How does one reconcile Sola Fide with the parable of the talents?
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Sola Fide answers "how do you get saved."
The parable of the talents addresses, what is my reward, once I am saved.
Even the most Calvinistic sole ride adherent still believes that you should work for the kingdom. Whether or not you get to heaven may not be in your control, but how well you have pleased the Master once you are there most certainly is.
The beauty of the parable of the talents is not that we can earn anything- indeed, it would be assumed that the Master could handle his own assets best of all. Rather, that we as servants of the most high have the privilege of participating in the work of Christ is pretty cool. True gratitude for the ability to do anything is evidenced by labor for the Kingdom. And again, that God would allow us to join Him in what we do is supposed to "spur us on to good works."
Does God need us? No more than a dad needs a toddler. Does anything we do make him love us more or less? NOt at all.
But God likes us and let's us try. How cool is that?
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