I agree. justbyfaith is an enthusiast but is unbelievably theologically lost. I will pray for him.
Says a man who denies Christ's Deity as a matter of course.
Your prayers will do nothing for me because you are not in Christ...the Bible teaches that if you continue to deny the Deity of Christ to your dying breath, you will die in your sins (John 8:24)...and that means that you cannot possibly be in the Lord so that your prayers for anyone would ever avail.
Because you regard iniquity in your heart (your unbelief as concerning Christ's Deity), the Lord will not hear you (Psalms 66:18).
Very presumptuous of you to suggest I don't know one thing about our Father.
For the sake of peace I will leave you to your belief. I had a simple question that is worth discussing with those who are willing and able to do so.
You are not discussing or debating anything. Instead you choose to be condescending and arrogant.
I will just agree to disagree with your belief.
Have a blessed day.
No, I did not suggest that about you.
I was actually talking to
@BreadOfLife in the post that you are responding to here.
I'm not sure how you mistook that; the quote that I was responding to was clearly a quote that
@BreadOfLife had written.
I'm asking a certain question, Why is it that saved people continue to have faith?
The person who continues in their confidence to the end . . . why do they do that? What makes it so that a person is faithful to the end? Believes to the end? Endures to the end? Why do God's children do that?
Those who have a nominal, lukewarm, or shallow faith (or mere mental assent to the tenets of the gospel) can fall away (Luke 8:12-13) or be cut off (Romans 11:20-22).
But those who have a heart faith that is unto righteousness (Romans 10:10) and enduring to the end (Matthew 10:22, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14) are sealed by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14, Ephesians 4:30, 2 Corinthians 1:22, 2 Corinthians 5:5) and are instilled with an everlasting faith; even unto everlasting life (John 6:47)...which is life that can never come to an end...otherwise it would have been defined as temporal.
I think many who are fixated on eradicating sins on the belief that they must in order to remain saved have shallow ideas about what sin really is. They focus on their behaviors and thoughts without even realizing the mindset itself is of the flesh.
Nevertheless that mindset is the default of the flesh; and the law was given to show those who are of that mindset that they are sinners in need of a Saviour.
Those who have had all of their sins cleansed by the blood of Christ (1 John 1:7) tend not to look inward; but those who do look inward will find that there is indwelling sin.
I think that a key to overcoming sin is to look to Christ rather than inward. However, when we confess our sins...when we walk in the light as He is in the light....this will result in His cleansing us from all sin and unrighteousness (1 John 1:7, 1 John 1:9)...so there is a benefit to looking inward as He shines His light on us and reveals the cobwebs of sin in the nooks and crannies of our life.
But there also comes a point where a man is completely cleansed and at that point there is no more looking inward, except the Holy Spirit shines His light on something new that has just come in from the outside that needs to be confessed so that it might be cleansed from the system.
