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The Most Terrifying Verse in the Bible
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Stephen
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March 5, 2025 - 4:38 pm

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Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Ok, I’m a non-believer so my goose is cooked anyway. But I’m also a skeptic so I have concede the possibility that I don’t have all the facts. I could be wrong. So I might one day stand underneath the Flaming Skies before the Judge Who Admits of No Dispute only to be cast into Outer Darkness. But what no one realizes is that there are joys in Hell. Paramount will be the realization that the Heathen will share it with any number of Popes and Bishops and televangelists and most of all, generations of “pious” laity.

I have it on good authority that what the Good Lord hates most of all is not honest unbelief but hypocrisy. And more than a hint exists that what makes the difference in our Ultimate Fate is not assent to a Theological Proposition but how we treat our fellows.

Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You who are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

Now I don’t like to judge but most of those folks who claim to be Christians and so feel free to inform the rest of us how we should live our lives are simply fooling themselves.

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Colin Milton

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March 5, 2025 - 6:43 pm

1) they forgot to include the genitive case first person pronoun εμου to the κυριε the vocative case of κυριος nominative case masculine second declension noun

κυριε μου κυριε μου

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2) That the will of the father be done is the best summary of the Lord’s Prayer and all prayer when needed. Matthew 6:5-15

3) Everyone will be salted with fire. Mark 9:49

4) Matthew 6:14-15 🤠

5) don’t forget κυριε μου κυριε μου for proper grammatical etiquette.

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March 6, 2025 - 10:18 am

I have interpreted by Rule of Faith from Luke and John what is a probably non-orthodox interpretations of Crucifixion theology. My understanding is that all the sins of the world were forgiven during and after the crucifixion. Luke 23:34. That whole big idea after the Resurrection is The New Covenant:Paul’s Law, that replaced The Old Covenant:Torah Law, Moses’s Law, Talmud Law, anything and everything traditionally Jewish forever. That verse Matthew 7:21 only applied to those living before the Crucifixion.

Matthew is an introduction into Jewish:Torah learning. Matthew 7:12. Luke is not that same teaching. Comparing those passages between Matthew and Luke will reveal that.
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That idea of forgiveness doesn’t work however with Matthew and Mark. In those, “my god my god why havefth thou forfthfaken me” the plea to the father-like God to forgive the sins of the world has been denied 🙅‍♂️. Science is already itself loaded with paradoxes, I’m not surprised to find a paradox itself in the Bible.

I think the Lord’s Prayer pretty much sums up the entire book, and people should not obsessed and freaking out over understanding the Afterlife unless employed in the Arts of Theatre 🎭.

I know where I have come from. That is, from roaming the earth and wandering to and fro upon it.

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