Further emphasis provided by me (like it's really needed...):
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:1-5
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
After my posting of this I imagine the dispensationalists responding as such:
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord. And cast him out of the city, and stoned him...Acts 7:57-58
Paul clearly taught that both Gentile and Jew needed to repent. This was a command straight from God.
There are no dispensational lines here, this was intended for everyone.
Emphasis on verse 30... but now commandeth all men every where to repent...Paul’s audience for this was specifically Gentile but the context is for “all men everywhere to repent...”!!!
Read further for the exact context:
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts 17:22-31
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