I was wondering whether you meant saved
from something - which now I see you did -
or you meant saved
for something.
The question began with this, from you:
"Now as as for a purpose, I would say that as a Christian we should have at our root the need to share the gospel with others so that they too can be saved."
If the root purpose of being saved, is being saved
from judgment and condemnation, that leaves an eternity of free time after judgment with no purpose and nothing to do? Did Jesus come and die for us for that? Is the purpose of God in creating us only to save us from His righteous condemnation of us?
What is missing here?
ALL people when they are saved, are saved FROM something TO something.
There will be ZERO time between the judgement of the Christian and the eternal glory of heaven.
The Christian has already had his sin judged and has been justified by faith.
Titus 3:7 -
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Romans 5:1 -
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 Corth. 5:6..........
Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord."
2 Corth 5:8..........
. . . we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. "
That is, when a believer dies, they are immediately with Christ. Therefore, it will be that a believer will stand before Christ immediately after death and receives their rewards.
Then The RAPTURE will in fact be the Judgment Seat of Christ for those who are still alive.
2 Corth 5:9-11.......
"Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences."
1 Thessalonians 4:17 -
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
1 Thess. 4:51..........
“Behold I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep
but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the at the last trump; for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
So then what you are asking is..........
Why not lay aside wrath without a sacrifice?
God did not make up a rule or impose a new punishment on us; rather, He was revealing to us an unalterable, eternal reality—if you depart from the Sustainer of life, then you logically cut yourself off from the possibility of a continued existence.
That being the unalterable reality, those who reject Life only have one other option, and that is Death.
Saying that God made the “rules” by which sin is atoned for is somewhat like saying that Isaac Newton wrote the law of gravity. Newton described the effects and nature of gravity, but the law of gravity preceded and transcended his description. In similar fashion, the Bible describes the nature of sin and righteousness, but the universal laws concerning sin and righteousness, death and life, and justice and mercy precede and transcend the writing. God’s laws flow eternally from the nature of God Himself.
I hope that helps you.
