“work out your salvation with fear and trembling” is obvious, straightforward, easily understood and requires no further “interpretations”. (the meaning of is, is)
““work out your salvation with fear and trembling” is obvious, straightforward, easily understood and requires no further “interpretations”. (the meaning of is, is)”
And yet when you wrest it from the verses on either side of it, you end up with an interpretation that does not reflect the truth of what it written... as you’ve done.
Work it out doesn’t mean earn it. It means you already have it and need to work it out, live it out.
Salvation is a gift.
NOBODY pays for a gift to receive it. The giver of the gift buys it and offers it freely.
Do you give your kids Christmas or birthday presents and then expect or demand that they pay for them or work for them before they can consider them their own?
Gifts are simply received in faith, believing that once accepted they become the property of the recipient. And they do. It is recognized by law that there is a transfer of ownership which doesn’t have to be paid for.