[TheRealThing]

As Aerosmith once retorted, “Dream On.” My invitation stands.

For those of us who actually do understand accurately, correct doctrine and interpretation of God's word, it takes more than your dropping the term 'Pauline' to impress. You cannot by any means whatever, validate the claim you made in which you said that Christ refers to all of mankind as His brethren. Paul never indicated any such thing, not ever. But he would have deferred to The Lord I'm certain. And what follows is what He said.

Revelation 22:14-15 (KJV)
14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.


The short of it is this; God willingly subjected Himself to the cross to pay man's sin debt. You can say what you will because you never back it up, but for God to die for us is no small thing. ONLY those who bow before Him, accepting the fact that they are hopelessly lost, yet trusting and believing that Jesus is the Son of God; And in repentance freely confessing their sins, and in so doing realizing there is but one way to hide those sins. That being the shed blood of Christ, only then can they then be saved and only then is any man a brother to Christ. So, Christians rightly call each other brother, but theirs is an exclusive brotherhood of believers only. The price paid was just too dear for equivocations and compromise, and believe me when I tell you He will never compromise. Think of it as absolute truth. Spreading a heresy in which you say all men are His brethren evidently means nothing to you. You're trying to win a debate point, right? But tell you what, why don't you explain to us how you know The Lord refers to the lost as brethren? And just for the sake of variety, why not back up your contention with actual Scripture for a change?

Or, you could always admit the truth.