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The Problem With Particularism

If the Unjust are not redeemed, then what happens to them in the final Judgment?  1 Corinthians 15:42–49 (ESV): So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.  Ephemeral bodies are dishonorable, corr...
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The United States At 250 - Day 5

Restore Us to Yourself, O  Lord 5  Remember, O  Lord , what has befallen us;      look, and see our disgrace! 2  Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,      our homes to foreigners. 3  We have become orphans, fatherless;      our mothers are like widows. 4  We must pay for the water we drink;      the wood we get must be bought. 5  Our pursuers are at our necks;      we are weary; we are given no rest. 6  We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria,      to get bread enough. 7  Our fathers sinned, and are no more;      and we bear their iniquities. 8  Slaves rule over us;      there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9  We get our bread at the peril of our lives,      because of the sword in the wilderness. 10  Our s...
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The United States At 250 - Day 4

The Holy Stones Lie Scattered 4  How the gold has grown dim,      how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered      at the head of every street. 2  The precious sons of Zion,      worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots,      the work of a potter's hands! 3  Even jackals offer the breast;      they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel,      like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4  The tongue of the nursing infant sticks      to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food,      but no one gives to them. 5  Those who once feasted on delicacies      perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple      embrace ash heaps. 6  For the chastisement [ a ]...
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Why People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

From Religion News Service  WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia walked into Speaker Mike Johnson’s office last month, the two men already held starkly different political views. By the time the meeting ended 30 minutes later, it was clear they also sit on different ends of the Christian spectrum. Warnock, a Democrat and pastor of a prominent Black church, had raised questions in an  interview with The New York Times  a few days prior about whether the speaker’s Republican politics reflected his professed faith. The senator described himself as a “Matthew 25 Christian,” referring to a biblical passage that features Jesus telling his followers a parable in which “all the nations” are judged by how they care for the “least of these” — described as the hungry, the stranger and the imprisoned, among others. How, Warnock had told the Times, do you “say a long prayer, hold hands with your fellow legislators and then cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid?” In...
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