Hawkeye wrote:The level to which you live the gospel. In spite of God's perfect love, Satan was still cast out of heaven. He wasn't permitted to heckle and haze God with false accusations. Schmo and I won't be in contact in the afterlife. The feeling is mutual, just as it is with God and Satan. You can kind of see a snapshot of the type of segregation that will exist in the afterlife by observing how people (ignore foes), restrict posters to specific forums here on this board.
You're making it too easy for yourself.
I don't believe in an afterlife, but if I did, I know it's far more difficult. If this life really is a test, and if "love they neighbor as thyself" really is the second greatest commandment, then obviously, it can't be so easy as just ignore everyone you don't like. You have to learn how to forgive them and love them anyway. What would be the point of a social test where love is the highest end if you can just put everyone you don't like on ignore and expect God will reinforce that ignore for you in the next life? Jesus said he will forgive whom he will, but of you it is required to forgive all. Even Schmo and Veritas.
For you, hard work in the form getting your ass out of bed and doing your job comes pretty easy. Accepting others is very difficult. That's the real test. You have to love your neighbor, including liberals and people of other races, and especially people who are lazy and on welfare. You have to love people on welfare more than anything else in the world. That's what your gospel says. You're clinging to what you hope might be a technicality, but no prophet has ever interpreted the banishment of Satan to mean you can just flip a switch and live your life in a silo only loving and accepting people that you deem worthy.