Lacy Evans said:Thank you. (Sorry I lost my cool in public like that!)
It was a bit of a tongue in cheek response to another thread with a similar name. And I realize that the question wasn't really worded well but oh well.
Reward for disobedience is easy to prove in scripture. (It's just a negative reward)
Being chastened for Christ's righteousness was more the (howbeit silly) question. Many have said that a doctrine of reward according to works is "trusting in our own righteousness" as opposed to Christ's.
My point was that our reward is based on what we do after we are saved.
We all have Christ's imputed (positional) righteousness. But almost the whole NT is written to motivate Christians to walk in practical obedient righteousness.
In one sense we have a "full dose". We are absolutely righteous positionally. There is no differentiated reward (or chastening) for this righteousness.
In another sense we each must get our own as we yield to the Holy Spirit, resist the flesh, and try to walk in (practical) righteousness. This is what we will stand before the JSOC and answer for.
At the end of the day, it will all have been Christ's righteousness, but that in no way negates our filial accountability.
BTW, thanks for the Christian civility and charity displayed in your post.
Lacy
It's not so much the idea of reward/punishment in this life or at the JSOC or at the final judgement that is hard for me to accept. It's the idea of a 1000 year purgatory that is a scriptural stretch. I think you have to do some scriptural acrobatics to get that.
Of course, you're going to have a hard time convincing those of us that believe in the P of the TULIP that some believers, indwelled by the Holy Spirit and predestinated to be conformed to the image of His son, will not preservere in the faith by which they are saved.