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The Reality of the Gentle God's Interaction with Humanity

It's not that God won't listen to those who aren't faithful enough. God doesn't take direction from anybody! He is ABLE to help those who are faithful - read that, "trust HIM". We are not worthy of trust, He is. He is interacting with all of humanity as much as we allow Him to. We are sick and delusional. He is coaxing us with gentle persistence. Even those who are being saved would not be if He didn't mark us out from the beginning and arrange things so we would go to Him!

A Strategy to Bring Us Together

Here's a strategy to resolve tension between Sin-by-Sin Loss-of-Salvation and easy-believism, and the outgrowth of that tension in more modern times between perceptions of how to preach the gospel and how to meet together. Tell them the truth at the outset, because God brings people to Himself in every case, so it's not us whose demeanor matters concerning salvation. It seems like it matters, because demeanor was a large part of the presentation layer of the earlier problem of Sin-by-Sin hatefulness. Adding in the World's recent push to unify, and love seems to be wrapped up in extreme politeness and in sacrificial giving; it's definitely a hard stance, though, to tell someone the actual gospel - we are alive and they are dead, we know God and they don't, we have the answer for eternal life and they will suffer consciously for a lot longer than their present lives on Earth, and the dividing line is believing 4 things and doing 1 thing in accordance with the Scriptur...