I think we all need to take a step back and remember that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.
I feel that our disagreements are beginning to verge on personal attacks and I'd like to encourage each of us to take a step back and pray for eachother as well as ourselves.
I also believe that some of the commenters on this thread need to look beyond the thread title and consider deeply what is being said...
This is what I believe, and why I started this thread:
We are reconciled with God through belief in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are told to
1. Have faith in Jesus, AND
2. Do our best to stop sinning and rebelling against God
John 14:15
"If you live me, keep my commandments".
We will never be able to stop sinning because of our imperfect nature and so we will never be able to reach the standard of God through any works.
However our faith in Jesus makes up for this shortfall.
BUT, the point of this thread is that if we do not consciously turn away from sin and do our best to stop rebelling against God once we accept Jesus into our lives, Jesus' sacrifice will not cover those sins:
Hebrews 10:26
"Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins".
I feel that our disagreements are beginning to verge on personal attacks and I'd like to encourage each of us to take a step back and pray for eachother as well as ourselves.
I also believe that some of the commenters on this thread need to look beyond the thread title and consider deeply what is being said...
This is what I believe, and why I started this thread:
We are reconciled with God through belief in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are told to
1. Have faith in Jesus, AND
2. Do our best to stop sinning and rebelling against God
John 14:15
"If you live me, keep my commandments".
We will never be able to stop sinning because of our imperfect nature and so we will never be able to reach the standard of God through any works.
However our faith in Jesus makes up for this shortfall.
BUT, the point of this thread is that if we do not consciously turn away from sin and do our best to stop rebelling against God once we accept Jesus into our lives, Jesus' sacrifice will not cover those sins:
Hebrews 10:26
"Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice that will cover these sins".