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Dr. David Bentley Hart on That All Shall Be Saved - Session 2: Meditation 2

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The Importance of the Word a in the Bible

If the New Testament writers were trying to say that this punishment is eternal, would they not have used the word like a D. Or a aivious? I mean again we're just talking about exactly one verse in Matthew 25 and a on is there probably has the forensic meaning to of final,. You know, in the sense of the final verdict in the court. What it just means is you know the final the final verdict one one is sent off into the line but however you translate that verse the sentence the notion that those who actually committed it to the page had some firm sense that they were talking about the Christ when he spoke of God isn't true.

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