[Petronski]

Well then the “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day” plan of salvation can’t be binding on everyone since there are exceptions.

You're being ridiculous. Yes. There are exceptions for anyone Christ says is excepted. I count one man (the thief).

Your game of gotcha is an absurd failure.

[blue-duncan]

“Your game of gotcha is an absurd failure.”

No, the reasonable explanation is the simplest one that has been reiterated throughout the New Testament, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved”, “For by grace are you saved through faith; and not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast”. That is what the thief did and it was accounted unto him for righteousness without the tortuous machinations of “exceptions” that only devalue the justice of God.

[HarleyD]

“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life*, and I will raise him on the last day”

*Exceptions: Theives on crosses who confess me, lepers who have faith, women who pour oil on my feet, and any other people I choose to consider as exceptions. All others must eat my flesh and drink my blood.

People love exceptions.

[Radix]

"You're being ridiculous. Yes. There are exceptions for anyone Christ says is excepted. I count one man (the thief)."

The dispensation of Grace I believe was just a bit after the Crucifixion.

Just thinking out loud here.