Reply #17: One quote from each parable: [View All]

1) "Truly I tell you, I don’t know you."
2) "And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
3) "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Each of these quotes is incompatible with your preferred interpretation, that by taking one word and coming up with an alternative definition, you are somehow transforming eternal punishment to a place that is set up to "correct" people but that isn't eternal for the person involved. (BTW, the "correction" in your preferred definition of kolasis implies a correction as part of a punishment - still not a nice thing. Why would your god need to punish at all?)

Why would Jesus not know someone who merely needs some "correction?" Why would there be "darkness" and "weeping and gnashing of teeth" where someone is simply learning correct behavior? Why would Jesus make such a stark distinction between those who need "correction" and those who are "righteous" and have earned eternal life? Do the people who get "corrected" not inherit eternal life then?

One last question: you and I both know that no human is perfect. So what is the cutoff for "righteous?" With Jesus, this is a binary thing. If you are bad, you get eternal punishment ("correction"). If you're righteous, eternal life.