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To: dila813

Go read them again, he was talking about the behavior, he didn’t point at someone and say you are in violation and therefore going to hell.
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Oh dear

“YOU VIPERS !!!”

“YOU HYPOCRITES !!!”

“YOU WHITED SEPULCHRES !!!”

ah, was kinda personal just to the Pharisees and others and didnt include all the rest of the crowd...

Lets see just what the LORD Jesus Christ said...

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to Hell? Matthew 23:23-33


215 posted on 09/06/2011 1:15:35 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

Read the entire thing Mathew 23, he clearly identifies these people by their behavior and calls them out by that behavior. He was focused on sinners that belonged to a particular group.

Do you think he condemned all the members of that group, really? Based on their associations?

He is talking to a group, which in of itself not personal.

When I say he personally condemns, it is to say “Hey Mike, You are going to Hell because you are a Mormon ....” (BAD EXAMPLE) Similar to stoning the Prostitute but only worse

Vs.

All Mormon’s will go to hell unless they accept the teachings of Jesus Christ as there Lord and Savior and reject John Smith as a false Prophet. (GOOD EXAMPLE)


246 posted on 09/06/2011 2:10:08 PM PDT by dila813
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