Rogerg, I believe that we have no disagreement in our understanding of God's elect, and their eternal deliverance. The salvation scriptures had conflicting meanings to me and did not harmonize because I thought I was smart enough to understand them by my own entelect, until I denied my entelect at 62 years old and the Holy Spirit revealed the truth of the salvation scriptures as being "a deliverance" according to the Greek translation.
I believe the scriptures to teach that there is an eternal deliverance for God's elect, by the death of Jesus for their redemption, and there is a timely deliverance that the elect receive, as they sojourn here on earth, by their good works and repentance of sin by following God's commandments (Which is not eternal deliverance because their eternal deliverance has already been secured)
Because of the timely deliverance is why so many of God's elect believe that their good works are involved in their eternal salvation, because there is a deliverance (salvation that is not eternal) taught as a result of the elect's repentance of sin, and following God's commandments.
I believe Matt 7 of the two gates harmonizes with this truth. God's elect enter both of the gates. The wide gate being those that are believing, and teaching false doctrines because of their lack of knowledge of the mystery of the gospel, and the straight gate being those elect that have denied their own entelect of the scriptures and have been revealed, by the Holy Spirit, the truths that are hidden from the wise and prudent, of God's elect, who have not denied their own entelect, that go into the wide gate. All who enter both gates have security of their inheritance by Jesus's death.
I also believe that the scriptures teach that there will be a greater number who go to heaven than there is that go to hell. The gospel is "good news". We do receive the mercy of God for our sinful nature that we are burdened with, that warfare that we will struggle with until we go to our graves.
God's called pastors are instructed to preach the knowledge of the gospel to his lost sheep (those of God's elect that go into the wide gate) to deliver (save) them from their ignorance of God's righteousness, that he delivering them eternally by his sovereign grace. and not by their good works.
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