Hi Michele,
I think what rvhill was saying, is that all will be saved in the end.
We should be thinking about how, as in the first resurrection or the lake of fire.
1Ti 2:3 For this is good and acceptable before God our Savior,
1Ti 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to a full knowledge of truth.
What the churches teach is all you have to do is believe and you will be zipped into a heavenly paradise, when you die.
There is so much more to it.
Everyone will give an account and will be judged, for everything they have done.
Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.
So for those that think they believe in Christ is all they need, and don't have a thing to worry about, well the lake of fire is going to be a real shock. Everybody is going to have to answer, for everything that they think they are getting away with now. It is not going to be a good experience for them, that is what I think the 'weeping and gnashing of teeth' is all about.
Mat 13:49 So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous
Mat 13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Everybody will have to learn obedience, now judgment on the elect is easier, later in the lake of fire, it will not be a hard experience for the rest.
mercy, peace, and love
Kat