WowLookaDuck

What about the fact that our sins have all been forgiven, past, present, and future?

Your belief in this is what's led to all your esoteric beliefs. Are you ever unsettled by the fact that no one seems to agree with you?

I, too, believe in predestination, but I also believe in free will. And I truly understand your desire to not believe in Hell. I'd love to believe what you're saying. But it's all just made up. Otherwise, it'd be in the Bible, and I mean clearly, not through strange symbols of which only you somehow know the meaning. Also, in all your theorizing, you've left out God's Justice.

By arguing that everyone is saved and that unbelievers go into the "lake of fire" for some finite amount of time, you're basically arguing for purgatory, right?

I think there's a miscommunication going on here. Maybe a difference of definitions. He can't possibly believe he never sins. How can someone deny they ever lust? Or ever harbors evil thoughts? 24/7? Obviously, he can't believe that. Only Jesus lived a life without sin. That's a basic fact. So there must be a difference in how he's defining sin or what it means to sin or what classifies as you having sinned, like perhaps our sins no longer "count" in any way and are therefore not really even sins and basically don't exist. I don't know. Otherwise, this belief that you don't sin seems rather demonic to me if it's to be taken at face-value.

"Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will." -Matthew 10:29

That's a tremendous amount of self-deception to believe you don't sin.

I ask not because I'm trans or want to be but because my sister is trans. I thought to ask because in my attempts to evangelize to her I wasn't sure if I should affirm her being trans, openly reject it, or not even identify it as relevant. But it sounds like, overall, that opposition is not based on directly applicable Biblical evidence but is instead more of a series of inferences.

Sin has brought into this world a wide range of mental illnesses and deformities, meaning "because God doesn't make mistakes" is certainly a silly argument, which is the only argument I've heard.

God is sovereign. Why is it wrong to blame him for things that happen in our lives?

I'm so sorry you are experiencing this. I work with mental illness and your description is the same kind of description given by schizophrenics again and again. This can all go away. Medication works. Please get help.

Is there any reason to suppose that what you've quoted doesn't simply means what it says? That we will experience tribulation in the literal sense of the word?

Thank you so much! You have all been very helpful.

Thank you all for your answers. I deeply appreciate the time you took to do so. I'm not sure I understand God's love. Why does it include suffering? When we love someone, don't we desire their happiness? Should I make a new thread for that?

My life has always been extraordinarily, suicidally difficult. A close friend of mine has the opposite life. Why? Does God love some people more than He loves others?