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The Ask NT Write Anything podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Ask Entryte Anything podcast.

I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. I'm the co-host of this program, and I'm joined by...

I'm Tom Wright in Oxford in England.

And we are so glad that you've joined us, because this is the program where we strive to answer your questions, your questions about faith, spirituality, the Bible, and what it means to follow Jesus

in the 21st century. And Tom, as always, our listeners have sent us some great questions.

They do not disappoint. And our first question comes from Ila Peterson in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada.

Now, I've been there.

I've been there in winter where it was minus 20.

I mean, you've spent time in Canada as well, Tom.

You know what we're talking about.

Here's the question that Ila has for us.

She says, I've met people who believe in a, some of us are saved and others are not

approach, and some who believe that God loves and saves everyone. I'm not completely

comfortable with either of those extremes, especially when the former invariably count themselves

among the good guys. Would I be too far off the mark to take

the sheep and the goats or wheat and tears metaphors and just apply them to myself, saying,

Lord, help the better parts of me become stronger, and when the time comes, separate the bad

parts of me, burn them, destroy them completely and finally, I don't

...