Depart from Me, Workers of Lawlessness: The Sermon on the Mount Already Refuted Pauline Salvation
Part 10 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Passage That Should Have Ended the Argument There is a passage at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that, if read plainly, ought to have ended every Pauline-versus-Synoptic argument about how a person is saved before it began. The passage is Matthew 7:21–23. It is spoken by Jesus, in his physical presence, to a crowd of disciples and followers, in the body of his single most extended ethical-theological teaching.
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Part 10 of THE OTHER GOSPEL Series — by eFireTemple The Passage That Should Have Ended the Argument There is a passage at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that, if read plainly, ought to have ended every Pauline-versus-Synoptic argument about how a person is saved before it began. The passage is Matthew 7:21–23. It is spoken by Jesus, in his physical presence, to a crowd of disciples and followers, in the body of his single most extended ethical-theological teaching. It is printed in red ink in every red-letter Bible ever published. It runs to seventy-five words in the standard English translation. Here is what Jesus says: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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