You've got a plethora of ideas about who gets saved and who doesn't: from 144,000 exactly to, in some traditions, the other extreme when even Satan is forgiven at the End. If anyone ehre can prove it one way or another, I know about 15,000 Christian denominations that would love to know.
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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must---" designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
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