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Everyone will be judged by their works. There is no "grace" judgment. What is grace doing for us? What are our doctrines doing to us? That's more the idea. Welcome here! :)

How can war be civil? Why can we only come together when it is to hate others?

Agreed. I hope that the movie "Hacksaw Ridge" helped people to see the alternative to active participation in killing and brutality. In the movie the main character wouldn't even touch a rifle. I would have no trouble with that. I don't see guns as evil. So for the most part I think he went too...

The spiritually blind leading others into more blindness.

Too true brother...

This is the GWT...not the Bema. The nations are judged 1,000 years after the Bema.

hmm...we don't say "slur" anymore...now it's a "misappropriation." :rolleyes:

Church people here are like American church people. Very conservative. But because we live in a harsher climate the tendency is towards a common health care system...like countries in Scandinavia. Very similar. Warmer countries tend to let people fend for themselves.

I am a gun owner...ex-target shooter and ex-hunter. To me it is a sport. I wouldn't think of hurting people with guns or knives or other potential weapons. I can also swing at a baseball without thinking of a bat as a weapon to hurt others with. The example of the Swiss (who are avid shooters)...

A spiritual person makes spiritual judgments. He/she can judge all things from that perspective....from that place. Of course that seems arbitrary to people who have not entered into the spiritual life. Since everybody seems to be judging from themselves. But this very trait or antic of men...

believe in it? I've walked in it.:) I don't know what makes you think I don't believe in life in the next age? But nobody is eternally saved until their life here is over. A race is never determined during the race. Judge nothing before the time. However, the bible speaks of entering into an...

Very good point. As long as people can live the American dream today...without any disturbance....and still hold out for dying to self later...when we actually die...there's no hatred. But if one has to choose between Christ and the American dream...well there's gonna be trouble...:oops:

How do you know you are on the narrow way...??? When you are a threat to the religious aspirations of people! Paul said that he was made to be as filth in this world....treated as our Lord was. Suffering the same indignities for being in Christ. To live sacrificially is to walk the narrow...

Is this backwards day? ;) The opposite is true. It speaks only of Christians. This is false. A Christian is held to a higher standard than the regular mortal....not lower as you are suggesting. and your post gets worse from here....

(Jas 5:9) Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

This part I understood and agree with. :)

What's with the "achieving" perfection shtick? Jesus already did that. Where is the faith in Him? We simply enter into Jesus in order to partake of HIS perfection. Jesus is our perfection. He did it. So then all we need to do is to enter into Him so we can walk as He walked by abiding IN Christ...

Not at all. Jesus was fully human as well as fully God. As such His "previous" perfection was not as a man but as a Spirit. The experience of suffering through what we go through was necessary in order for Him to become the author of OUR salvation. Jesus didn't need saving...we do! God can't...

At what time? I don't think many actually understand how salvation works. We can walk in salvation NOW by entering into Christ....for a reward. This is to do eternal works. But you must also finish your race and do well in your temporal quality... So we are being saved by grace through...

Again you are not seeing the distinction between being saved NOW by walking in Christ....and being saved at the end of our lives once our races are finished....at the judgment. There s both an eternal life and a temporal life to consider. If we have walked in the eternal life we will bear an...