Help with Heavenly Purgatory

[marie glen]

Some interesting things I am seeing in this class is:

1) Many are resigned to the fact that they aren't suppose to understand God.  That He is incomprehensible. 

2) That faith is believing without knowledge.  THat is one gets on a plane having faith without any knowledge of whether it will fall out of the sky.   We have faith in a God we don't really understand or unable to rationalize.  We just simply believe.

3)The gospel is offensive and the offensive part is that some people are going to hell.  In fact, lots of people are going to hell. If we remove this, we remove the offensiveness of the gospel. 

oh yah.. those drive me a little crazy (not really, but you know, in a sense! :laughing7: ) I could never be happy with #'s 1 and 2!! Oiye!!

.."Spirit of Truth".. "will guide into all truth.." ..I just shrug my shoulders and figure just because someone else isn't getting on the train (on board) doesn't mean I have to stay off the train too! (miss the flight!)

#3.. To me the gospel is "Good News"!! I guess i've always thought the 'offensive' part folks refer to is that there is the 'right way' and then there is "sin".. personally I don't even use the word sin, but imperfection which I think is a closer representation and makes it less "personal"/in yer face.. I leave the convincing of sin to the Holy Spirit.. unless moved by the Spirit else wise or I'm specifically asked about something..

IF I be blind, I have asked Him to cure me.  Onward I go and as I gain more knowledge of Him, I can't believe anything else it seems.

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I've always kind of, pretty much believed in "all saved"/will be saved.. but since coming to Tentmaker (forum) regularly, I've gotten much more solid about it.. And like you - "I can't abandon UR." -  I cannot envision not believing/knowing u.r. ..And now also, I see it everywhere in His Word/His promise. And also every where in the very fabric of life.
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