To continue on the topic concerning "Kingdom Exclusion/Two Salvations"--here is an interesting topic which goes right along with that same theme. IMO, "Kingdom Exclusion" doctrine teaches about a "Protestant Purgatory". This doctrine divides up the Body of Christ and states that some "saved" people will be "cast out into outer darkness". The purpose of the Lake of Fire/outer darkness/hell, etc. is to PUNISH not to PURGE. There is no biblical evidence that Christians will be "cast out".
The Protestant Purgatory
Free Grace Theology is the theory that there is not necessarily any correlation between behavior and salvation status. Interpreting the Bible with this presumption in mind has led such theologians to a purgatorial concept along with a number of other misconceptions along the way. (A little leaven leavens the whole lump) Many Free Grace Theologians and other Christians believing such a theology object to attaching the word "purgatory" to their ideas because of its Catholic overtone, but in fact it is quite an accurate and appropriate term.
Many verses I will point out indicate that those who don't behave properly will suffer wrath. However Free Grace theologians interpret such verses as merely speaking of chastisement or discipline rather than of wrath or condemnation.
I want to acknowledge that there is not a consensus in the Free Grace community on some of the details however. On some verses they may disagree with one another as to whether the verse is referring to the "saved" or "unsaved". So also they may disagree as to the nature and degree of the punishment. For some may interpret verses like Mt 24:51 "He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." as simply experiencing a feeling of shame, while others view it as getting thrown into hell fire for a thousand years.
Another presumption of Free Grace theology is that death and resurrection doesn't actually do anything with respect sanctification. By "sanctification" I'm referring to the making a Christian sinlessly perfect. A state of which we all need to attain to enter the presence of God. The come to this conclusion in order to resolve the verses they apply to the saved which advocate an afterlife punishment with their theology that says that such punishments are for the purpose of sanctification and are not judicial in nature. For such afterlife punishments to be a matter of sanctification therefore they must assume that death and resurrection doesn't actually do anything with regards to one's sanctification.
Do we achieve a state of eternally continuous sinless perfection by being tormented in some purgatorial sense, or do we achieve it simply by grace? It is difficult to conceive of such an eternal sinless state being attained by anything but by grace. If death and resurrection doesn't do anything, then we are the same kind of people in the next life as in this life. If tormenting a person brings sinless perfection, then let's set up torture chambers in the churches! (Not unlike the dark ages of Catholicism) And what if sinless perfection could be attained by such torment at one point. What is it that guarantees that such sinless perfection with continue for all eternity? If it was attained by some kind of purgatorial torment, what maintains it?
Free Grace Theology is actually a misnomer. For while it acknowledges that justification is purely of grace, it denies the same of sanctification, which from their point of view many Christian achieve only through purgatorial torment. (Free Grace theology is actually a nice sounding term for what historically has been labeled Antinomianism.)
http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/ppurg.html
The Protestant Purgatory
Free Grace Theology is the theory that there is not necessarily any correlation between behavior and salvation status. Interpreting the Bible with this presumption in mind has led such theologians to a purgatorial concept along with a number of other misconceptions along the way. (A little leaven leavens the whole lump) Many Free Grace Theologians and other Christians believing such a theology object to attaching the word "purgatory" to their ideas because of its Catholic overtone, but in fact it is quite an accurate and appropriate term.
Many verses I will point out indicate that those who don't behave properly will suffer wrath. However Free Grace theologians interpret such verses as merely speaking of chastisement or discipline rather than of wrath or condemnation.
I want to acknowledge that there is not a consensus in the Free Grace community on some of the details however. On some verses they may disagree with one another as to whether the verse is referring to the "saved" or "unsaved". So also they may disagree as to the nature and degree of the punishment. For some may interpret verses like Mt 24:51 "He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." as simply experiencing a feeling of shame, while others view it as getting thrown into hell fire for a thousand years.
Another presumption of Free Grace theology is that death and resurrection doesn't actually do anything with respect sanctification. By "sanctification" I'm referring to the making a Christian sinlessly perfect. A state of which we all need to attain to enter the presence of God. The come to this conclusion in order to resolve the verses they apply to the saved which advocate an afterlife punishment with their theology that says that such punishments are for the purpose of sanctification and are not judicial in nature. For such afterlife punishments to be a matter of sanctification therefore they must assume that death and resurrection doesn't actually do anything with regards to one's sanctification.
Do we achieve a state of eternally continuous sinless perfection by being tormented in some purgatorial sense, or do we achieve it simply by grace? It is difficult to conceive of such an eternal sinless state being attained by anything but by grace. If death and resurrection doesn't do anything, then we are the same kind of people in the next life as in this life. If tormenting a person brings sinless perfection, then let's set up torture chambers in the churches! (Not unlike the dark ages of Catholicism) And what if sinless perfection could be attained by such torment at one point. What is it that guarantees that such sinless perfection with continue for all eternity? If it was attained by some kind of purgatorial torment, what maintains it?
Free Grace Theology is actually a misnomer. For while it acknowledges that justification is purely of grace, it denies the same of sanctification, which from their point of view many Christian achieve only through purgatorial torment. (Free Grace theology is actually a nice sounding term for what historically has been labeled Antinomianism.)
http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/ppurg.html
