I'm not saying it, the bible is. And before you ask for proof, I already posted the passage.
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no Job you are saying it, and saying that the bible is saying it. all of creation and its creatures know it's creator through His Word there is no other way. that same Word in the beginning is the same as Jesus Christ. Abraham knew Jesus, but he didn't know His name. simple. the faith and the hope is the same. therefore those who didn't receive the revelation, like Abraham like all of Israel at MT Sinai, so on and so forth will not receive the blessing therein. Jesus says plainly:
Joh 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for
if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
hence unacceptable to be in the Presence of God. also whatever Paul says doesn't supersede what the Lord says:
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
also what is of heaven returns or is in heaven, that which is not of heaven does not go to heaven. what is of God returns to God what is of the earth (man dust to dust ashes to ashes) returns to the earth.
Joh 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,
even the Son of man which is in heaven.
and don't forget as Paul says, flesh cannot inherit heaven.
what you seem to be promoting here is the Catholicism feel theology that all men are God's children. that ain't so.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
and nothing in the Bible supersedes that statement, actually its about the fulfillment of that statement. so anything you might be thinking in scripture contrary to that, you are mistaken in its meaning.
Jesus is the contract, according to God, everything else is within the context of that contract.