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To: BRL

he’s backing “faux Christians” who think one can die a PRACTISING, un-repentent homosexual and go to heaven into an untenable position


25 posted on 07/11/2012 6:11:24 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

Here is the danger. Christ loves us and desires everyone to be saved. It is the gift of God, lest anyone should boast in it.

There are those who believe they are saved but continue in sin so that grace can abound. It’s unlikely those people are saved because the arrogance of their hearts prevents them from recognizing their sin as sin and asking for forgiveness.

On the other hand, there are those who deny faith by making salvation a matter of practicing laws rather than desiring the grace of Christ. It’s unlikely these people are saved because they fail to grasp that salvation is not a 12-step plan but an intimate, personal conversion of the heart by the Holy Spirit.

We’re saved by faith in Christ, not works and yet by your fruit are you known so the Christian life is one of faith despite our sin but also good works as the by-product of that faith. If you’re not producing the fruit of the Spirit, you’re missing out on what Christ wants of you and you should re-examine yourself and ask again for forgiveness.

Christ will judge the one who continues in their own unrepentant sin and will judge the one who believes they have no sin in them equally and what He does with their souls, that is His to decide. But the only true way to know you are saved is to humbly recognize and confess your sin before God, repent so as to extract the sin from our lives and bear fruit as evidence of God’s work. That’s an intimate, personal relationship that is available to everyone regardless of denomination but is difficult without an understanding of what God wants and a desire to do His will.


26 posted on 07/11/2012 7:07:33 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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