Bema is just the place of judgement, a platform or seat, not the type of judgement.
Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world.
1 Cor 11:32
Judged here is "krinomenoi" which means passing judgement.
And the target of the judgement is on the people of God.
So to say there are different judgments based on these two greek words appears
to be reading too much into a reference to where the judgement is passed rather than
it is different between believers and non-believers.
The above is the point. You have taken two greek words describing different things and made
them into the same subject, judgement, while this is simply mixing up meanings.
The objective is simply to justify the guilty without repentance or getting right with God.
The whole concept you are following is justification without cleansing or reconciliation, because
in your view there is no reconciliation. But then there is no salvation, because everything is
about communion and oneness. Abiding in the vine, is being part of it, and living through it.
God does not have unholy vessels. Yet this is the dilemma you face and all who take a similar
road to you. Your own self condemnation can never accept God can make you pure.
Even though the gnostic teaching says you have purity in the spirit, it is limited and constrained.
But ask deeper, is there something you have failed to hand over to the Lord, an area of your
life you cannot accept, something that no matter how feeble it is yours and you want to hang on to it.
Dying to this world is much harder than any realise, the giving up of everything. No ties, no conditions,
no dependencies. That is loving God with everything you are.
The games people play have no resolution until they stop playing, defending, when before God it is just
us and Him. Facing our ultimate mortality and love alone is the eternal reality, is a hard place for people
of this world to come to accept. But the cross is the only way, death to the lusts and passions of the
flesh and walking in the commands of Christ.
This is a bit unfair to this brother. You are stating what his motives are for his belief and are assuming his motives to be bad. You are not able to get into his mind and heart to come to these conclusions.
This is a mistake and we learn it the hard way. I can give a life example of my own. I know a woman who tries to force herself to do chores that need done because she knows she will put them off for months if possible. One time, there was a plastic hangar tucked under the dryer, but sticking out about halfway. I saw it every time I went into the laundry room but it was where no one would step on it and break it, thereby ruining the hangar (or cutting their foot.) So I saw it every time for a month, and would think about picking it up but I was always either coming or going with a load of laundry, so, hands full, I kept forgetting it. She was on vacation for that month, and it was in fact her hangar and not mine, which is completely beside the point, just background. She came home from her vacation and of course began to do laundry from her suitcase. The next time I went into the laundry room, the hangar, which had sat quietly and not made a peep for an entire month, was out in the middle of the very narrow walkway. I was immediately consumed with her slothfulness because it appeared she had enough energy to move it with her foot, but not enough energy to pick it up and, since we were the only two living there, she wanted ME to pick it up! And I had to or I would step on it, slip on it, cut my foot, or need to struggle over top of it with my laundry bin in hand on a very narrow walkway.
I asked her about it but couched it in pleasant enough terms (even though inside I was murdering her). I may have said something like...we may have a ghost - Something sat for over a month in one spot and then moved, blah, blah, blah.
She said, oh, haha, no, I moved it. I knew I would leave it there forever if I didn't put it right in my face, because I can be such a procrastinator, so I put things in my path if I know I have to do them or I'll keep forgetting.
At this point, I was thinking of all the times my path had been blocked by something she put IN the path, which I always took to mean she was asking ME to do it (such as carrying recycling down to the garage, for instance, which I would always have to either literally do, or literally move, to get around it.) Well, she was very clever with her explanation now wasn't she, hmm?? Of course she was caught in her net, so I said, oh...yes, but you didn't pick it up. She said, yes, I had let your dog out because I thought he might like to pee and you had been gone for quite a few hours. He probably didn't HAVE to go yet, but I think I rather wanted some company and he cheers me up so I went and got him and let him out. On my way into the room, I had my hands full, and I knew going out of the room I wouldn't see it, so I pulled it into the path to remind myself. But he put up such a shrieking in the backyard as I was coming back out that I thought something was after him. So going into the room I pulled it out with my foot, intending to pick it up on my way out when my hands were empty, but I was so scared for your dog that I instead jumped over it to go see what was the matter. And then we came back in and he wanted to play with his ball and I forgot and haven't yet gone into the room again yet to see the reminder I left myself. (Turns out that his shrieking was at a squirrel that was teasing him up on the fence.)
Her motive was not bad and all the times I had fumed about her leaving little clues for what she would like me to do were NOT clues for me. She had no evil motive in any of the cases - her mind just works differently than mine. So I was murdering a woman who was loving and caring for my dog, which she in no way has a responsibility to do.
I was attributing evil to her and murdering her for months, yet in my mind, she was the bad one. Who do you think God was disapproving of - her or me?
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