Originally posted by nook7
l understand what you are talking about with your earlier posts (before mine) however you have not answered my question nor replied to my comment about your age.
If you are not baptist then you aint going to heaven (and l dont mean those evil Southern baptists) my Grandfather who preached for 60 years said that - so all you other born again protestants and especially you Catholics (or idol worshippers as he referred to them) are hell bound.
The eternal destiny of the saved is symbolically portrayed in the 21st and 22nd chapter of Revelation. The city New Jerusalem is seen coming down out of heaven from God.
I do not want to go to heaven forever if the New Jerusalem is coming down out of heaven from God. I want to be in the New Jerusalem. So all this talk about "going to heaven" misses the point of the Bible.
New Jerusalem is the enlargement of Christ. This means that God has dispensed Himself into myriads of human beings so that the one Son of God has been mass-produced into many sons of God. God dispenses Himself into man. God imparts Himself into man. God infuses and transfuses His life and nature into a "city" of a great multitude of rredeemed, regenerated, sanctified, transformed, conformed, resurrected, glorified, and deified people.
New Jerusalem is the corporate expression of God mingled with humanity/ What Christ the Son is becomes what the city is - the uniting of divinity and humanity. This is the
"sonship" spoken of as assigned to the redeemed before the foundation of the world:
"Predestinating us unto sonship through Jesus Christ to Himself ..." (Eph. 1:5)
"Sonship" is a matter of receiving into our being the life of God. We should not think of salvation as merely agreement with a certain set of doctrines. Rather it is a receiving of God's life dispensed into man through His Spirit. Sons of God will come from many different quarters of Christianity. Sons of God may have had some extra more or less bad teachings in addition. But the crucial thing is whether or not the life of Christ was imparted into them by their receiving the Person of the Lord Jesus.
At any rate salvation is just the Person of Jesus. And we should come to Christ realizing that above all He is a living Person.