Yes, I know what analogies and metaphors are. Analogies and metaphors are not always good analogies and metaphors.
When
@Arial said,
"and I can only have one", that negated the analogy of having any rational reference or relation to God. Scripture never says or suggests that there is any preassigned limit to the number of those whom God can or will save. Further discussion of the analogy would be meaningless, or even worse it would lead to the wrong conclusion, which in the case of the post #125 it did.
Hi Jim .
I would offer from another perspective or avenue'
As many as the Father had given to the Son. They alone empowered by the Father can come .Not one more or less
Follow the etched in stone law. . . the
paper trail
Three books .
(1) The bible .The source of the faith (power).. . .
Christ's labor of love as
it is faithfully
written
(2) The book of
life, every name written down of that he would create (let there be)
(3) The
lambs book of
life the names of born again
believers
Whosever name is not fond in the
lambs book of
life will be erased from the book of life all of mankind . When the two books are compared they will be the same .Those elected from the foundation written in both books . It would be like they were never born
Christ the husband was slain as the lamb of God from the foundation .The 6 days he did work. Outwardly demonstrated three days and nights thousands of years later, in the valley garden of Gethemenane and the hill of the Skull
Judas' name was written in the book of life, but was later blotted out.
First spoken of in Daniel
Daniel 12:1-3King James Version And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered,
every one that shall be found written in the book. And
many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
some to
everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
Revlation13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the
book of
life of the
Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.
Psalms69: 28 Let them be
blotted out of the
book of the
living, and
not be written with the
righteous.
Jesus demonstrating writing and erasing .Power of life and death
John 8:6-8 King James Version This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with
his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And
again he stooped down, and
wrote on the ground.
Again follow the
two paper trails . Two the word that denotes one God has spoken
Christ on Mount Sinai etched out
two tablets wrote with his finger (let there be) on both, two sides with no room for I heard it through the grape vine. Oral traditons
When he came down they were worshiping oral traditons. Christ moved Moses to brake the first two tablets that represent covenant of law death .And had Moses hewn out two new tablets to represent the new testament both working as one. Then again with the finger of God Christ wrote the same words writen on
both sides with no room for orals traditons.
A person could say; to the law and its witness the prophets (sola scriptura) Or to Moses the law giver and Elias to represent the prophets
Peter a sign and wonder seeker misunderstood the parable the spiritual understanding hid .Peter thought he could box in a eternal Spirit
Matthew 17:3And, behold, there appeared unto them
Moses and
Elias talking with him. Then answered
Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for
Moses, and one for
Elias
