ArchivedPurgatory presents a problem.Hello my friend, if i may. The contrast in verse 28, where the same servant is unwilling to forgive his fellow servant a debt of a hundred pence{10 dollars}, is deliberately presented as a hypothetical situation. As unbelieveable as the action would be, that is how unbelieveable it would be for a christian disciple, who has been forgiven for a lifetime of sin, to be unforgiving to others. In this story such a servant is called a wicked servant because no true believer would do such a thing. A truly saved person would never behave like the man in the story, who was delivered to the tormentors{Gr. basanistes}"torturers or jailers" This is certainly not a reference to purgatory. One behaving in this manner falls into the condemnation of the lost. True forgiveness,"from the heart" of a regenerate man is one of the signs of genuine salvation and conversion{Eph 4:32}. Genuine believers are people are both forgiven and forgiving. Unforgiving people prove that they have never been born of God. God Bless! |
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