When Paul says 'you all,' does he include lost people or only believers?
When Paul writes "you all," he includes only believers, not lost people. Paul never writes to anyone but the believer, so the phrase reaches every believer and goes no further. The context is the Holy Spirit baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, not a local church or denomination.
Les explains that a lady once asked whether "all" meant everybody would be saved, but she had not been taught that Paul never writes to anyone but the believer. So when Paul says "you all," he is not including lost people; he is including every believer, and that is as far as it can go. This baptism is by one Spirit into the body of Christ, not a local church or denomination. It is an act of God, invisible, something we cannot put our hands on or feel. Like the other things God did the moment we believed, we know it happened by faith because the book says so. At the moment every child of God believed, the Holy Spirit baptized them into the body of Christ.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
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When Paul says 'you all,' does he mean all people, including non-Christians?
When Paul says 'you all' in his letters, he is addressing every believer and not including lost people because Paul never writes to anyone but the believer.