“You religion has taken Pauls advice to ‘work out your own salvation’ to mean something Paul did not intend as proven by the rest of his instructions to us”
A) You can’t just ignore Paul’s advice to work out your salvation
B) It takes effort for the first time someone proclaims “Lord, Lord”, and that proclamation needs to happen daily or even hourly or more, because flawed people slip back.
C) This “Cheap Grace” has plagued “your religion” for centuries, and led many people to errors like I hypothetically suggested before: that people can think they can do any sin they want. Not so much to that extreme, but people do this on a smaller scale, with laziness and pride and small separations from God, often pushed by Satan. We are supposed to be vigilant constantly.
Choose to ignore all that if you want. Many of us sadly do, way too much in this Post-Enlightenment culture.
I do not ignore what Paul taught ... I've been teaching it for decades in fact. What your religious org has done is take that sentence 'work out your won salvation in fear and trembling' to mean fits the great deceit of catholiciism, that you must keep your salvation by works. Paul taught a much different meaning in so many of his letters, yet you have chosen to ignore that teaching in order to mischaracterize what he said and thus empower your wroks based religion.
A dead spirit is unable to discern the spiritual things, as you keep exhibiting with your posts. These do work as an excellent object lesson, and that's why I keep responding to your specious assertions.