Cheryl Schatz

Craig,
I understand your point, however what I am saying is that the Bible doesn’t ever use the term “will be saved” for dead people. The reference that I gave in 1 Cor. 3 is not about the dead. It is about a living person appearing before the judgment seat. I do grant you your point that the argument is strengthened by the conditional statement. However I am not alone in believing that the future tense proves that this is not talking about a dead person.

That Paul does not have Eve in mind here is clear because the verb translated “will be saved” is future, and he also uses the plural pronoun “they.”
John MacArthur: The MacArthur Study Bible (1 Ti 2:15).