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Archive - Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
Tentmaker ed. note: This is a response to the question,
If all are saved what are we saved from?We're saved from the lie of
conditional love..........that is, we are if we have come to Christ having heard the WHOLE gospel (of universal salvation.)
*We're saved from the lie of a god that tortures his own offspring for eternity.*We're saved from sleepless nights of wondering whether a not skuzz buckets like ourselves have been "truly" born again or not.
*We're saved from trying to adore, love and worship a god that we think is burning alive our cherished nonChristian loved ones for eternity.
*We're saved from evangelizing others with the good(?) news that God (meaningfully and redemptively) loves them conditionally, based on their performance in this lifetime.
*We're saved from jabbering a load of religious double-speak about "unconditional love" and "never-ending punishment" for people who failed to make wise and timely choices just as we (?) did.
*We're saved from despair, chronic depression and addiction to prescription drugs, alcoholism, jail time for public intoxication etc., long stays in mental hospitals, and all of the bill$ that follow.
*We're saved from thinking that we are somehow "special" for having made timely and wise choices--or because God has "elected" us because He supposedly loves us more than He does most of the human race.
*We're saved from the yeast of the scribes and Pharisees: I.E., the ideology that God gets rid of losers forever and "we" are among the few winners that will make it through the pearly gates.
*We're saved from the alienation that comes between family members when one member joins a "us only" cult.
*We're saved from becoming spiritual abusers that offer "chances" to deeply shattered people who aren't looking for more chances to blow. They're looking for a Love that never fails, even if they fail--miserably.
*We're saved from all the above so we can tell a hurting world, "God will NEVER give up on you. He loves you too much to lose you, my friend. So YOU may as well give up resisting His advances and start enjoying the Best Friend you will ever have!"
* We're saved so that we can proclaim authentically good news--and BE good news--to a suffering world that desperately needs it.
Well, as you can see, I could go on for times "eonian"--but I'll bail out for now!
Charlie
Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff