The Ten virgins

[VictoryinJesus]

“shutting others from the kingdom” has at least two interps, imo…and im not really sure how to bring out the one that does not involve the hope of literal immortality after death, or iow the one that matters lol

by shutting others out of the kingdom of heaven …I was thinking more along the lines of: the heart.

 

[lightlysalted]

by shutting others out of the kingdom of heaven …I was thinking more along the lines of: the heart.

Mat 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Mat 23:24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

So these teachers of the law, they had no problem teaching that tithes were important.
But when it came to how judge righteously, how to apply mercy, and to have faith, they left these out of their teachings.

How can criminals teach justice without condemning themselves in the teaching?
So they just ignored the matters of the heart.

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[VictoryinJesus]

Was it hymenaeus and Alexander? Their trust became shipwrecked and they taught harmful things.

Thank you. I’ve tried to find it, but still can’t.

 

[lightlysalted]

Thank you. I’ve tried to find it, but still can’t.

Maybe here:
2Ti 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

 

[VictoryinJesus]

Maybe here:
2Ti 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

I was wrong… it wasn’t two. The one I was trying to remember in regards to ‘But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.’ Matthew 23:13

…two days later…
3 John 1:9-10 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not. [10] Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Point was…why I kept thinking about that verse is (Imo) neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids (prevents, hinders?)them that would,
Sounds similar to: for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in. …which I take as “to prevent, hinder” those from entering in.

 

[lightlysalted]

I was wrong… it wasn’t two. The one I was trying to remember in regards to ‘But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in.’ Matthew 23:13

…two days later…
3 John 1:9-10 I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not. [10] Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he does, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Point was…why I kept thinking about that verse is (Imo) neither does he himself receive the brethren, and forbids (prevents, hinders?)them that would,
Sounds similar to: for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are entering to go in. …which I take as “to prevent, hinder” those from entering in.

I thought this was interesting regarding Diotrephes:

Diotrephes - Wikipedia

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