Not By Works
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That I am happy to hear, because I was fearing you hated all Catholics. Yes even the Lord has a problem with there Dogma, but He has issues with Protestant Dogma too.
Revelation 2:14-16 (HCSB)
14 But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
15 In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
16 Therefore repent! Otherwise, I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
I do not know, but I suspect the Nicolaitans may have been the origin of the Catholic Church. Their History has been almost totally erased.
Yes as in we don’t need to His doctrine to be saved?
Again, believe means obey.
Demons believe, but they obey Satan.
Those who do not continue in the doctrine of Christ, no longer has God.
Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 2 John 9
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...It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned. Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your case—things that accompany salvation. God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Hebrews 6:4-12
...These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.” 2 Peter 2:17-22
...These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.” 2 Peter 2:17-22
It takes perseverance, longsuffering and endurance to prepare and be permitted in the will of God, "And this we will do if God permits." "God resists the proud," sadly they think they have attained already: if you think you know you have become a teenager who thinks he knows already, that has stopped learning and cant get a Job: called but not chosen. How do you persevere through longsuffering, where work is no longer work? Having the mentality of an athlete who has been disqualified from work by the Government of heaven that He may develop his gift without being encumbered by the works of the law to prove himself. He has been made qualified already and is now under obligation to work from a place of rest, no longer glorying in His achievement as it's the Government supporting Him. This doesn't mean quit your job but do it from a place of rest as well. The purpose of work was to enter into rest. A house built so that we would have a place to Live and move and have our being in God: to see Jesus, "In everything give thanks...
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you can be saved and remain among the nations of the saved: losing reward of a crown of life. "Some will be saved but as through fire but will lose their reward," they do not become eternal with God: not the Bride. The salvation you described applies to all men. "Jesus the saviour of all men, especially of them that believe." "The sea will give up the dead that are in them, death and hell will give up the dead that are in them, and everyone will be judged according their works."
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