Sistah Khnumet, you don't mind if I interrupt your thread for a second, do you! (Smile)Slowly said:Because they take it a line at a time and you shouldn't do that. If you add the 10 lines before and after it will turn into a question.
Now based on what you said in the previous post, do you mean to tell me that Verse 14 has something to do with the previous 13 verses? Or is it not right, and should be read/recognized line-by-line?Matthew 22 - Talking about the Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
5"But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' 10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
13"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
NOW READ VERSE 14...
14"For many are invited, but few are chosen."
It is a requirement of that christianity cult. Otherwise they would recognize that "The Word of God" is only the first five books (Torah, Penteteusch, Books of Moses), and all the rest are recounts of the way that the Word was/is ignored. And that all this "new testament" stuff is an even further "Falling Away From Grace". But why let a silly little thing like truth/facts/honesty get in the way of mind control?river said:Why does reading the bible have such an adverse effecct on people's reading comprehension skills?
Oh, drat! <sigh> Oh, Kobena; I would so much wish that you meant to say "nothing" instead of "something"?Cedric Denson said:Sistah Khnumet, you don't mind if I interrupt your thread for a second, do you! (Smile)
Alright, now a question for Slowly:
Read the following "Bible" selection please...Matthew 22 - Talking about the Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: 2"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 3He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
4"Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'
5"But they paid no attention and went off—one to his field, another to his business. 6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them. 7The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
8"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. 9Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.' 10So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11"But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. 12'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.
13"Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
NOW READ VERSE 14...
14"For many are invited, but few are chosen."
Now based on what you said in the previous post, do you mean to tell me that Verse 14 has something to do with the previous 13 verses? Or is it not right, and should be read/recognized line-by-line?
Better yet - if they are sequential, Why does the whole "Bible" have numbers by the scriptures in the first place, if it is not to be read line-by-line?
Just curious. Answer as you please.
KD