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Re: Matthew 7:21-23
Never does mean never in the Greek.
Is it meant literally? That is the question.
Things do seem pretty black and white with the Lord. If one has separated him or herself from God, backslid, become reprobate, has been given over to uncleanness and crucified the Son of God afresh, counted the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, and etc. and then died lost and stands before Christ at Judgment then the person that he or she became, in that moment of Judgment, is never known to the Lord, since upon the apostasy, Christ separated Himself, too, and neither had nor sought out any intimate knowledge of the "dog returned to his [or her] vomit".
Christ only knew him or her as redeemed, when they were walking in and reaping to the Spirit. Once corruption from the flesh was achieved, it's adios muchacho/a, or as the Lord said, "I never knew you".
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