If we die while squandering our inheritance (eternal life), where would that leave us?
Unless you're saying that we can't possible squander our inheritance?
After reading through these passages, I still don't follow you. Our inheritance IS eternal life, is it not?
Also, through this viewpoint, you seem to be laying a support for one of my earlier claims (from a couple of days ago) that no man is cut off from the glory of our Lord (but let's not start on that again ;o).
No, al. This is the theology I can figure out from these folks. We are all given, for free, the gift of "salvation" just for the asking. We are then judged and given a "reward" based upon what we did with our gift. What this reward is, or how it manifests itself is unclear. Jesus talked about His Father's mansion having many rooms.
So I reckon that we all will go to Heaven like if we all went to the Super Bowl. Some of us will stay in the top flight hotels on the "President's" floor, eat steak dinners and sit in a luxury box while watching the Steelers win.
Others have to stay at the Day's Inn out by the airport, take the city bus to the game, find out our ticket is standing room only behind the giant scoreboard and eat bologna sandwiches while rooting for the Cowboys.
It's still Heaven, but the rewards are different. Any place in Scripture where there is talk of being judged it is this judgement, of our place in Heaven, not our admittance to Heaven.
(It has to be the Steelers, Cowboys, Packers, etc. Why? Cause the Lions will lie down with the Rams.)
SD