Outer Darkness?

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Originally Posted by Drake

"So I want to bring these three things up again, as we didn't get many responding aye or nay. Can we have consensus on these three basic principles?

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1. The Father loves us and we are reborn with a gift of new life - His life - in us, and therefore children of God who are true believers are thereby saved eternally.

2. There are many warnings in the OT and NT telling us we are accountable - there is some degree of scrutiny by God in the next life (and also this life) - for our works after we receive the new birth.

3. God is righteous and His judgments are just. He is firm yet He is fair in all His ways."

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I think this is missing a very important point that we learn in Matt 18.

Very often Christians think it is a binary choice -- overcomer or outer darkness. Matt 18 begins with "who is the greatest" and ends with the one being sent to debtors prison. But why? Because he violated the principle "forgive us as we have forgiven those that sin against us".

On this thread there have been mentioning of those who have no hope of being an overcomer to the point it has become a sad joke. But, can't you at least forgive those who have sinned against you? That is all it takes to avoid outer darkness.