Ferris Bueller
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Plack?plack
Oh, 'plaque'......I get it now.
Thank God salvation is not by spelling either. Or else you and me would be waltzing arm in arm right into hell, lol. Thank God for spell check.
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Plack?plack
According to the law of Moses. Concerning the man in the church at Corinth who was sleeping with his step mother.....OT mans sin was defined according TO "OT LAWS".
The issue is, Men today repeatedly claim, "THEY SIN", according to WHAT?
A LAW? What LAW?
Say what?Scripture never teaches Converted men to Run to God, claim you SINNED against another man, and want God to forgive you...
Well then, answer this, do you believe a person can refuse to believe in Christ after he is saved?
If you say no, then you have taken the belief of Calvinism, irresistible grace!
If you say yes, then do you think that the faith he once had that saved him, which he no longer has, will continue to save him?
I think you're talking about the difference between sacrifice and obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Obedience is always more important than the sacrifice of your service in whatever gift you have. The sacrifice of our service will never be more important than the obedience of living according to the fruit of the Spirit.That we are rewarded when we serve others. Not when we stop sin,
that’s why the law has been set aside. Obedience is you looking at self, we seek the things of the spirit (serving others) and in doing so, by Practice do not fulfill the list of the flesh (sin)
sadly some babes think it is just stoping sin, so as a change creature they stop many sins, yet they are not out serving others. We call them couch potato christians,
The faith that he once had saved him from sin, it never saved him from hell (because that is according to predestination); when it ceases to save him from sin it brings about the reality that he is not saved from hell. In a sense he is no longer saved from hell because there is a sense in which he was saved from hell because he was saved from sin. But in another sense he was never saved from hell because God knew that his faith wouldn't last and he would fall away from faith. But if he had faith, then he was saved by grace through that faith; not necessarily from hell but definitely from sin.
I can say if I am saved from sin that I am saved from hell also. But if I cease to be saved from sin then I am no longer saved from hell; and yet from God's perspective in eternity I was never saved from hell if I am only saved from sin for a season.
Isn't that, basically, what I was saying?You can state it any way you like, but if you lose faith in Christ along the way, and hold to that, you ain't gonna make it, period!
Isn't that, basically, what I was saying?
If by "sinner saved by grace" you mean that you are someone who has the element of sin indwelling you (1 John 1:8); but in whom it has been rendered dead (Romans 6:6, Galatians 5:24, Romans 7:8) so that it no longer has any say over your behaviour (Romans 6:14), then I am in agreement with you.I don't know jbf! I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, in fact, you and many others here are much more intelligent than myself.
I'm just a sinner saved by grace, forever in debt to my Saviour, all I know is what He has taught me, and allowed me to know.
If that is what you have said, I agree.
If by "sinner saved by grace" you mean that you are someone who has the element of sin indwelling you (1 John 1:8); but in whom it has been rendered dead (Romans 6:6, Galatians 5:24, Romans 7:8) so that it no longer has any say over your behaviour (Romans 6:14), then I am in agreement with you.
But if you are teaching the false doctrine and heresy of the inevitability of sin, or, the idea that we cannot help but sin in the present and the future, then I disagree wholeheartedly.
Whoa, there, Ricochet! Our thoughts are the very first place temptation shows up. Being tempted is not sinning. Go easy on yourself and others!