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To: trebb
Who was excluded?

"You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?"
[Matthew 23:33]

"And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell."
[Luke 16:22]

47 posted on 08/14/2017 8:07:06 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: trebb

“Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand. I say to you, it shall be more tolerable at that day for Sodom, than for that city. Woe to thee, Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre and Sidon had been wrought the mighty works that have been wrought in you, they would have done penance long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgement, than for you. And thou, Capharnaum, which art exalted unto heaven, thou shalt be thrust down to hell.”
[Luke 10: 11-15]


49 posted on 08/14/2017 8:22:02 AM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide
Context is everything....in Matthew 23, Jesus was condemning the fake teachers/pharisees and those who were trying to keep their mortal selves important/relevant by sticking to the Law - later down the road they and those who followed their thinking were berated for having fallen from Grace:

Galatians 5:4 - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

In Luke 16, Lazarus was poor and "longing to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. The rich guy showed no charity.

Also, remember that while Jesus was [reaching what would come in the New Covenant that God had promised, He was also living under the Old Covenant and much of what He said was in conformance to the Covenant He lived under - and He also had to be the only Man to walk the Earth without breaking the Old Covenant.

John gave us baptism and he told us: "Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world"..... John 1:29, 36

Was he a loony-toon except for the baptism part?

51 posted on 08/14/2017 10:20:04 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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