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Yes, That is a really good observation. I am 2 pages down so don't know if there has been any response, but that "once saved always saved" gives True Christians a bad name. The world in general, those who have never know the Word, and are asking about what it is to be a Christian, see someone doing all the evils of the wicked, at the same time telling them "Yep, this is what being a Christian is all about".
I really think you hit the nail on the head. It gives God a bad name. The world doesn't know if the person was really saved or not, they just see the evil of one who can say it. And if it were the truth how would we be able to tell the Christian from the Kenite. That is awesome.
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Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones put it this way:
We must always be careful to define sanctification not only in terms of our moral state and condition, but of our moral state and condition in relationship to God. That is absolutely vital. People can be highly moral but that does not mean that they are sanctified. The word must always carry with it this conception of our relationship to God, our standing in His presence. So sanctification is not morality and purity in and of itself. It is all that in relationship to God. There is, therefore, an essential difference between the best moral person that the world may put forward and the Christian who is being sanctified.[1]
Sanctification is inseparably connected to, and originates in, the believer's saving relationship to God the Father by faith, through the atoning work of Jesus Christ, by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. Morality that is not the product of regeneration by the Holy Spirit is nothing more than the "filthy rags" righteousness
We must always be careful to define sanctification not only in terms of our moral state and condition, but of our moral state and condition in relationship to God. That is absolutely vital. People can be highly moral but that does not mean that they are sanctified. The word must always carry with it this conception of our relationship to God, our standing in His presence. So sanctification is not morality and purity in and of itself. It is all that in relationship to God. There is, therefore, an essential difference between the best moral person that the world may put forward and the Christian who is being sanctified.[1]
Sanctification is inseparably connected to, and originates in, the believer's saving relationship to God the Father by faith, through the atoning work of Jesus Christ, by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit. Morality that is not the product of regeneration by the Holy Spirit is nothing more than the "filthy rags" righteousness
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I notice you do not seem to be able to see example others put forward which are valid
perspectives. That won't work with me because I will call you out on it every time.
What you fail to grasp, putting forward different perspectives is just that.
You seem to want to deny value in discussion and debate about such things.
Is it because it makes you feel vulnerable and awkward?
I have no problem with you suggestions, I will just answer them as applicable.
God bless you
perspectives. That won't work with me because I will call you out on it every time.
What you fail to grasp, putting forward different perspectives is just that.
You seem to want to deny value in discussion and debate about such things.
Is it because it makes you feel vulnerable and awkward?
I have no problem with you suggestions, I will just answer them as applicable.
God bless you
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So Jesus's offer cannot be turned down, I will be arrested and forced into heaven whether I like it
or not. It this your idea? The angel police will round up these recalcitrant believers and force
them through the pearly gates.
Odd that Jesus throws out those who are not ready and appropriately dressed and responding.
I think maybe your paradise is not the same heaven Jesus is talking about, where the angels
force people to go.
or not. It this your idea? The angel police will round up these recalcitrant believers and force
them through the pearly gates.
Odd that Jesus throws out those who are not ready and appropriately dressed and responding.
I think maybe your paradise is not the same heaven Jesus is talking about, where the angels
force people to go.
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Funny this, making statements and then explaining what you mean.
Does this mean you actually do not know what they mean or are just too scared to put forward the
points?
Saying something is irrevocable is very strong.
Jesus salvation is written in the lambs book of life, and if you are there you are heaven bound,
if not to the lake of fire you go. Now that sounds irrevocable.
Problem is God blots people out, so until the day comes, things are not certain.
Does this mean you actually do not know what they mean or are just too scared to put forward the
points?
Saying something is irrevocable is very strong.
Jesus salvation is written in the lambs book of life, and if you are there you are heaven bound,
if not to the lake of fire you go. Now that sounds irrevocable.
Problem is God blots people out, so until the day comes, things are not certain.
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First, I commend you for the underlined which is an honest evaluation......and then you blew it with the second statement.....My view is as follows and this is the only thing I have ever seen posted and is factual...
a. A child of GOD (one actually saved) will not and cannot live a lifestyle of continual sin <---JOHN states as much
b. Saved children of God do fail and fall into very grievous sins (David is one such example)
c. GOD chastens every SON whom he receives....SOMETIMES those found in "b" above have the fire whipped out of them, can forfeit rewards, suffer diseases and or the loss of children (as evidenced by DAVID) and in extreme cases forfeit physical life.
a. A child of GOD (one actually saved) will not and cannot live a lifestyle of continual sin <---JOHN states as much
b. Saved children of God do fail and fall into very grievous sins (David is one such example)
c. GOD chastens every SON whom he receives....SOMETIMES those found in "b" above have the fire whipped out of them, can forfeit rewards, suffer diseases and or the loss of children (as evidenced by DAVID) and in extreme cases forfeit physical life.
I notice you do not seem to be able to see example others put forward which are valid
perspectives. That won't work with me because I will call you out on it every time.
What you fail to grasp, putting forward different perspectives is just that.
You seem to want to deny value in discussion and debate about such things.
Is it because it makes you feel vulnerable and awkward?
I have no problem with you suggestions, I will just answer them as applicable.
God bless you
perspectives. That won't work with me because I will call you out on it every time.
What you fail to grasp, putting forward different perspectives is just that.
You seem to want to deny value in discussion and debate about such things.
Is it because it makes you feel vulnerable and awkward?
I have no problem with you suggestions, I will just answer them as applicable.
God bless you
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Is this the theological gnostic A team on duty now.
dc - drivel, psycho babble, opinion
eg - do not answer, get angry
smooth - read the bible
Deflection and avoidance. I suppose if scripture says working faith is true faith you cannot
really argue with it, or we are called to do good and not evil, or Jesus has set us free to be
blameless and pure on the day of His return.
Gods irrevocable call to Israel, except they were rejected so we could be grafted in.
Paul says some will return, before the end, because God will honour the call, but individually
this is not rosy salvation, rather as Korah discovered, swallowed by the ground and never
entering Gods rest and being removed from the book of life. More like curtains guys.
dc - drivel, psycho babble, opinion
eg - do not answer, get angry
smooth - read the bible
Deflection and avoidance. I suppose if scripture says working faith is true faith you cannot
really argue with it, or we are called to do good and not evil, or Jesus has set us free to be
blameless and pure on the day of His return.
Gods irrevocable call to Israel, except they were rejected so we could be grafted in.
Paul says some will return, before the end, because God will honour the call, but individually
this is not rosy salvation, rather as Korah discovered, swallowed by the ground and never
entering Gods rest and being removed from the book of life. More like curtains guys.
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