Saturday, December 15, 2018

Jesus rules and judges all people

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke,† though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts‡; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34, NKJV)

"All authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Me. Going, therefore, disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I have commanded you...." (Matthew 28:18-20, CFB)

"For the Father judges no one. Instead, He gave all the judgement to the Son, so that all should honour the Son just as they should honour the Father. He not honouring the Son does not honour the Father who sent Him. Amen amen I say to you that him listening to the Word of Mine and trusting Him who sent Me has eternal life and does not come into judgement but has passed over from the death into the life." (John 5:22-24, CFB)


"And it is yet far more evident if, in the likeness of Melchizedek, there arises another priest who has come, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life. For He testifies*:
'You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.'
For on the one hand there is an annulling of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness, for the law made nothing perfect;** on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God." (Hebrews 7:15-19, NKJV)

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† So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. and I turned away from them
‡ Literally, "inward parts".
* Nestle-Aland / United Bible Societies prefer the manuscripts that read "it is testified"
** That is to say, "complete".

CFB: Scripture quoted from the Christ Family Bible. Copyright © 2018 by J.J. Thomas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

NKJV: Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Sins that stop a human from entering God's Kingdom

Update: I wish to clarify that I believe it is necessary to distinguish between the authority of Christ's words and for example Paul's words. Also, on the matter of what is pharmakeia and pharmakoi, I wish to update that there is good evidence that Christ and Paul can have meant, alongside sorcery, also physical poisoning. Please see for example my article "Catastrophic Subtle Sabotage: The Case of Mistranslating Jesus's Words".
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"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 cowardly,* nor homosexuals,** nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive, nor rapacious will inherit God's kingdom."1 Corinthians 6:9-10


"Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery,*** enmity, strife, rivalry, rages, selfish schemes, divisions, heresies, envy, 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."Galatians 5:19-21

"...anyone a fornicator or unclean or covetous (that is an idolater) has not inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God."Ephesians 5:5

"But to the cowardly and unfaithful and them being loathsome and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers*** and idolaters and all the deceitful is the part of theirs in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the death—the second one."Revelation 21:8

"Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers*** and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone loving and practicing falsehood."Revelation 22:15

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* Possibly "effeminate [males]"
** Possibly "men having sex with men"
*** Possibly φάρμακεία (phármakeia) and φάρμακοι (phármakoi) also refer to using spiritually destructive substances

Scripture quoted from The Christ Family Bible. Copyright © 2018 by J.J. Thomas. Used by permission. All rights reserved.