That’s a good example, Geoff. One can be saved from a particular sin without yet having been saved from all sin.
Correct.
I trust you mean that in the Orthodox way—that all people will end up in the same place or condition—that God’s beloved children will experience God’s consuming fire as God’s love, whereas those who reject Him or even hate Him will experience God’s consuming fire as God’s wrath.
George MacDonald taught the same. In his novel Adela Cathcart, Book 2, he wrote:
C.S. Lewis, who considered GMD to be his mentor, in The Last Battle of the Narnian Chronicles, wrote that when everyone went to Aslan’s country, most rejoiced. But the black dwarves who were in the stable when they were taken imagined that they were still in the stable. When they were offered choice food, they thought they were being offered rotten turnips from the stable, and so they rejected it. When they were offered choice wine, they thought they were being offered urine from the cattle troughs, and they rejected it with disgust.
I agree.
In general, I am far more in agreement with Orthodox thought than I am with the wide variety of positions taken in this forum, such as those taken by fundamentalists and preterists. However, I do not believe that our minds (or “souls” or “spirits” if you prefer) survive death and go somewhere after death. I believe our minds are an integral part of our whole being and cannot be separated from our body. That is why Paul said in 1 Cor 15, that if there is no resurrection we might as well eat and drink, implying that all we’ll have we’ll get in this life. Also, with respect to the resurrection, he said, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, were are of all people most to be pitied.” (1 Cor 15:19). As Qaz pointed out, is there any essential purpose in the resurrection if we go to heaven at death? You say that getting our bodies again will make us more complete. But why not be content to live eternally as disembodied spirits? No, we are a complete entity. Our body and our mind are but two aspects of this entity. When we die, we are dead. And we’ll stay dead until God or his Son raises us from death.