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But we don't know if we will be saved while we are still searching for that straight gate. Yes, my husband and I took to the scenic route to salvation, but until we got to the gate, I don't believe I whould have went to heaven if I had died.

I personally wouldn't want to take the chance, or tell someone they are OK when they haven't accepted the straight way.

Becky

Maybe God will accept those who he know is truly searching but not arrived yet. But the bible doesn't say he will. He says there is one way, and the way is straight. He says what he means and he means what he says:) If you start accepting the smallest bend then nothing is absolute. Give and inch take a mile. God knew we were that way, so he never gave an inch according to the OT. Why should we beleive he will now.

You get no argument from me. The sure way is the "straight and narrow". That is not the usual way of life however.

As for the OT:

HEBREWS 8:

6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry which is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second.

8 For he finds fault with them when he says: "The days will come, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I paid no heed to them, says the Lord.

10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

11 And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."

13 In speaking of a new covenant he treats the first as obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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The OT is not part of my general reading. I refer to it only when someone else makes a reference I must, just to keep them honest, check out.