Is this different from what Soyeong said above? Because it sounds like it. Further I don’t think I understand.I don’t know your mind, but I do know your history. this is the same MO I have read from you before. you can only ask for correction so often, refuse it, and then ask again without it looking like you aren’t really looking for correction. the snarky, know-it-all tone of the article also just looks bad.
and again, hopefully for the last time:
salvation is a free gift since Christ has risen and no one will remain in the grave.
however, since we are fallen we must work to prepare to receive that gift when it comes for us.
salvation isn’t dependent on what we do. however, how we experience the gift is.
1. Salvation is a free gift because we will will all be raised? I guess I’m wrong but it seems you connect salvation as a free gift with our resurrection?
2. We must work to prepare ourselves to receive the gift. So we must work to receive the gift, so it is based on works? Again I suspect this is not what you intend to say but y what is the difference between salvation based on works and salvation based as a gift based on works of preparation - it seems just more convoluted? When are we considering that we are saved - at some point in our life or at the judgement? In Protestantism we have point in our lives where we can say we are born again. Is there a parallel in the Orthodox Church, if so do these work happen before or after being born again?
3. What do you mean by ‘how we experienced the gift’ is this related to the idea of rewards?
Sorry, just realizing how much our thinking is based upon assumptions. I really have no idea of how the Orthodox Church works. But have recently been study church history which has sparked an interest in it.
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