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This is exactly what I've been wanting to impress on you folks. You can't have salvation if you don't have, and keep, the mechanism of that salvation--your faith. But for some reason, believing (the mechanism of salvation) is immediately disposed of as a damnable work of the works gospel if you have to have it to be saved and stay saved.
It's being erroneously understood that since Jesus is the very essence and substance of salvation (like a lifeboat is to a castaway) then you don't have to do ANYTHING to be saved. That is completely false. You have to believe, and keep on believing, to possess the thing that does the actual saving.
It's being erroneously understood that since Jesus is the very essence and substance of salvation (like a lifeboat is to a castaway) then you don't have to do ANYTHING to be saved. That is completely false. You have to believe, and keep on believing, to possess the thing that does the actual saving.
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Just keep believing and all these promises are yours. They belong to believers, not to ex-believers.
"1Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. " - 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
Do you believe that you will be saved if you don't hold fast the word of the gospel? Paul says you are not saved if you do not hold fast the word of the gospel.
"1Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. " - 1 Corinthians 15:1-2
Do you believe that you will be saved if you don't hold fast the word of the gospel? Paul says you are not saved if you do not hold fast the word of the gospel.
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16 “The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.
Luke 16:16
The Apostles were empowered to preach the Gospel to the lost.
And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Cananite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans.6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ 8 Heal the sick,cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Matthew 10:5-7
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hey raplhie, I saw a new banner on a church in my town, that said " service time 11: 00 am, everyone is welcome"
so, if your church has a banner , does it say something like " service time 11:00 am, anyone who wants to come should show up at 9:00 am, so we can interview you, then confer amongst our self, ( we are THE Bible authority ), then decide if you can come or not.
( for those of you who do not know, ralph says his church judges who can attend and who can't based on their behavior)
so, if your church has a banner , does it say something like " service time 11:00 am, anyone who wants to come should show up at 9:00 am, so we can interview you, then confer amongst our self, ( we are THE Bible authority ), then decide if you can come or not.
( for those of you who do not know, ralph says his church judges who can attend and who can't based on their behavior)
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That's what Paul did.
6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.
12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore “put away from yourselves the evil person.” 1 Corinthians 5:6-13
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13 But the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away. Luke 8:13
- who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
If a person believes for a while, then no longer believes, what do you call them?
Here is a link to the testimonies of ex Christians, for you to examine -
https://www.ex-christian.net/forum/5-testimonies-of-former-christians/
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