My apologies for calling a pastor Eduard Grabovenko an unsaved person. Actually, he is now not just a pastor but the main bishop of an entire Russian evangelical congregation, one of the two biggest ones.
I was going to start a blog about heresies and proclaim that most Evangelical Christians are unsaved, despite that they claim. I was going to explain this by logical errors in their faith that they do, even despite having correct first principles, what makes their faith logically broken and them unsaved. My position was founded on the “fact” that “even the pastor Eduard and all his church” are unsaved, because they didn’t give me food (Matthew 25:42) when I was dying of hunger because my mother refused to feed me as a punishment for the Gospel. Therefore, I concluded we need to apply very strict logical principles to faith to consider somebody saved. In other words, I would accept as saved only a logician.
But God stopped me to do this. He reminded me (Romans 10:9) “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” I thought: It implies that Eduard and his church are saved, I have a contradiction, I need to study the Bible in more details to understand what is wrong with my opinion. And I succeeded:
(Matthew 25) 31 “But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit upon his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. 36 I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’
37 “Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing? 39 When did we ever see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
40 “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,you were doing it to me!’
41 “Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.42 For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’
44 “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’
45 “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’
46 “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”
Note, that these words of Jesus are not about individual people but about nations. Also note that the Bible considers the Church to be a separate nation. So, Eduard belongs to the Church not to the Russian nation. It is the Russian nation that refused to feed a religious fanatic that I was, not the Church. This event is about the second come of Jesus. At that time, as the Apocalypse tells, kingdoms of the Earth will become kingdoms of Christ. If Russians don’t repent, that they torture (such as by depriving of work and therefore of food) mostly harmless religious fanatics like I was, they will go to eternal fire.
Meanwhile, Eduard and his church will go to eternal life, as the verse 46 tells about righteous that is the Church.
But if a nation fed hungry and did other things required here by Jesus, then it will be given last opportunity to join the Church, already after Jesus has come.
Now I propose Eduard to make peace with me on a Zoom call. I also sinned against him: I distributed tweets that he is unsaved and I didn’t keep the peace after his “collective promise” of peace to each other.
Eduard: You were going to teach me something by hunger position and to use me for a spiritual war. Please, explain what may you have meant?
How Russian nation fell unsaved? Read this scholarly text. I explain that they fell into a conflict with me and I am a prominent mathematician, what probably makes Russians essentially lose a big part of algebra and lag behind and be conquered by other nations.