And of course works flow naturally from salvation. The notion that there are some metrics associated with demonstrating salvation, itself, is an equal and opposite bugaboo. You fully grasp, I'm sure, that any mortal system implies the potential for rigging.

Given my sons are 3yrs old and 3mos old, I understand the argument all too well. Just because Jesus reserve a millstone for those who offend the little ones affords me scant motive to offer MY two kids. Let me double down. I can recite John 3:16 all day, but that ain't jack for motivation to donate even 50% of mine to these Godless Commie Sodomites. Giving people the Good News is not the same as giving people your offspring.

Ponder, if you will, the case of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: have we become more like them? They sure as sugar haven't become much more like us in any way I can identify. By all means, let us interact in ways with 'the world' that drive the world toward Christ. If the interactions move the system the other way. . .

He's on a roll.

So the tl;dr version of your theology is: "Universalism"?

I'd have likely died during the attempt at birth, and taken my mother with me. I'm kind of enamored of modern technology, for some reason.

Show me the mature Christian that buys off on the "Jesus the blank check" theory. That immature notion indicates an utter non-grasp of the New Testament in general, and the Roman Epistle in particular.

You first. Please indicate how pantheism is functionally different from atheism: he who believes everything may not believe nothing, but continuously variable belief is just so much hot air.
If your compass can't claim to indicate true North, what good is it? A doorstop, I suppose.

Oh, yeah, the whole "all these translations" dodge. Let me know how that works out for ya in Eternity, Boss.

The Next Big Thing will have to be a merger with the Cupertino Borg.

Again, I'm not sure you're any more capable of un-saving yourself than you were saving yourself in the first place.

Why so? I know some people on here that really, really need to ponder this ssuff.

Fair enough. Where I can't follow is the need to set up point systems. The auto-salavtion plan is laid out in Job 40. tl;dr: you're toast.

You rebel through disobeying. "Against God" means neglecting what it says in His Word, the Bible. As a Christian, if you are in sincere prayer, you can ask, and expect to hear an answer harmonious with that Word. And frequently, that Word is going to drive you to do things that are "against self"; that is, what the natural, carnal flesh would advise you do.

The only thing I've ever sincerely hated is the tendency of the many to grind down the individual.
The rest of your accusations seem to boil down to idolatry. No, thank you.

I'm not persuaded that, once properly accepted, salvation can be relinquished (Rom8:38)
As for faith bearing fruit: what specific fruit did the saved thief on the cross beside Christ bear? Not to discount the book of James; I certainly concur on an integral/derivative relationship between works and faith. However: no scoring!

I was wondering if I couldn't mirror your results by pasting your posts into the Emacs psychiatrist.

How many times must I reject your notion that I cannot learn? Get stuffed.

Sin is rebellion against God.