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Re: Gal 3:20 (Please no Godhead Debate)
Appy, no time today for your book. I'll have to go back in time later.
But I will add:
Who is it that shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? The unrighteous, of course. Who are the unrighteous? For example fornicators, idolaters, adulters, theives, the covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners...these and more shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
All these people are unbelieving people as well.
But, like Paul, I do not believe Paul addressed the fornicating Corinthians in such a way as he viewed them as lost. He simply sharpened his rhetoric, admonishing them to "be who you are." In fact his follow-up "such were some of you" is sort of "in faith" because he's obviously writing this letter because of some pretty serious problems with the very things he listed.
Then he says this:
"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be enslaved by anything
And he concludes:
"glorify God in your bodies."
So before you create a Gospel of Moralism, you should understand the unrighteous are not people who sin, they are people who don't believe and continue behaving as unbelievers.
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