarded well. Then an evil slave, then the slave who knew what he was to do but did not do it getting punished, and then the slave who did NOT know what he was to do so even though deserving punishment will be slap on a wrist.

    So the full version in Luke throws away the societies explanation!

  • sir82
    sir82

    It doesn't "represent" anything. It's not a prophecy.

    It's a parable - a made-up story.

    It is there to teach a moral lesson.

    The end. Full stop.

  • cappytan
    cappytan

    I tend to agree with the "it's a parable, not a prophecy" crowd.

    See the parallel account in Luke 12:41, 42. Peter refers to it as an "illustration" (rNWT). Other translations and versions render that word "parable."

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown
    Yep, parable.
  • tim3l0rd
    tim3l0rd
    According to AMIII's latest video, it's "obvious" that it is a "composite slave". Yep.... So. Very. Obvious.
  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown

    Don't you love the way they think that if they preface a made up statement with something like "it's obvious" then that makes it so.

    Who do they think they are? Captain Kirk?

    "Make it so"

  • TTWSYF
    TTWSYF

    Sparrow, 'make it so' was Picard

    just saying

  • sparrowdown
    sparrowdown
    Oh yeah, thanks TTWSYF.

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