Recently I was asked if this parable teaches that a Christian can fall from grace and be lost.

What would the simplest way be to explain this parable when asked such questions?

Thanks.

j

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Conscience may lash us, but it cannot replenish a languishing life. Conscience may be God's word and minister to you, telling you of your faults and your follies and your destitution. It may point out, but it will never supply you. Christ must give you new life. Hart has well expressed it: "He to the feeble and the faint, His mighty aid makes known; and when their languid life is spent, supplies it with His own." - J. K. Popham

No, since he was later found. Can a Christian fall away for a season? yes- but the Lord will never let one of His fall through His fingers, just like he didn't in the parable. Instead, he brought the young man to repentance.

Theognome

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Bill Cunningham
Covenant Reformed Church, URC
Kansas City
There are three kinds of people- those who can count, and those who can't.

There's a young man in the parable of the sower?

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Ruben
Moderator
F.P.C.I.
Indiana

Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
John Donne

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Calvinistas Conversando
Teología en Mexico
The Howling Wilderness

Bill, you missed on that one... you're talking about the parable of the Prodigal Son.

Where's that artillery when ya need it?

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Brad
Member- Eagle Heights PCA
Winchester, VA

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Yup, I goofed. You can insert a face slap here, if you wish.

Theogome

A true child of God will never be eternally lost (John 10:27-29). However, there are definitely those "who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come" (Heb 6:4-5), who have fallen away of their own disobedience--shunning the covenant blessings of God for the hardness of their own hearts.

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Michael Turner
Christ Reformed Church | Independent [WCF]
Georgia

Do you mean the sower and the different types of ground?

I would point out that the only plant that actually bore fruit, rather than simply appearing to be a productive plant, was the one on good ground. The rest never bore fruit. Despite external appearances to the contrary, the stony/weedy soil were never really saved.

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Jonathan
Audio Engineer
Reformed Anabaptist
Ohio

Moroni's magical glasses of proper interpretation:

That's about it. Short and simple.

Thanks.

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Rich Koster
1689'er
Browns Mills NJ USA
Often Goofy Reformed Eccentric
Romans 7:14-25