Truth and Deception

[n david]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

I haven't brought myself or where I am at into this post because it's immaterial to the conversation.

What is relevant was that the original post had, in first person, the Lord Jesus speaking certain things that don't agree with His already stated work in the Scriptures. That is where I draw the line.

Jesus plainly and without hesitation explained exactly what the parable of the wheat and the tares meant. He didn't leave it open for discussion.

Tares are children of the devil, sown into the world by the enemy in order to cause confusion and ruination of the harvest. That is a truth proposition given by the Lord. He didn't say they were anything else. We can wonder and guess at and reinterpret to our hearts desire, but it doesn't change what the Lord said.

And so, when anyone comes and say that the Lord, in first person has suddenly redefined His own parable and the meaning of it into something else, any student of Scripture has an obligation to the Lord they serve to question that. Jesus said His words will never pass away.

We can't just go around re-interpreting His words as we see fit, then claim He was the One doing the re-interpreting. All that does is create doubt and uncertainty that the will and mind of Christ is actually knowable.

We can question our previously held ideas, assumptions, and understandings, and in time, come to different conclusions. This is well and good. But we can't come to new conclusions because we have changed the very meaning and intent of the Scriptures to suit our previously held ideas, assumptions, and understandings. That is dangerous territory. That is adding to or taking away from the Word.

We ought not to go there but at our spiritual peril. Had the original post presented the concepts given as thoughts and questions regarding the parable of the wheat and the tares, then okay, fine.

But that is not how it was presented. It was presented as though the Lord was speaking in first person a new and different interpretation of His own parable, in contrast to how He already defined it in the Word. That is a BIG deal. I hope we can see that.

Because if what was written in the first post is not accurate, then it becomes a false witness against the Lord of lords, because it presumes to tell the world that He said something He didn't actually say.

We must not "go there", as the saying goes.