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Jesus was all about salvation--but not as it is presented to us.
Salvation rightly understood is about dying to the right things
that we might live in the service of the right things. And who is to say what is right?
Meister Eckhart, who was probably--in my opinion--murdered before being sentenced for heresy in 1328, said,
"The final leave-taking is leaving the God (of Christianity)
for the God (who is).
The God of belief or the God who is to be known? Which will it be? Salvation hangs in the balance (we might say, "On the cross).
The Gnostics were all murdered in the genocide that was early Christianity for proclaiming a gospel at odds with the way the Church of Rome, and Irenaenus, Bishop of Lyons, understood, proclaimed, the gospel, evidencing what Jesus had foreseen with his "those who lose their lives for my sake will find it. Raising the questions, "What is the death worthy of resurrection?" and "Who is to say so?"
Who is to say what is right and what is wrong?
How are we to know who is right and who is wrong?
Who says so?
We each make up our own minds--and realize by living out the foundational truth of how things are: The bread of affliction is the way of life. The cup of suffering is the cup of salvation. This is so no matter how we understand what is life and what is death.
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 
Orthodox Christianity is a perspective, heresy is a perspective, with everything hinging/hanging on how we see what we look at, or how we look at what we see. The Truth depends on these things, making the truth a matter of opinion, until that day when “all is to be revealed.” Which either will or will not be, depending on how we see what we look at…
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