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Diversity—
“WHOEVER will, may come.”
“God loved the world so much, that He gave His only Son, so that WHOEVER believes in Him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Equity—
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
“Wide the gate—broad the way—to destruction—many go there.”
“Strait the gate (restricted access)—narrow the way—few find it.”
No room for equal outcomes—except those who seek an alternate way than the Bible will all end up equal in hell.
Inclusion—
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.”
“Those who know the judgment of God, and commit such things*, will not inherit the kingdom of heaven—not only do such things, but approve of those who do.”
*”such things” are listed in specific detail in preceding verses:
“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
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