I listened to most of this guy's speech and I thought it was pretty well on the mark. Sins of omission far outweigh our sins of commission. Matthew 25 is rather piercing.
But I will take exception to his comment that went something like "yes, we are saved by grace and not by works but...." But what? Is he implying that if we believe and accept Christ as our Savior that upon death we are still allowed into the kingdom despite our lack of charity?
That is my question.
Yes you are.
But you might be put out, at the outer regions of heaven in a small little one bedroom shack. Rather than the many Mansions that are there.
In other words, you won't be able to reap much of the rewards given in heaven.
I appreciate your offering up your opinion or beliefs. My beliefs do differ, but align with Catholic teaching. God's justice and mercy are made manifest in a place called purgatory. There we are purified of all of our laziness, sinfulness, etc. God is not one to be mocked (by some believer claiming if not demanding entrance into the holy kingdom) nor is anything defiled allowed into the kingdom as spoken of in Revelations.
Scripture backs up a place for mercy and justice to be meted out, much more than it suggests an "outer region" of heaven where we just scrape by to get in. That is my belief.
I agree with you. Read post # 7
I'm speaking metaphorically after you go through purgatory.
I also assume (my bad), that people should read at least the page or a few pages before they post. Most do not seem to do that though. Perhaps turzaka did not read the last page either. So I agree with you.I should have stated that same thing as you did, along with the rest of what I said.
The Bible also says that you can receive many crowns, for what you do here. We just don't know what only one crown gives you in rewards. One crown for just believing without doing the rest of what the bible says for Christians to do. So I made a metaphor.