Quotes about Exclusion

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

Therefore let us avoid these men of blood and not allow them to draw us into Judaism.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.

If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.

The one being cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. Afterward, he may enter the camp, but he must remain outside his tent for seven days.

instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.

Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.