Judgment & Forgiveness: the contradictions.
HUMILITY & PRIDE
Humility is not: Merely seeing yourself as weak, unintelligent, unattractive, etc. 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 What if you are weak, unintelligent, unattractive, etc? Does that make you humble? No. Not necessarily. Humility is to put truth first.
Pride is not: Merely seeing yourself as strong, intelligent, attractive, etc. What if you are strong, intelligent, attractive, etc? Does that make you proud? No. Not necessarily. Pride is to put yourself first.
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Humility produces accurate knowledge, mental models inside you, of: God’s . . qualities abilities achievements your . . . . qualities abilities achievements failures other’s . . qualities abilities achievements failures and how yours compare with everyone’s.
Pride produces inaccurate knowledge, mental models inside you, of: God’s . . qualities abilities achievements your . . . . qualities abilities achievements failures other’s . . qualities abilities achievements failures and how you compare with everyone.
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See: C.S. Lewis on What It’s Like to Meet a Truly Humble Person and: Screwtape on Humility., , , ,
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	SO, ADDING HUMILITY TO THE EQUATIONS
	JUDGMENT TO COME								BELIEF GOD FORGAVE US ALL
	Jesus said that proudly doing good does not impress God: Matt c6 v1-18: Don’t be a religious hypocrite, all for show. my abbreviation Hence Jesus implied that you must humbly earn your way to Heaven.								Merely to want to rely on, lean on: the righteousness that the Cross gave you and never again: on your own righteousness, means you’ll already have needed humility.
	While you are humbly doing good you probably don’t think about the reward of going to Heaven. You probably just do it out of self-expression. Hence, when you go to Heaven, it will be a surprise reward.
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			THE BIG CONTRADICTION BETWEEN JUDGMENT & FORGIVENESS
			JUDGMENT TO COME			BELIEF GOD FORGAVE US ALL
			The big contradiction, between Judgment & Forgiveness, is that their cause-&-effect lines run in opposite directions.
			Humbly doing good & not bad causes us to go to Heaven.				Gratitude for our new eternal life causes us to humbly do good & not bad.
			Hence Judgment cannot be Forgiveness and Forgiveness cannot be Judgment.
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		THE LESSER CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN JUDGMENT & FORGIVENESS
		I reproduce, below, an earlier table because it happens to show the lesser contradictions between Judgment and Forgiveness.
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		JUDGMENT TO COME						BELIEF GOD FORGAVE US ALL
		Without mentioning Forgiveness, Jesus said the following:						Without mentioning Judgment, Jesus said the following:
		God will accept or reject any of us according to what we have done. He’ll let no-one off of anything. We earn our way into Heaven. Heaven is a reward.						God will accept or reject any of us according to our belief in Jesus. He’ll let believers off of everything. We are freely let into Heaven, Heaven is not a reward.
		God will, in the end, choose only those who, in this life, humbly did good & not bad. This is regardless of their religion or lack of it.						God will, in the end, choose only those who, in this life, believed God Forgave us all. This is regardless of the good or bad they’ve done.
		,,,,Perhaps also see earlier section: SCRIPTURES THAT SUPPORT THE ABOVE STATEMENTS.,,,,
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		THE CONTRADICTIONS WITHIN JUDGMENT & FORGIVENESS
		As well as: the big contradiction between Judgment and Forgiveness
		And: the lesser contradictions between Judgment and Forgiveness
		there is also: a contradiction within Judgment: Most people have done varying amounts of both good and bad. Hence Judgment, God Judging us according to what we’ve done, would be, for those who won’t quite make it, too unjust for a just God to do. So Judgment is impossible. and a contradiction within Forgiveness: God will send, to Hell, those who’ve simply never heard/read/seen the Gospel convincingly presented. That would be too unjust for a just God to do. So Forgiveness, too, is impossible.
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