text: Hi Lumen, I just mean that there are different theologies in different scriptures in the NT: Matthew and his Jewish Jesus, John and his mystic Christ, Colossians and Ephesians and their adoption of Greek cosmology. Sometimes knowing the theology at work enables us to understand the text better, as two or three weeks ago with that man without a wedding garment being cast into outer darkness. It helps to know that Matthew sees the church as a mixture of good and bad, but always needs to have a final reckoning to separate sheep from goats -- however inelegant and confusingly he does that.