“There is a necessary separation of good from evil, of true from false, of the right from wrong that constitutes the criterion of moral judgment of human behavior. “Inclusivity” opposes this distinction, allowing oneself to be deliberately contaminated by evil to adulterate the good, equating the true and the false in order to corrupt the former and give legitimacy to the latter.” Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
The Gospel includes us all. It is the singular "inclusivity". For all of us have sinned and fallen short of the Glory God intended for us to know as full human beings. We lost that glory of being fully alive. As it is written, all we like sheep have gone astray; we have, every one of us turned from God to devise what we think would be a life better than He defined. And it has ruined us all. Human history teaches clearly that humanity will never be its own salvation. Sin will never save humanity. Going "our own way" in rebellious opposition to what God says makes for life will continue to rot humanity from the inside out.
On the cross, Jesus Christ included every human that had ever or would ever draw breath on the planet. The Creator is worth and infinite number of His creations. When the Creator became a creature, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, He was THE man who could bear the sin of every person who would ever be. He bore in His own human body, experienced in His own human emotions the full-bore wretchedness, the evil, the indifference, the violence, the sickness and disease, the hatred that anyone would ever bear toward another person made in God's image, even the very power of death itself was willfully and fully absorbed by Jesus. In His death, the death of deaths, He broke the power of sin to enslave humanity. He has done everything needed to restore us to the Love of God. He has done everything necessary for us to be fully human again. He has done everything necessary for us to have a new heart, a new spirit, a new spiritual DNA.
This is true inclusivity. This is God gift of unending life for all people. Being a gift, it must be received. Receiving it will mean that you turn from self-destructive delusion and surrender you whole life to Life Himself. He will keep His promises to transform you from the inside out; to make you whole...ALL OF YOU!
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