To quote one of the posters in another forum, "I cannot force you to be right", RD. I understand resiliency to change especially if one had for long believed in what he knew was truth.
Your 1% comparing the lost to 99.9% of Israel as being lost, is inaccurate. The coin was 10% of the total. The lost son was 50% of the total. These tell us the emphasis is not in the figures but in the situation of the subjects in the parables. They started out NOT lost.
You are just too thick Samie.
You completely trash the actual meaning of the stories with your forced theory.
You are right that the Lord's parables of the lost are accurate in depicting God's love for man. But instead of "found", people start out in life NOT lost. "Found" comes after one is lost.
God made man upright, as Solomon correctly quipped. God's saving Adam that day he fell into sin, saved Adam in Christ (Acts 4:12). With Adam in Christ, all his descendants are born in Christ. And to be born in Christ is to be born NOT lost.
It's interesting that
everyone "starts out found", but 100% of humanity in all of human history (apart from ONE man)
got lost and have to be saved. That doesn't exact match your version of the parables.
Rom 3:9-12 (AKJV/PCE)
(3:9) What then? are we better [than they]? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; (3:10) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (3:11) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. (3:12) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
