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If you go to a crowd....without being led by the Spirit in power...and tell them they're all going to hell because they are sinners....you will normally do more harm than good. The key is to be led by the Spirit...and speak the truth IN LOVE.

Our ministry is one of reconciliation to God. The fact that a relationship with God is without sin...could be seen as a by-product of that relationship. So our focus should be on that reconciliation. Too much emphasis on the by-product of a life without God...sin...can easily get in the way of...

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Having said what was previously stated...the world hates truth. The world hates holiness and submission to God. Could we say that all the angels would obey God if they knew Him? Well, 1/3 of they that knew Him still rebelled. And some people will never want to be reconciled to God....they want...

Agreed! :)

Death is separation. Adam lost his spiritual connectivity to God...his spiritual life. In Hebrew the word for human life is plural...CHAYYIM. So we were created to have a vertical life with God as well as a horizontal life with other created beings.

Have you read the whole thread....or are you in the habit of an over eager judgment?

There is no gospel of God's grace. There is a gospel of the kingdom according to grace. Grace is the means not the message. This is just one of many errors...although it is very seductive to those who are looking to sin and get away with it. Notice this... Phil. 1:7 Even as it is meet for me...

It all seems ok until it is compared with the truth.

We all have free will. We are not the Lord....nor are we as faithful as the Lord. I think that there is much confusion about this. God is watching what we will do...no guarantees. We will all be judged for what we have done with what we have been given. But yes, there is a Spirit in us that...

We are to run interference, as it were, for others. We are made poor so that others may be made rich. That means we take on....in the brethren...the difficulties and the challenges of society by warfare in the Spirit. This is not about buildings and religion. It is about fraternity in agape...

The OP is about God forgiving first a person who doesn't pass the forgiveness on to others.

You aren't getting the spiritual difference between Israel in eternity and the nations in eternity. There are 2 resurrections...and the sheep/goats in the second general resurrection of all nations. The saints partake of the first resurrection...which is the better resurrection we are to...

It isn't wrong to provide health care to the poor....who are the ones who suffer in a paying system.

This needs to be taught gently in churches not preached on the street. Unless a person is given an alternative to sin...the power of grace...it will sound like condemnation.

I think there is a difference between being a "believer" and salvation. One can be a believer and still offend God. God is under no compunction to do as we want.

There are many outcomes to this life. One of them is as you have stated. David was punished as was Moses. There are real consequences to our every action. But there are some who will be rejected. These appear to be as everyone else. That is...until all secrets have been revealed. Then there...

Faith is now in the moment. Our salvation today is to enter into Christ NOW in the moment. Eternity is always NOW. But we need to keep doing this in order to bear an eternal kind of fruit. Otherwise all we have been working for will be lost.

If a person comes back from war with no arms and legs...and is blind, and deaf in one ear...is he not still saved? Some people come back in worse condition than that. So it is with salvation and the kingdom of God. Better to enter blind into the kingdom than not at all.

According to the modern semantics. You almost need a translator to get around all the funny ideas people have been taught to fill the pews and get more income for the institutions presently called churches.