Originally posted by checkbaiter
Here is my point, since you want to dodge the obvious and will not answer.
You say Christ died for our past sins. Right?
Why was he crucified? He himself said he was the Lamb sacrificed for the sins of the whole world.
Why was this necessary?
Because God has always required a blood sacrifice for sin. You see this throughout the old covenant.
But Jes ...[text shortened]... ou better hope Jesus paid for all sins once forever, or we will all be cast in the Lake of fire.
This kind of statement is what I call the logic of a fool:
If you say God just forgives sin today, then why didn't he just forgive sins in the past and spared Christ all the suffering and death? You see how your interpretation makes no sense?
Why not go back further and say :
Well why did God not stop Satan from deceiving Eve? could he not have done that and spared mankind the consequences of sin?
This 'why did God not do x, y and z' nonsense logic is what causes atheism and false doctrines to flourish. God does things his way .. accept it or move away from Christianity.
Christ was sacrificed for ALL SINS... that is correct if interpreted as all the sins of the whole world.
For the individual believer the situation is different.
At the point where the believer professes faith and accepts Christ, he is washed clean and given an opportunity to live in Christ. Some fail and some succeed. Repentance and forgiveness is in the hands of God thereafter. I cannot say beyond that. Only on the day of judgment will all be revealed. There are some who know they are given eternal life and they know that they cannot lose it. There are some who live evil crooked worldly sinful lives after accepting Christ .. these live in fear of judgment as the bible says over and over .. why you keep ignoring it in favour of church dogma is beyond me.
To make a blanket statement that all Christians will get into Gods kingdom is where we part company. The bible does not support that.