Right here...
Both groups are believers, however, not everyone is fully sanctified and every one -- mature and immature is to be tested by his works after he dies
You claim every person is to be tested by his works...That's not true and that's not what the scriptures said...
Co 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
1Co 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Every man's WORK shall be made manifest and the fire will test every man's work...
No man will be tested...
It's pretty simple and it works like this:
A man writes two lists of things he done as a Christian...One list for things he's done for the Lord and will receive rewards for...Another list of the things he has done that may even remove rewards from God...
At the Judgment seat of Christ, Jesus will look at the list of bad, or not so good things and burn up the list...That list is no longer part of his history...
The good list was also set to fire but it wouldn't burn...It passed thru the fire...
The man suffers loss because he wasted so much of his time doing things that did not benefit the Lord and he lost out on many rewards... But he is still saved and, as yet by fire since the fire burned up any record of the man that in other situations could have brought condemnation...
It's as simple as that...The man does not get judged...He has been judged already and found to be just...
It’s just so simple to understand. A person would have to be purposely ignoring the words to miss this.
That is not my post. Mad Dog was right.
God made is simple on purpose......
1 Corinthians 1 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord."
If I ask you to make the list of your good works and bad works and based on that list let you in my house or not, sure, I would have judged you.