Does the term 'lost' define a group eternally damned?
Upvote:4
Short answer
No. "lost" defines a group abandoned by the bad shepherds, the group that Jesus (who is the Good shepherd) came to find.
Longer answer
In the Bible, the term "lost" is usually used to refer to those that are temporarily lost due to bad shepherds (Ez 34:1-10). Thus Jesus came to be a Good Shepherd who looks for those scattered sheep and gathers them to His Kingdom to fulfill the prophecy in Ez 34:11-24, as described in @curiousdannii's answer to your other question.
These are some other OT references to "lost sheep", which also means the "temporarily lost", which Jesus will seek and save:
- Ps 119:176:
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.
- Jer 50:6:
“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.
But the group that is eternally lost (separated from the good sheep on the Day of Judgment) is usually called by a different term:
- The wicked or the sinners (Ps 1:5):
"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;"
- The evil as in the Parable of the Net (Matt 13:47-50):
49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous.
- The weeds as in the Parable of the Weeds (Matt 13:36-43):
40 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.
- The goats as in the Final Judgment passage in Matt 25:31-46:
32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. ... 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
More post
- 📝 What Popes have resigned in the past?
- 📝 What is the difference between an apostle and a missionary according to Pentecostal & Charismatic Christianity?
- 📝 How are the Catholic church's teaching on plastic surgery and GRS self-consistent?
- 📝 How were people saved prior to 33 AD?
- 📝 Are monks allowed by Church law to set up a religious order for clergymen with a particular profession (ex. developers)?
- 📝 When the early church was formalising the canon, what did they understand by the word 'Inspired'?
- 📝 At what point is a new soul created according to the Catholic Church?
- 📝 Is it valid to use grape juice at Communion?
- 📝 Were the Dictatus Papae considered to be spoken "ex cathedra"?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church perform non-civil marriages in the Dominican Republic?
- 📝 Who if any Evangelicals still believe that Adam was created with "a perfect knowledge of God" and everything else?
- 📝 Did Pope Francis declare that according to the teaching of the Catholic Church capital punishment is intrinsically evil?
- 📝 Catholicism: How to treat beggars?
- 📝 Who is the young man mentioned in Mark 14:51?
- 📝 How do nontrinitarians view Jesus? (overview)
- 📝 Why do Jehovah's Witnesses not pray with people of other faith?
- 📝 Under what conditions can a "good" or "charitable" act actually be sin?
- 📝 How can trinitarians profess co-equality when Jesus said the Father was greater?
- 📝 Did any of the early church fathers believe they had to follow dietary laws?
- 📝 Do proponents of Federal Vision believe that there is no hope of salvation without baptism?
- 📝 How can you have a morning and evening without a sun?
- 📝 Are Catholic schools run by seculars a post-Vatican II novelty?
- 📝 Is Melchizedek an immortal human?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for restricting administration of the sacraments to ordained church leaders?
- 📝 Why don't Mormons sing the second verse of, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"?
- 📝 Why do some traditional Catholics choose Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form over going with their parish Confirmation?
- 📝 Was regular weekly fasting a widespread, formal tradition in the early Church?
- 📝 Vatican approved miracles?
- 📝 Why did God want a Tabernacle built by Moses?
- 📝 In the NPP, if Paul's "works of the law" are only circumcision and diet, how is Galatians 3:10 interpreted?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Does the term 'lost' define a group eternally damned?
- 📝 From a Trinitarian perspective, does the term 'only begotten Son' make sense outside of the concept of the incarnation?
- 📝 How do various traditions define the term "sufficient grace"?
- 📝 How does the New Testament define a Christian and a non-Christian, a brother in Christ and not a brother in Christ?
- 📝 How does C. S. Lewis define the "natural" and "supernatural" in his book Miracles?
- 📝 How does John Polkinghorne define the soul?
- 📝 Does Daniel 12:1–2 indicate the damned will have physical bodies like the Saints?
- 📝 How does the Church define reason?
- 📝 Did the early church believe that the damned would be eternally punished in a literal hell of fire?
- 📝 "Truth Matters 2013: Strange fire" conference" - What does the biblical term "strange fire" signify about the Charismatic movement?
- 📝 Does anyone know hòw many Christian groups believe the term 'angel of the Lord' means 'The Lord'?
- 📝 How does the Catholic Church explain the term “the Son”: in the Sign of the Cross as well as in Matthew 28:19?
- 📝 When the Bible talks about wine does it mean alcoholic wine?
- 📝 Does Jesus ever claim to be God, or the son of God?
- 📝 Where does the concept of a "God-shaped hole" originate?
- 📝 To what extent does the Law of Moses still apply?
- 📝 When does the Pope speak ex cathedra?
- 📝 From a Fundamentalist standpoint, what does the phrase "Inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God" mean?
- 📝 What does the bible say about h*m*sexuality?
- 📝 Does the pope get paid for being the pope?
- 📝 Does the Trinity share one mind or are there three separate minds?
- 📝 What does the bible say about interracial marriages?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about Capital Punishment?
- 📝 Why does Jesus refer to himself as the "Son of Man"?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about tithing?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus fulfilled the law but did not abolish it?
- 📝 Does the Bible give any rules for music?
- 📝 How does Matthew 25:31-46 ("The Sheep and the Goats") reconcile with salvation by faith?
- 📝 Does the Bible make any allusions to life on other planets?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church officially recognize Protestants as Christians?