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It may seem futile...but I tried. ;)

It's clear that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world...and not just for believers. Jesus never advocates for a salvation by belief system. God is merciful. I believe the bible shows very clearly that the saints will rule over the righteous and they on whom God shows mercy. God can save...

Agreed! Psalm 87 87 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. 4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre...

Do you know what a dogmatic belief entails?

And some will indeed be cast into the lake of fire. But that is not determined by our dogmatic appreciations or judgments. We are not the ideal against which all others are judged.

Denying Christ today is not to deny that Jesus came and died for the sins of all men. The devil doesn't deny Christ in this way. So he lets people believe that...and that this is what justifies them. (If that was so then the devil would also be justified in believing that Jesus died for the sins...

Exactly! Then it all boils down to...entering INTO Him...where He becomes our life and our salvation. We are made perfect IN Him. We walk in His perfected humanity IN Him. IN Him is NO sin. One can try explaining this over and over...but without real faith people will ALWAYS limit God and His...

Eternal life is a kind of life. A walk in the presence of God. None of us has a personal eternal life. That life is found only in Christ. It is as we enter into Christ that we walk in the power of His life. In that life is no sin. No one who sins has eternal life. The bible speaks to us of...

The game begins....as in...my dogmatism is better than your dogmatism. Dogmatic statements don't save you. The devil knows more about who Jesus is than you do. Why don't you try winning a dogma contest with him? For all the good that does,

Episkopos said: ↑ Repentance is never "secured" for all time. I disagree. See John 5:24. IF you abide in Christ...big IF...then you have nothing to repent of because there is no sin IN Christ. But how many people know that level of walk? Mostly people are just trying to be good. And these...

The way in Christ is not an end...but a means. (that's why it is called a way....not a done deal) Can you understand what that is? Do you know what the difference is between a means and an end. I have met very few modern style believers who understand even that.

You will have to investigate your own error. I'm not playing that game. I can do that too... Jesus is the Lamb of God. There. ;)

This whole salvation status thing is of men not God. People are led to believe that they do good because they are saved. But this is only a half-truth and mostly backwards. Most believers do good from their own power...like everyone else. Since there is no imputed salvation status, people...

That is a religious formula you have been taught to believe. God does not demand we believe that Jesus died for them. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. The whole world doesn't need to believe that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world....for Jesus to die for their sins. So you...

There's a lot more to it than that. Repentance is never "secured" for all time. We need to learn humility...a new humility to add to the new growth. This is real life and anything is possible. We are just human after all. How is that not a false assurance? A baby can go a lot of different...

Actually God calls us away from iniquity. You are making it sound like the beginning is the end. But a new birth gives us a new potential for growth into the likeness of Christ. But there is no guarantee of that. We are in a race...not a free coronation. They who claim salvation at the beginning...

We all need to work out...iron out...live out...our own contradictions. Then we can be non-conflicted in our lives and views. Jung said...Paradoxical views that are not made conscious will be played out in the world as fate. I can't respond to more than how much you presented in the OP. But...

Exactly. And the OP mainly makes this point. We can't expect the story to inform everything about us....because the application of that story to our own lives needs to be applied with wisdom...and the Spirit. We are not God...and neither are we Paul...although so many read Paul with such a...

Some people may think that a totalitarian outlook (convert and be like us or die) was inevitable for Christendom...that somehow the narrative of the bible implies this. And a certain argument can indeed be brought forth that at times the scriptures would seem to support such a worldview. But...

I seek balance...because in the end the universe seeks balance. In the days of the development of the A bomb, some weren't sure if the spitting of the atom wouldn't destroy all life on earth. But the power of balance in the world is very strong. We would do well to keep a balanced view or else...