Quotes about Exclusion

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.

So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

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.

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

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

Waste persons are those no longer useful as resources to a society for whatever reason, and have become apatrides, or noncitizens. Waste persons must be placed out of view-in ghettos, slums, reservations, camps, retirement villages, mass graves, remote territories, strategic hamlets-all places of desolation, and uninhabitable. We live in a century whose Master Players have created many millions of such "superfluous persons" (Rubenstein).

“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

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.