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1 Thessalonians 5:9
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9 For [hoti] God [theos] hath [tithemi] not [ou] appointed [tithemi] us [hemas] to [eis] wrath, [orge] but [alla] to [eis] obtain [peripoiesis] salvation [soteria] by [dia] our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ, [Christos] KJV-Interlinear
9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, NASB
Wrath often times stands for punishment, discipline, or judgment, but it also stands for passion toward violence.
God did not place humanity on this earth for the purpose of being punished, disciplined or judged. Neither did God place humanity on this earth for the purpose of pursuing their passions (all manner of sins or anti-truth behavior), all of which have a tendency eventually toward violence.
All anti-God behavior, be they sins, crimes, asceticism's, human good, dysfunctional lifestyles or behaviors or habits or preferences, will always lead eventually to violence.
Where people go off track, is in their attitude, that their life choices, in many cases, are not threatening or harmful to others. And that is a concept of disillusion. Your lifestyle, may seem harmless to you, but any form of rejection of truth, always leads to a long history of bad decisions, which sooner or later, affect others.
You, or the topic you represent, have an impact on children, on older unbelievers, on older believers, on social norms and public policy, and so forth. And when masses of peoples pursue anti-truth concepts, then society as a whole suffers from the collapse of establishment principles.
God did not place you in this world, to invent your own set of rules for everyone, and therefore bring collapse onto everyone.
Your first purpose for being alive, is to be saved, so that you will possess eternal life and a home in heaven with God, forever.
Your alternative, and your only other alternative, is the Lake of Fire. You have no third choice for a destiny.
Beyond your salvation, then your objective in life becomes spiritual growth to maturity, which is there to enhance your salvation blessings.
It is infinitely better to be a poor person in heaven, than anyone in the Lake of Fire. But it is also even more infinitely better to be a spiritually mature person in heaven, than a poor one.
Your spiritual life is intended for your blessing in heaven, and a winning life in both meaning and purpose and fulfillment. To ignore your spiritual life means that you are throwing away the greatest opportunity, that exists only in this life, that you will ever have.
