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Articmonster.

If I misunderstood you, I apologize.  It is good that you atleast comprehend the importance and the salvation that is in and only in Christ through faith.

I actually meant that I fully understand your belief that 'all men' will be eventually 'in Christ'.

I just believe Christ over others (like Paul), when it comes to who will enter the Kingdom of God (eternal Salavation); of which I do not think you do...

Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Again (And Christ spoke truth):

Luke 13:22-24 (King James Version)

And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Let me speak this one out in modern terms:

Jesus is the 'straight gate'.  Many will seek to enter INTO HIM, but will NOT BE ABLE TO.  Those NOT written in the 'Book of Life' (which means to be IN HIM):


Revelation 17:8
The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
Peace in Christ.

Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Nahum the prophet foretold of the day when the 'wicked' or those NOT found in the Book of Life (Not in Christ), will suffer the second death...

Nahum 1
9What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

11There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.

12Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

They will be 'cut down' and this is a metaphor of the 'second death'.

The metaphors are very clear.  The Chaff will be destroyed.  The Wheat saved.  The Darnel gathered and 'burned'.  I guess I'm even shocked that I didn't grasp the simplicity of the metaphors for so long, so why would I be astonished that some of you do not digest it well today???!!!  I am not.