if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.Somehow, it seems instinctively wrong to use jealousy as a motivation for people get accept salvation. Jealousy is the feeling that you are losing something, or missing out. Is wanting to not be left behind enough of a reason for salvation?
Apparently it is, given that Paul seems to be using it. However, I feel sometimes that I came to faith this way, and feel like I'm missing something. I didn't come out of gratitude for what Jesus did, or because I thought it was what was supposed to be done to honor God. Fear as a motivation leaves me without an appropriate response to God, and that's haunted me all my spritually-understanding life.
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