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To: metmom
explain to me how He’s going to or supposed to bless a nation that continues to legalize the slaughter of the pre born and is caving to the rampant immorality and demands if the homosexual movement

Grace, which Peter says is hard to understand (2 Peter 3:15-16).

So, I repeat. God exhausted ALL his wrath, punishment, and condemnation for all the sins of every one that has ever and will ever live on the body of his Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross (1 John 2:2) and in doing so, God has righteously reconciled the world to himself (2 Cor 5:19).

God fully and completely judged America’s sins 2000 years ago on the cross of Christ and would be committing unrighteous double jeopardy if he were to judge the same sins again now.

57 posted on 06/16/2018 1:16:05 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim 0216

“God exhausted ALL his wrath, punishment, and condemnation for all the sins of every one that has ever and will ever live on the body of his Son, Jesus Christ, on the cross (1 John 2:2) and in doing so, God has righteously reconciled the world to himself (2 Cor 5:19).”

False teaching. You seem to have forgotten about the “repent” part!

2 Cor 5:19 is not teaching universal salvation with no repentance required. It is preceded by 17 and followed by verse 20:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.”

Nothing universal about it.

1 John 2.2 is followed by 2.3-4:

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commands. 4 The one who says, “I have come to know him,” and yet doesn’t keep his commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Again, nothing universal about salvation. Acts 13: “Paul and Barnabas boldly replied, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first. Since you reject it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we are turning to the Gentiles.”


66 posted on 06/16/2018 1:49:21 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Jim 0216

And we are STILL exhorted to live holy lives and to not live in sin.

Just because God expended His wrath on Jesus at Calvary, does not mean He is going to over look sin.

Church discipline is a part of church life in the NT.

A nation that continues in immorality will not be blessed by God even if individual believers are.


81 posted on 06/16/2018 4:24:30 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Jim 0216

I take it, then, that you do not believe in the great tribulation either, eh?


132 posted on 06/18/2018 1:38:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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