Sunday, July 2, 2017

The New Covenant through Christ Jesus is not unconditional

Update: It would be better to list the conditions named by the Lord Jesus and then in a separate list the conditions named by Paul and others in the Bible, due to the potential differences (on which, see my Translator's Preface to The Christ Family Bible.)
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[1] Jesus Christ's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount

"Not everyone who is saying to me 'Lord! Lord!' will enter into

the kingdom of the heavens, but the one who is doing the will

of the father of mine who is in the heavens." (Matt. 7:14, CFB)


[2] The apostle St. Paul's warning in 1 Corinthians
"Or do you not know that unrighteous people will not inherit God's kingdom?

Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, 

nor adulterers, nor malakoì,* nor arsenokoîtai,*

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, 

nor the rapacious will inherit God's kingdom." (1 Cor. 6:9-10, CFB)



[3] The apostle St. Paul's warning in Galatians
"Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are 

fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, pharmakeia,*

enmity, strife, rivalry, rages, factiousness, divisions, heresies,

envy, bouts of drunkenness, revelries, and the things like these,

of which I say beforehand to you, just as I said before, that 

they practicing the things like these will not inherit God's kingdom." (Gal. 5:19-21, CFB *This term had multiple senses. Possibly meant here is use of poisons and use of sorcery.)


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Notes

1 Cor 6:9-10  The Greek term malakós (plural: malakoí) has a large number of senses (refer please to Liddell Scott Jones for a description of these). It is not clear what sense, or senses, that St. Paul means here in 1 Corinthians 6:9. The immediate context and the New Testament give the best support for the sense of "cowardly". 
The term arsenokoîtai is a compound of the terms for "male" (ársen) and "sexual intercourse" (koíte), and the leading hypothesis among dictionaries (e.g. Thayer's, LSJ, DGE) is that it refers to men having sex with each other.


CFB: Scripture quoted from the Christ Family Bible. Copyright © 2017 by J.J. Thomas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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