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> It is not possible to name the number of the gifts which the church, throughout the whole world (cf. Mk. 16:15), has received from God, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
The mark citation here is eroneously added by the person who wrote this to suggest he was making a direct quote of Mark, which there is no indication that is the verse he was referring to, but you'll miss the more important part. Ireneaus is stating that the church had already extended through the whole world. Martin Luther also made this claim. The whole world to them is not the planet, nor was it the whole world to Jesus.
>20 Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
The world to Jesus was Jerusalem and the surrounding land. It is not for you to imagine what He cared for. The purpose of the witnesses of the bible is that they give you the answers. There is zero indication in any biblical text that the scope of anything one might call "the world" meant the entire planet. There is even less indication that what 1st centuries Aryans called a "man" included Incans, Mayans, Chinese, Aboriginals, black Africans, etc. Your universalist view is corrupted by your pozzed modernist view of humanity. I'm sure because you aren't actually White and you're malding about it, but that isn't my problem. The fact is, nobody considered brown people to be "humans." They were considered to be savage animals. Even Jesus called a Canaanite woman a dog, and Canaanites are decided Aryan/Adamic.
Cope and Seethe, NEET.