Re: [TruthTalk] Hyperbole

[Terry Clifton]

Wm. Taylor wrote: jt: Slade, I say that it is a strait gate and a narrow way and that only a few (Jews, and Gentiles, as well as the Church of God) are going to find it.   Actually, Judy, if you were aware of the literary conventions of the day, you would realize that there is only One who found it. The "few" and the "many" is an appeal to the Hebrew concept of the one and the many. Jesus is the only one who made it through the strait gate and narrow way. Yet when he did, he brought with him the many, i.e, all of humanity, reconciled and restored.   Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill: You are not making sense.  All humanity is not a few.  A few is not one.  Most of humanity is on the broad road, not the narrow path.  Whoever is teachimg you should be stoned. Terry