soteriology

This thread was created as an offshoot to my comment made in this thread (about 1 Jn 2:2). I’ve opened this thread for purposes of any continued discussion/questions of my views.

Let me first copy the bulk of my previous main comment here, along with two answers I’ve already provided as a starting point.

*** Begin copy of my original comment (with a few extra links back to the originating post) ***