The tax collector was:
"13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God." (Luke 18:13-14 NASB)
How does this fit into your doctrine?
Yes, THE KING FORGAVE THE DEBT.
But the church likes to take plain words of scripture and say they don't really mean what they so plainly say, but really mean the opposite. I've been called on the carpet about this by unbelievers and have repented of doing that evil thing.
Unless what is spoken about is obviously a metaphor or an analogy (i.e., gouging out one's eye) I do not tell people plain words somehow mean the opposite of what is being said. I now strive to formulate my own beliefs on what the scriptures actually teach, not formulate them on centuries of the 'itching ears' doctrines Paul said would come:
"3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4 NASB)
That time has come...and it's been here for quite some time. Teachers who make words mean the opposite of what they plainly say in the interest of tickling people's ears according to their personal desires, replacing the truth with myths.
To embrace OSAS you have to learn that 'believing', for example, really does not mean true believing. And as we see here, 'being forgiven' is not really being forgiven. Edit
Certainly true when that's the case. But Jesus said the servant really was forgiven. But we are told by the church he really wasn't.
Take comfort in that, unbeliever, when you do beg the King for forgiveness and then wonder if he really did forgive you or not. And OSAS is supposed to be the doctrine of eternal security?
"13 ...for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”" (Romans 10:13 NASB)
Maybe....