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RambleOn · 07-31-2019, 01:33 AM

I have decided that I cannot comment intelligently about whether this or any teaching of the LCs is accurate or Biblical, but I can confirm for you concretely that this is what they teach and believe:

*Those who believe into the Lord are saved once for all. You cannot under any circumstances lose your salvation, because having believed you have received the divine life, and having received the life of God the Father, you are legally entitled to his inheritance.

*Baptism is necessary to have a proper walk with the Lord after being saved.

*There will be a 1000 year wedding feast at the end of the age, which will be for the Lord and the first fruits, the overcomers. The rest of the believers will suffer in outer darkness for 1000 years and will engage in much weeping and teeth gnashing.

*After the wedding feast, the New Heaven and New Earth will be established, along with the New Jerusalem. All the believers across time will reign as kings with Christ. The jews get to be priests.

It has never been quite clear who the rest of the kingdom will comprise, however. I find it odd that there would be a kingdom with apparently billions of kings, and also millions upon millions of priests, but no mention of any citizens of the kingdom. Some clarification on that would be helpful. CS Lewis apparently thought, if you take his Narnia books to be any indication of his eschatology, that Muslims and people of other faiths would be accepted into the kingdom as well, though perhaps not as actual kings. Maybe the Ishmaelites get to partake of Abraham's blessing after all. It is all very confusing to me, but like I said, I have trouble speaking intelligently about most of these controversies.

07-31-2019, 01:33 AM	#10
RambleOn Member Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 23	Re: 1,000 Years of Outer Darkness I have decided that I cannot comment intelligently about whether this or any teaching of the LCs is accurate or Biblical, but I can confirm for you concretely that this is what they teach and believe: Those who believe into the Lord are saved once for all. You cannot under any circumstances lose your salvation, because having believed you have received the divine life, and having received the life of God the Father, you are legally entitled to his inheritance. Baptism is necessary to have a proper walk with the Lord after being saved. There will be a 1000 year wedding feast at the end of the age, which will be for the Lord and the first fruits, the overcomers. The rest of the believers will suffer in outer darkness for 1000 years and will engage in much weeping and teeth gnashing. After the wedding feast, the New Heaven and New Earth will be established, along with the New Jerusalem. All the believers across time will reign as kings with Christ. The jews get to be priests. It has never been quite clear who the rest of the kingdom will comprise, however. I find it odd that there would be a kingdom with apparently billions of kings, and also millions upon millions of priests, but no mention of any citizens of the kingdom. Some clarification on that would be helpful. CS Lewis apparently thought, if you take his Narnia books to be any indication of his eschatology, that Muslims and people of other faiths would be accepted into the kingdom as well, though perhaps not as actual kings. Maybe the Ishmaelites get to partake of Abraham's blessing after all. It is all very confusing to me, but like I said, I have trouble speaking intelligently about most of these controversies.