Originally Posted by
Miss Annie
Because today has nothing to do with the passage. You are trying to pull me into a debate that I do not wish to have - that simple. I do not wish to debate replacement theology. Replacement theology is totally irrelevant to this passage - PERIOD. I have made that perfectly clear. That has nothing - nothing whatsoever to do with the passage that the verse in it that you originally quoted to me. "Many are called, but few are chosen".
And again.......
The passage is the parable of the wedding feast...... Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. The Jews were the guests that the feast was prepared for. The Jews did not respond to the invitation so Jesus was demonstrating that since the Jews did not respond to the invitation of the feast, that He - the Jewish Messiah would then send for guests to come from the streets - The Gentiles.
If you read the passage in it's entirety and not try to take it out of context one comes to the logical conclusion that the Jews are the chosen (as Jesus was - and still is - the Jewish Messiah) and the Gentiles are the called. The Gentiles were called from the streets.
If one wants to truly understand the scriptures....... Don't remove them from their context. The Jews are the chosen, and the Gentiles are the called.
Mt 22:1 ¶ And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
Mt 22:2 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
Mt 22:3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Mt 22:4 Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
Mt 22:5 But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
Mt 22:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Mt 22:7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Mt 22:8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Mt 22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
Mt 22:10 So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
Mt 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Mt 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
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 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
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