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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
In that book, does Benware advocate actual punishment for the believer or go more in the direction of the loss of reward?
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He seems to be pretty light and general on both rewards, loss of rewards and discipline. He does mention rewards and loss a lot, but not in much detail. Here is a little on the discipline side:
The ground (the believer) can produce good crops and thus receive blessing from God (6:7), or it can be worthless (adokimos) and produce thorns and thistles.
If that is the case, the Christian faces temporal judgment (discipline) from the Lord (“close to being cursed” (6:8).
Benware, Paul N.. The Believer's Payday (p. 163). AMG Publishers. Edición de Kindle.
If, however, a believer turns from living according to these truths and from the fellowship of other believers and enters into a life of deliberate, continual, and willful sin, t
hen such a one faces two terrible consequences. The first terrible consequence this person faces is that of temporal judgment. There is no sacrificial protection from the temporal consequences of sin for an unrepentant believer (10:26–31). The writer is communicating a well-known truth that a believer who will not appropriate the blood of Christ for cleansing has no other way for sin to be removed.
In this continually sinful state he faces temporal (not eternal) discipline from the Lord.
Benware, Paul N.. The Believer's Payday (pp. 163-164). AMG Publishers. Edición de Kindle.