I wholesale agree with you . . . but . . .
I thank God that Peter was not like John and that Paul was not like James! And I thank God that the foundation gemstones of the New Jerusalem are not all the same color, the same stone.
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just to return a bit tweakily . . . to the issue of glass-pipe-ism . . .
One COULD construe from your perspective that it’s OK with you for James or Fred or Snodgrass . . .
to have the LESSER eternal status of a colored stone
while YOU, will take the pristinely more lofty one—the absolutely transparent option, thank you very much! LOL.
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Methinks God arranged for each of us to have the personalities etc. HE arranged for us to have—including the conditioning on top of the genetics.
AND that HE DELIGHTS in said differences.
Further, that said differences likely have relatively little to do with our equal-before-the-cross usefulness and value to God and The Kingdom.
Just different . . . vs lesser/greater.
But, er, I am not suggesting that one gemstone is to be preferred over another in the foundation of the New Jerusalem. And obviously God delights in the differences, He designed it that way.
That I am striving to be a diamond only means that gemstone is the best for me. It doesn't mean that among all of the gemstones, it is the most precious to God. God may prefer green as in emeralds (Revelation 4.)