And as for point #2, as far as I know, jar is the only one on earth who believes that. He may not be, but I've never heard it anywhere else.
i'm a fan of #2 but not necessarily in the doing, but in the desiring and the chasing after. if i fail once but i have hoped and prayed and sought after a right heart, my god is faithful to my thirst for him.
it is this same right heart that creates the desire for faith. i want it, i need it, i lust for it... but sometimes it comes and sometimes it doesn't.
will i be judged, do you think, based on my thirst for god or for the fact that i think my god doesn't hate fags?