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I've been trying to get up the courage to change this overhead bathroom exhaust fan (lots of dust and dirt involved, and I'm somewhat of a germophobe), but lots of stuff has been coming up, getting in the way, and I have to go to dialysis tomorrow, and I am terrified of the shame I will feel...

It really depends on your definition of "salvation". Paul says our "salvation" was foreshadowed, defined, by the Jews' "salvation" from slavery in Egypt (and Jesus says sin is like slavery in John 8), but, as we see, their behavior, after their salvation, was a greater consideration in God's...

It's insulting--insulting that it seems like I am being told to believe something that is inconceivable. "You had better obey Me, or I'll send you to hell, but you're not allowed to fear going to hell while you're obeying, you can only love. Don't acknowledge that I said I'd send you to hell...

Am I correct that this is from ChatGPT ?

If you are a person who believes salvation cannot be lost, you cannot help me, because you don't deal with the same problems as I do, because you read the Scriptures differently than I do. Do you believe in OSAS?

Yeah, I think Paul is getting after them for not walking in grace and faith--but there are variations of not walking in grace and faith. One variation would be Romans 14:23, where the guy has faith, but goes against it, but another variation is the Galatians, who were doing "good deeds" but it...

Yeah, people quote "perfect love casts out fear", but "the one who keeps His commands is perfect in love", so, yeah, I guess if you're perfectly keeping His commands you won't fear. LOL

Even though I affirm this "on paper", this stands in contrast to my mentality, which is imperfect, which is "I had better do good, or else--if I don't do good, I will get in trouble"--Paul seems to speak about the mere prospect of doing good as a source of joy and hope, not dread, like me...

In my experience, God being one's righteousness is one's knowing God for oneself, and one's revealing of that God he knows, saving the lost and edifying the saved, through one's words and deeds--"this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of God's glory [through our righteous works...

I figure the guy does love God, based on what he says, but I don't really entangle myself, because, in my experience, there's no possibility of a fruitful exchange in terms of specific ideas or words, though I think he does have the spirit of it right (he does say both faith and works are...

I guess what sticks in my craw is being told "salvation is a gift", but also being told that I will go to hell if I don't obey, but, then, also, not allowing me to fear. I'm being threatened, but I'm not allowed to acknowledge I am being threatened! It doesn't make sense. Then, I try to obey to...

I always, always, always, hear a voice "Peace", "rest", "sabbath", "son", etc. Yes, this verse confuses me--and I view it is a "clue" to a better understanding than the one I have. Yeah, that's nice, but interpreting 1 John by 1 John, we also see "love in deed not merely words", and "the one...

We are saved, just as the Jews were saved, but, as with the Jews after they were saved, our behavior determines our outcome (1 Corinthians 10).

I named myself GracePeace because it is a wish that I have for my life. I've heard of scrupulosity before--I was infant baptized Catholic, and my grandmother grew up in a convent in Ecuador, so I have some acquaintance with Catholicism--but I just wish that if I really were wrong in my...

It doesn't matter if you want to, all that matters is that you DO it after wanting it, bc, by my view, that's salvation

My service was excepted to on the basis it was partially out of fear, but it is the most insulting thing to my intelligence to say serve only out of love as if I'm not being threatened bc if I'm not being threatened that would make it as though there were no penalty for not obeying but that is...

You love God by obeying God at the cost of your life.

I either experience God's love or I don't--I don't get nourished by a word but by a substance. Words are just words.

Yeah, we love because He loved us first, but the love is to be in deed not in word, 1 John says, so there is a fear that I may not do the thing that is loving and therefore lose eligibility for the love. Jesus says He lays His life down for His friends, and you are His friend IF YOU DO WHAT HE...

No, I mean I think about going to hell and being tormented if I don't do what I'm supposed to do, and, somehow, that is wrong.