Do you think transgenders go to heaven?

[heartwashed]

It would seem they did not "believe in their heart."

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart
that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9

That would seem to make sense.

Some people are ten inches away from salvation.

For all practical purposes, they may appear to be believers; and may have even convinced themselves that they are going to heaven.

 

[Cameron143]

According to Psalms 94:20, some rules are simply unjust and to break them is not to violate the principle of love.

Galatians 5:22-23, in light of Psalms 94:20, tells us that if we live according to love, we will not violate any just law.

So, if a minister is godly and breaks the rules, it follows that the rules that were broken were unjust ones.

Or so he thinks. Have you been banned before?

 

[Cameron143]

It is a given that when it says, "they believed for a while" that the object of their faith was Christ and Christianity.

More likely they trusted in some prayer or what a well-meaning person told them.

 

[Magenta]

That would seem to make sense.

Some people are ten inches away from salvation.

For all practical purposes, they may appear to be believers; and may have even convinced themselves that they are going to heaven.

John 6:37

 

[heartwashed]

Or so he thinks. Have you been banned before?

From certain other message boards.

 

[Snacker]

Or so he thinks. Have you been banned before?

I have no doubt

 

[heartwashed]

John 6:37

However, they can leave on their own accord.

 

[heartwashed]

Or so he thinks.

The only way a minister is going to be banned for breaking a just rule is if he is ungodly.

 

[heartwashed]

More likely they trusted in some prayer or what a well-meaning person told them.

Or, maybe they were merely "trying on Christ" like a pair of pants.

 

[Cameron143]

I have no doubt

People who rail against things strongly generally portray a strong and opposite view. Rather than forgive and move on they tend to simmer.

 

[HeIsHere]

More likely they trusted in some prayer or what a well-meaning person told them.

That was not a thing when Jesus told this parable.

 

[heartwashed]

People who rail against things strongly generally portray a strong and opposite view. Rather than forgive and move on they tend to simmer.

I pray the blessing of God on those who have persecuted me...that He may receive them as sons (Hebrews 12:6); and that, He might "seek out their wickedness until He finds none" (Psalms 10:15).

 

[Cameron143]

Or, maybe they were merely "trying on Christ" like a pair of pants.

You are bold in your speech. I admire zeal. But some of your doctrine is a little loose. Perhaps an attitude of iron sharpening iron where everyone gets a sword would prove helpful.

 

[heartwashed]

You are bold in your speech. I admire zeal. But some of your doctrine is a little loose. Perhaps an attitude of iron sharpening iron where everyone gets a sword would prove helpful.

Do you have a Bible? Then you have a sword.

No one is preventing you from using it.

 

[Cameron143]

That was not a thing when Jesus told this parable.

Sure it was. It just took different forms.

 

[Cameron143]

Do you have a Bible? Then you have a sword.

No one is preventing you from using it.

I meant rather than trying to knock everyone's sword out of their hands, try sharpening your sword against theirs.

 

[heartwashed]

But some of your doctrine is a little loose.

This appears to me to be an accusation without evidence.

What, in my doctrine, has been loose?

 

[heartwashed]

I meant rather than trying to knock everyone's sword out of their hands, try sharpening your sword against theirs.

All they need to do is put up their swords by quoting any scripture that pertains to what I am saying.

I am glad to sharpen my own sword in such a fashion.

 

[Cameron143]

I pray the blessing of God on those who have persecuted me...that He may receive them as sons (Hebrews 12:6); and that, He might "seek out their wickedness until He finds none" (Psalms 10:15).

That's awesome. But if you had forgiven them you would have covered their sins; not announce them.

 

[Cameron143]

This appears to me to be an accusation without evidence.

What, in my doctrine, has been loose?

Baptism alone in Jesus name, baptismal regeneration.