- Would you call a Christian liar, lost?
- Would you call a Christian glutton, lost?
- Would you call a Christian alcoholic, lost?
- Would you call a Christian adulterer, lost?
- Would you call a Christian gay person, lost?
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It would much more useful to see what GOD says about the matter so let's look into His word:
1Co 6:7-11
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? BE NOT DECEIVED, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
And such
WERE some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1Co 6:12-15
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me
, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
2Co 5:14-17
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all
dead:
And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Rom 6:5-18
For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For
he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now
if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For
in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For
sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then?
shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that
to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
But God be thanked, that
ye WERE the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
Being then
made FREE FROM SIN, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Scripture also says that if we keep on willfully sinning after coming to a knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins. We better take sin seriously in the body of Christ, and teach others to, otherwise anyone can become as lost as they once were, or even worse. But the body of Christ has a role to play in helping and ministering to someone who is struggling with a sin, in praying for them and over them, encouraging them in the battle against it, and in such things as binding and casting out demons. After having the bath and becoming every whit clean, we are to wash one another's feet, and allow our feet to be washed.
BUT NOT IN TEACHING PEOPLE THAT IT IS OK TO KEEP ON SINNING AFTER COMING TO FAITH IN CHRIST! THAT IS NOT THE TRUTH! IT IS CONTRARY TO WHAT GOD'S WORD TEACHES! FORSAKING DEAD WORKS IS JUST FOUNDATIONAL TO THE FAITH, IT IS CHRISTIANITY 101, AND THEN WE ARE EVEN TO GROW FROM THERE. AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS WHOEVER BRINGS NOT THIS DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, RECEIVE HIM NOT! THIS IS GRAVELY SERIOUS - ETERNAL DESTINIES ARE AT STAKE! AND THE SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AND HEALTH OF THE CHURCH IN GENERAL!
Heb 6:1
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
2Jo 1:9
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
1Ti 1:6-11
From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
2Jo 1:10
IF THERE COME ANY UNTO YOU, AND BRING NOT THIS DOCTRINE, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
