Sis wrote:
I'm not sure which of these is a salvation issue...
That's a can of worms
I know some very good people who say that, who come from different denominational backgrounds. Yet, in teaching from the Bible, some churches can be all over the place and get stuck in their "distinctives". To be saved you must do this or believe that. What one thinks about hell are not salvation issues. Whether it be door #1, #2 or #3. They are all separation from God. I always fall to John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.
My four friends since childhood have been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...they have never steered me wrong.