Actually....... two ways of life and two totally different set of consequences were set before the tribes of Israel by the Prophet Moses. All of the prophets specified when some of their visions were conditional upon whether or not the people would repent....... or not.
On at least one occasion Judah repented in part for a little while and released their slaves....... then they took them back....... then the negative prophecies kicked into gear again.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
There have always been two ways, from the very beginning. Two trees. The tree of knowledge, which is the law and the tree of Life, which is faith. When Jesus came the law was fulfilled and He warns against that way, it's wide and leads to death. It's always led to death.
I do understand. God says it is His will that no one should be lost, but only Jesus saves. We don't know what God reveals to humans in their final moments here, to assume all those on board that ship were lost would be a mistake. God's merciful and kind; to assume your compassion towards humans is greater than God's would be err as would thinking He needs more time. God doesn't exist in time.
I came back to actually say I dozed listening to the video, completely missing the timestamp you mentioned and woke up around the 3 hour mark. I was sort of taken aback; I'm hearing all this stuff on "what I did, what I did" and then someone says they almost didn't get to heaven because they were a "stumbling block" the exact word Jesus is called! And, it waa weird. Is it all works and no grace? Works disguised as grace?
In an earlier post you said you were attracted to the RC church, me too. But, also the Eastern Orthodox, but one of the things I really like about EO is their brief "how to be saved" statement. It's the best I've seen imo. I'm not going to do it justice off the top of my head, so it's worth looking up. But, it's something like this. 1. Believe Jesus died for your sins, ask Him to be your Saviour 2. Stop sinning 3. Realize you can't stop sinning and need Jesus to do this for you.
God does everything for us. Our faith, our works, our knowledge, everything is from Him. No one can boast. And no one can love more than God loves. Not me, not you, not anyone.
It seems to me you are trying to figure out a way to "save" people who you are certain were "lost". Mormans do something like that, they get baptized for dead people. What if 200 years from now some distant person finds your name and gets baptized for you? Will you lose your salvation? Of course not, it's not for them to decide.
The beginning of the video talks about condemnation, vultures vomiting it up. But, don't we need to be even more careful not to condemn God?
