Your comment: “You keep trying to slide back into a relationship under the old covenant, a performance based covenant. That is not the hallmark of the Church Age. It is a hallmark of Catholicism, however.
I disagree with you interpretation.
Again, do you not seem to acknowledge that free will allows one to commit evil works that may not be forgiven on Judgement Day?
How does someone grow and become mature in today’s world? By working and gaining experience in dealing with worldly matters.
As human beings, why wouldn’t we grow in faith through God’s graces by loving God and our neighbor through goods works and charity?
If you want to stand before the Throne on Judgment Day, you can insure it by simply refusing to accept Jesus now, before the Grace of God in Christ offered to you is no longer available. I will be before the Bema Seat of My Lord IN HEAVEN, but I will not be standing before the throne for judgment when the Great White Throne of Judgment occurs. I have been judged by faith in Him, belief that He has Died for Me and His Blood has sealed me against that great day of judgment. You have free will to refuse so Great a Salvation ... but I warn you, the hour is late, today is the day to take care of judgment, not when the Greta White Thorne is set.
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified. Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.
Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian, for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
No that is right on the money.. Romanism is Judaism redux.. take time to read Galatians..
The sin of the unsaved will indeed be judged at the final judgement ..and the severity of their punishment determined..
However the saved, the elect ,have had their sins forgiven and covered by Christ.. When the Father looks at the saved..He does no see their sin, because it is washed away.. He sees Christ ... we are wrapped in Christ .We come to Him not because we deserve it or have earned it.. We come to Him solely on the merit of Christ.. Our sin debt has been paid..
John 3 :17 For God did not send his Son into the world mto condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not obelieved in the name of the only Son of God.