Posted on 05/17/2016 11:34:00 AM PDT by amessenger4god
I agree with both James and Paul.
Our salvation is by grace thru faith alone. Through that faith, we will begin to have a heart longing for God/Christ and in turn produce those “works” that help the Kingdom.
>>Wait, I thought it was made abundantly clear to us earlier this year that if you didn’t vote for Ted Cruz, then you weren’t really saved?
I believe the legalism used there wasn’t that voting for Cruz would save you. It was just that not voting for Cruz is proof that you are not saved.
Really outstanding!
Thanks for posting!
Moving right along....
Well put. That's certainly how I understand it. And, at the same time, for a professing "believer" to live a life that fails to exhibit any such "works" reasonably gives rise to the question whether said "believer" does indeed now possess that "heart longing for God/Christ."
That is how I understand "faith without works is dead": i.e., absent any evident "works" (any "fruit," as it were), it may be the case -- may be; God knows -- that, in truth, saving faith has always been lacking.
Cf., e.g., 2 Corinthians 13:5.
I don't think either contention can find biblical support. It doesn't matter in crucial issues of Christianity.
Great post.
The “easy believism” cult has been the ruin of Christianity in the 20th Century and beyond.
Amen. It's deliberate, willful, deceitful omission to fail to continue with the passage.
Jesus thought so highly of judging that he insisted that we do it correctly, or not at all.
The length of the public ministry of Jesus was one of the earliest questions which arose in the study of the four gospels. In the second and third centuries it was not uncommon to find the answer in the passage from Isaiah (lxi.1, 2), which Jesus declared was fulfilled in himself. “The acceptable year of the Lord” was taken to indicate that the ministry covered little more than a year. The fact that the first three gospels mention but one Passover (that at the end), and but one journey to Jerusalem, seems at first to be favorable to this conclusion, and to make peculiarly significant the care taken by Luke to give the exact date for the opening of Jesus’ ministry (iii.1, 2). In fact, the second century Gnostics, relying apparently on Luke, assigned both the ministry and death of Jesus to the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, — an interpretation which may have given rise to the widely spread, early tradition, found, for example, in Tertullian (Ante-nicene Fathers, in.160), which placed the death of Jesus in A.D.29, during the consulship of L. Rubellius Geminus and C. Fufius Geminus.
Agreed.
It’s entirely understandable that the wicked would try to throw that verse in our teeth. It’s completely not understandable that Christians who apparently haven’t read the Bible agree with them and allow them to do so.
And just a little further down from verse 6 are verses 15 & 16:
Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Mat 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
How can we “beware false prophets” unless we judge them as false prophets because of their “fruit?” It’s utterly ridiculous that Christians let the wicked shut them up in this way.
LIES! you want lies?
1. Research why Easter was 1 month earlier than Passover this year.
2. The 7 holy Feasts, Passover /Unleavened Bread/ Pentecost are Jewish feasts...
3.Christ was not Crucified on Friday but Wednesday.
4. Christ was not born on in the Winter but in the Fall.
5. Jesus preached the Gospel but it’s not the Gospel the church’s teach
OK I gave enough to help anyone searching for the truth. These are all lies I promise. You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.
YES, inductive study reaps dividends!! Interesting in light of the tribulation and end times 1260 days the two witnesses.
BKMK
One where Satan reigns and all sorts of idolatry is rampant..."
Yes, that's the one.
I used to live across the street from Joel Osteen's church. I went once. Ever since then I listen closely to what the preacher says, and ask myself if it is Bible-based.
I am critical and cynical.
So when I bag on my church, It is mostly against the new attendees, not the message, which is about par nowadays.
It just doesn't sit well when I see girls dressing overtly sexy on Sundays.
+1. Well said.
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Prove that assertion ... using the scriptures, God’s Word. I’ll offer, first, that God illustrates His Truths with Numbers 21:4-9 and John 3:14-18, Jesus teaching. Then we see graphic illustration of the truth taught by Jesus with the Day of Pentecost preaching and the preaching in the house of Cornelius. The Holy Spirit of God is not like a yoyo.
BTW, when Abraham told the company to wait at the foot of the mountain while he and his beloved son went up for the sacrifice, Abraham told the entourage 'they' would come back down shortly and to wait for 'them'. Abraham sacrificed his beloved son in his faith that God would keep His promises through the son from Sarai, even as he went to sacrifice him on that mountain. It is ALL by faith, not the works.
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