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GBA, I agree with you.

John said it very well:

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

It's taken me a long while, a lot of "mistakes" and my own getting in the way, but I now have a sense of what that means and understand the testimonies, yours and others', of those who have spoken of the almost overwhelming LOVE one has for others, even for those who come against them.

I've witnessed it in action, too, with one teacher in particular. Impressive, but I truly didn't understand what I was seeing all those many years ago until recently, and then only barely. In the real world I can tune a radio, but I have had much trouble tuning my own inner radio transceiver.

I hate to think what that honestly says about my soul and its progression, but it is what it is. Free will in the hands of the untrained and unsuspecting, doncha know.

Your sharing your experiences have added to my understanding.

(As an aside, I've read somewhere that a prophet is never welcome in his hometown, but have had trouble with that concept, too. Thanks for the demo.)

You’re preaching a salvation based on works then.

If you don’t continue in whatever, you are lost.

Jesus said He would not lose ANY that the Father gave Him.

We are saved by faith and kept by the power of God, not our own works.