mutzrein said:
Solo said:
Those born of God, born again will have eternal life. That which they built on the foundation of Jesus Christ that was done in the flesh will be burnt as wood, hay, and stubble, but that which was done in the spirit will remain as gold and precious stones. A believer will be judged for rewards not punishment.
It seems to me that you have taken a passage out of 1 Corinthians 3 as the basis for your response since it mentions ‘gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble’. Perhaps you would like to look at the verses under this:
1 Cor 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
On the basis that you say that we are only judged for reward what do you say this means?
Our sinful flesh is judged and will die in the grave or changed at Jesus' coming. The corrupt and mortal flesh will resurrect from the grave, and those that are alive at Jesus coming will be changed in a twinkling. The mortal will put on immortality, and the corrupt will put on incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:51-57
The new creature that was born again, born of God, the inward man is begotten of God and does not sin.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 1 John 3:9-10
Paul says that the inward man is in a war with the sinful flesh in Romans.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. Romans 7:14-25
The flesh is corrupt and mortal and receives the judgment of death, but thanks to Jesus Christ, our new man, the inward man is the new creature that will unite with the new body at Jesus coming. There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1
And those who are born of God, born again, will not suffer the wrath of God.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10