Posted on 07/07/2018 8:00:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Our most rapid church growth was in the days when “hellfire and brimstone” were being preached.
And there’s no call for holy righteous living.
That is also called legalism.
So people to not confess and repent of their sin but continue in it blissfully ignorant that they are not living a life pleasing to God and yet totally convinced that He’s happy with them just as they are and don’t care if they sin. (Professed believers have said that to me about God not caring if they sin.)
raiderboy is pot stirring as usual.
Check out his posting history.
It’s SOP.
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Saving faith results in a life that shows it, a life lived in increasing holiness and Christlikeness.
If that's not there, thre's plenty of reason to suspect that the profession is lip service only.
Problem we have today is few wants to admit they are sinful in need of overcoming their sinfulness. It’s the “I’m OK, your OK” mentality.
We are approaching the very last days.
“Two chapters earlier in John...3:18...he who does not believe is already condemned.”
Yes, I agree with you. I was pointing out to the other person that Jesus did speak of judgment.
Thanks for sharing that article. As someone who has spent time talking with many peers from all over.... I can attest that this is a real issue. Unfortunately many more people seem to be set on deceiving and being deceived.... so that they can practice their desired sin.
I’m sorry, but I find what you’re saying to be absurd.
You’re basically saying sin doesn’t matter at all. You can do anything...rape, kill, steal, torture, never repent of any of it, like the BTK killer who tortured all this girls to death and was never remorseful, and if you believe Jesus died for your sins (which demons believe, also...and tremble) then you’re going straight to Heaven.
Why did Paul say Heaven is not for murderers, homosexuals, drunkards, etc., if nothing you do matters?
And why did God take Annanias and Saphira’s life when they they lied about money they were holding back.
There’s something amiss with your theology.
No . That is exactly what I am saying or Christ died for nothing. How could he have atoned for our sins but not atoned for our sins? Give us a list of sins that are atoned for and then a list of nonatoned sins. Start with “1.” and go numerically.
Are we not taught to accept the whole counsel of God? But you’re going to accept one Scripture as the total truth of God? What of the rest of Scripture, such as those that have been quoted to you here, by other FReepers?
You must be born again. John 3:16 tells you how to do that. But the majority of the REST of the New Testament, tells us how to live, AFTER we have received Jesus. Paul speaks of baby Christians, and differentiates between them and mature Christians, in how they receive the meat of the Word, not just the milk of the Word that a new Christian knows.
You are absolutely not “ born sgain”. That is another horrible, and I intentional ,mistranslation in the “king James”. 1600 years after the resurrection. The original true words of God” we’re “ born from above”. Look it up. When you believe in Jesus as the Son of God , you are born from above.— spiritually. Automatically. We are badly misled from salvation on purpose
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