Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Predestination, Bible Answers to Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 89 07:42:48 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of No Money, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article bralick@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Will Bralick) writes: >But this leaves open the possibility that there are those who were >a) not originally invited, and b) not found and subsequently invited. >Clearly, if the original invitees and the "anyone you can find" >formed a partition of the race, then _all_ would have been invited. (Re the parable of the banquet) The interpretation of this parable that makes the most sense to me is that the original invited guests were Israel, and that the the "slime" invited later are the Gentiles. -mib -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 292 0001 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!