Fortunately for all of us, it is not my opinion that counts. It’s God’s.
To get back on point, I prayed for a Jewish friend of mine for years. Years. That person ended up taking their own life.
i prayed about it in agony, because I really loved that person and I do not believe that suicide is the ultimate sin.
All I could come up with as an answer to my agonized tearful prayers was this...
God is fair. God always gives every one of us a fair and plain and straight-shooting place to accept Him or reject Him. God does not try anyone beyond their strength, He will never burden us with anything more than we can personally bear. This can also be applied to situations of salvation — how God is just and fair and good and desires that all would be saved. But God gave every one of us free will. That is the mystery and power of God. We have the free will to choose Him or reject Him.
But I would never think to pray for my beloved Jewish friend now that they “see face to face”... there is just no place in the Bible that would afford me that behavior. They already see and know more than I do here, what would I be praying to happen to them?
Here is a clue, for those who have ears to hear: at the Marriage of Christ and His Church in Heaven, there is the Bride with Him, there ONLY because of Him, and there is a gagle of witnesses so great no man could number them, guests come for the Wedding. Some will tell you the throng of witnesses are Angels, but other scriptures indicate they are humans, there in Heaven ONLY because of Jesus, yet they are not The Bride.
“Fortunately for all of us, it is not my opinion that counts. It’s God’s.”
Your statements seem to indicate that you think those two opinions are about the same. HOwever, Jesus words spoke to the hearts of many Christians,,, somewhat differently. You blithely opine that half of Christianity is in mortal error,,bold talk, but still, just the opinion/interpretation of the Bible, from the people who who taught you.