The Light of the World in Everyone
There is an interpretation of scripture I want to address. There is a passage in Matthew 5 that says "you are the light of the world." Many believe, I think reading this incorrectly, that only the church is the light of the world. And many jump to the conclusion that others outside the church are therefore in darkness. The darkness part I think actually comes from taking an incomplete snippet from something Jesus says, "[many will come from far and wide] to recline at the table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven and while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out in the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." See the irony? The sons of the Kingdom who don't follow God's will and take on his ways will be thrown out in the darkness. In Jesus's parable, i t is the insiders, NOT THE OUTSIDERS, who will be thrown out into darkness. The outsiders, the bible says will storm the gates of the Kingdom of Heave