ECT Why do D'ists champion the older brother of the Prodigal Son story?

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iamaberean said:
Where were the lost sheep of the house of Israel when Jesus spoke those words? Jesus and the apostles would have known, right?
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Wow, never saw this until today. Ol'STP can really put out the doozies. So now he doesn't realize that in the parable, the older brother is Pharisee Israel? It goes on and on.
 
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Tambora said:
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that the remnant of Israel can only mean those that are faithful and righteous among the children of Israel.
As we can see in the verse below, GOD is angry with the remnant for their iniquity and transgressions, but will have mercy on them all.
Remnant can also mean any and all of Israel that are left (ie. ALL that remain alive at the time).

Micah 7:18 KJV
(18) Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.​



Even in the NT, the remnant does not always mean the faithful and righteous ones.
Matthew 22:6 KJV​
(6) And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.​
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the Micah 7 does not mean you just need a beating heart to be the remnant. It validates that there needs to be a purifying refusal of sin.

You just entitled anyone of the race even if they are not repentant. Two programs ruins everything and runs deep in you!

Mt 22 is not on the doctrine of the remnant. As other tranlsations say 'the rest' simply at one point in the story. You've got to read wider and have more usage sense than that. The term is 'leimma' as in Rom 11:5, or Acts 15's 'kataloipoi.'
 
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