Not By Works

Assuming you're married, was your spouse forced to marry you? Can your spouse leave you at anytime? Does your spouse's past heart surrender to you demand that said heart can't be withdrawn from you?

i believe i will never be "unsaved" i think that very idea is nonsense.
and i do not believe Satan has any authority or custody over me whatsoever.
and i have no intention of spending my life pursuing sin even if my flesh wants to and even if it wouldn't mean God would forsake me & reneg on His gifts and promises.
i do not believe Satan owns any holly trees. you probably should have said figs if you knew your Bible, but those don't belong to Satan either.

so, dude, you don't really have any idea what i believe. you probably shouldn't go around telling people what others believe when what you're saying is not at all what they believe -- that's pretty much definition of slander, OK? and the Bible happens to say something about whether a Christian should slander or not.

God and Satan have joint custody, and we can either abide in the Vine or Satan's Holly tree.

OSAS most definitely is a license to commit sin

i think i would rather creep our someone who is supposedly a believer in a religion absolutely soaked with blood and death, with a scripture containing Ezekiel 37, than i would go look for a different avatar to please such a person.

maybe i ought to love deeper. do you think i've lost my salvation if i refuse to serve you in this matter?

what about you answer the question instead of deflecting?

does God own you?
does Satan own a piece?
you own any of yourself?
you gonna be able to get away with taking from God what belongs to Him? is anyone? or is God going to get that back?

it's your own statement; it's not like i'm just throwing wild accusations at you from nowhere. i'm just asking you to clarify your own words.

is this what you believe or do you just think other people believe this?

In this world of suffering and death, we're better off gathering the beautiful flowers and ignoring the briars and thorns.
I think it's a symptom of something deeper. Are not symbols of death more commonly associated with the dark side? I've studied into the occult world to see just how these "confederacies" spoken of in Scripture that end up running the show fit in. They are preoccupied with such things, be it the Bohemian Grove, political societies, the entertianment and academic world...not saying you're an occultist, of course.

Or, it could be an indication that you lean toward sensationalism. At any rate, it's still really WEIRD to depict the new birth as a skeleton, which all recognize represents death, like Jupiter and the skull with crossed bones.

Many Christians think they can disconnect themselves from Jesus' Vine, go down the street to Satan's house, and graft themselves into his Holly tree for a while.

IOW, although they know God is not accepting of it, they think salvation grants them a license to indulge a little sinful pleasure once in a while because doing will not result in forfeiture of it.

why is Galatians 5:13 in the Bible?

what kind of idiot madness possessed Paul to tell people not to use their freedom as an occasion to sin?
wow, what kind of crazy gospel is he preaching where a person would actually have a grace so great that he in fact could literally abuse it as license?

and many believe no one will walk in righteousness without the threat of hell over their every step. that out of terror & fear of punishment they will self-impose behavior modification, and that will commend them to God.

a lot of people think that kind of constant anxious nightmare is "salvation"

i think you should spend less time meditating on things you hate and reasons to hate them, and more time meditating on Colossians 3:3 and John 11:25-26 -- you'd probably get a clearer understand of why we are so secure in Him

i happen to have this avatar because i believe the scripture when i read it and i am thankful.

and many believe no one will walk in righteousness without the threat of hell over their every step. that out of terror & fear of punishment they will self-impose behavior modification, and that will commend them to God.

a lot of people think that kind of constant anxious nightmare is "salvation"

Again, Jesus' blood does not cover deliberate, known sin from which we refuse to repent.

A Biden Socialized Medicine enforcement agent points a nail gun at the child of a morbidly obese pinnhead Christian who constantly eats to the glory of Satan (instead of God) and says, "Just one more doughnut and I'll nail her pretty little head to the wall..."

...do you think the pinnhead will continue making excuses for his doughnut addiction, or would he "miraculously" find the motivation to go to the gym every time he drives past a Krispy Kreme?

So, then, if we love Jesus as the pinnhead Christian loves that little girl, why do we keep making excuses for driving fresh nails (Hebrews 6:4-6 KJV) into the hands and feet of Jesus?

People don’t become more righteous out of fear. I agree with you that is an anxious nightmare.

One inspired writer wrote if Jesus hanging on the Cross is not enough to create within us a humble spirit that gives us a desire to become like Him, all the fires of hell won't succeed in compelling us to turn from sin.

1 John 3:6

There is a big difference between humility and fear. You can be afraid and still be prideful.

Amen, how can anyone who loves Jesus even think about indulging iniquity...or if they do, how can they not hate themselves afterward and not wet their pillow with their tears apologizing to God and begging Him for power to resist the next time Satan comes around with the same temptation?

1 John 3:6. Please note that the tense of the verb “sin” indicates continual, linear action (or iterative action).