Posted on 01/22/2014 9:30:46 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
This is why Catholics recrucify Christ when they take the Mass. Instead of washing to be cleansed, they seek to receive salvation repeatedly.
We are regenerated once, OSAS, and bathed clean at that time. If we sin again, we don’t need to be regenerated, but simply cleansed for those particular sins to continue the spiritual walk.
Penance doesn’t provide that, nor do human good works, only faith alone in Christ alone and confession of those sins so He forgives them immediately and we are returned to our spiritual walk.
But you are not addressing the problems with your theology.
No, the Mass is not a re- anything.
Faith and works are not inseparable.
You’re not facing the obvious errors and problems of OSAS theology.
Are you forgiven for your future sins now? All your future sins, no matter what? Is this what OSAS means?
but as it is future, we do not have to sin.
You don't have to, but you will, yes? And then…? What are you presuming in regards to your future sin?
It is absurd to forgive future sin.
It is absurd to presume your future sins are forgiven now, not knowing what they are or whether you will confess or repent of them. Is this what you are doing in OSAS?
That was good. Thanks.
In God's economy, there is no future sin. He is outside time.
OTOH, when Jesus died for our sins, all OUR sins were future sins.
Catholicism teaches that mass is participation in the sacrifice of Christ.
Yeah, that's re-crucifying Him. He already died once and was raised again and HE said *It is finished*.
THe RCC clearly doesn't think so.
As Christ died on the cross, when we are in Christ, God reckons us to have died to sin as well.
We are once saved always saved because the power of sin in us is broken and we are free from the penalty of sin because our sin was judged and paid for on the cross, when it was ALL future sin.
The sin we commit is committed in the flesh and when the body of flesh dies, sin is gone as well. The new creature we are in Christ, the spirit man, is free of sin and capable of going to heaven to be in the presence of God and it does not take sin with it because the sin is in the flesh, which is dead.
Yes, we need to confess sin to restore the right fellowship with God but sin does not damn us anymore because of the reasons mentioned above.
Future sin was addressed at the Cross.
The Cross was not Forgiveness.
The Cross was Judgment, Judgment, Judgment.
2 entirely separate issues.
At the moment of saving faith, God regenerates the human spirit. It doesn’t cease to exist if we sin after salvation.
If we sin after salvation, then we grieve the Holy Spirit and are no longer in fellowship with Him. He still indwells us. That is His decision by His Plan. We remain sealed, even if out of fellowship. We just don’t advance nor perform works by His Standards to receive some rewards at the bema seat.
Forgiveness for post salvation sin occurs when we repent and confess those sins back to God through faith in Christ.
Catholic theology in Christ was fabulous up until about Gregory when it drifted away from Christ and substituted itself as an institution in place of Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:1-2 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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