Why would I do such a foolish thing as to sweat blood, when Jesus already did that on my behalf. I'm not a sucker for punishment, as you Arminian works based gospel believers are. You think your self mutilation will somehow save you, well God refutes that false doctrine.
Your degree of OSAS spiritual immaturity demands I repost but with such detail a child won't miss it:
1. Paul recites the "Honor Roll of the Saints" (Hebrews 11 KJV)
2. Paul then says their victorious example is proof we can overcome sin also (Hebrews 12:1 KJV)
3. Paul then points to the only way any of us will ever obtain such victory: faith in Jesus (Hebrews 12:2 KJV)
4. Paul then says consider all He endured before any of us say "we can't stop sinning" (Hebrews 12:3 KJV)
5. He finally says if you give up the fight against temptation before you suffer hematohidrosis, don't bother him with your "we can't stop siinning" bulldookey.
The greatest men of God in all of human history were never able to resist the temptation to sin, as you falsely claim to do. David was an adulterer and murderer, but God said he was a man after Gods own heart. So go back to the drawing board and scrap that false Arminian theology and repent of it, and start from scratch. I can give you countless examples to prove my point if you need them.
You falsely claim we can't overcome sin because you refuse to acknowledge the Biblical distinction between the Just Man and the Presumptuous Man - a Just Man falls down into the pit of sin and cries for deliverance but the Presumptuous OSAS License to Sin crowd deliberately climbs down in it, sits down comfortably among the filth, sways away the uplifting hand of Jesus, and shoves their OSAS License to Sin in His face.
I know you're offended by those of us who believe in Gods sovereignty, in election and predestination where He chose His elect before He created the world. You reject Gods Word at your own peril and make Him a liar.
No, I'm offended by the whining, sniveling, hypocritical cowardice of the OSAS crowd which claims to be "more than conquerors" while at the same time getting their butts handed to them whenever a battle with Satan's temptations erupts.
You reject Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
You reject the entire first four verses of Hebrews 12 which tell us:
1. we can overcome just as the cloud of witnesses overcame
2. we can do it by laying aside weights and sins
3. we can lay these aside by looking in faith to Jesus
4. before we whine to Paul "we can't stop sinning" we need to first have painted the ground red with sweat.
You reject Jesus and make yourself the author and finisher of your faith, at your own peril. What does author mean to you and what does finisher mean to you????......
Unlike the OSAS crowd which chooses willful ignorance, I acknowledge that we can't overcome sin unless we first "look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith" and "work out our own salvation with fear in trembling for it is God that worketh in you" to both give us the
desire to lay aside the weights and sins, but also to give us the
power to do it, as well.
God doesn't knock on the door and leave it up to you to let Him in. He's not like some pitiful door to door salesman knocking on doors and being rejected 99% of the time. I reject that Arminian doctrine in the strongest terms as it brings shame upon the name of God. It makes Him a loser, and I rebuke everyone who accuses the God of the bible as being a loser.
The Bible says God is a Gentleman Who never forces - He knocks on the heart and asks to enter and dwell.
The OSAS crowd prefers Jesus barge in, cuff a hand, drag em off while they cling to sin with the other hand.
The true God of the Bible saved His elect before He created the world, H won't lose a single one of His children as you falsely claim He will. See God is against everything you believe.
Then what's the point of all those warnings about "repent" and "if you hear His voice, harden not your heart" and "if ye be willing and obedent/if ye refuse and rebel" and "servants you are to whom you obey, whether sin unto death or obedience unto righteousness", etc?
I'm being transformed by Gods grace, as we speak, but thanks for your concern I'm familiar with the book of Acts. The book never claims that anyone attains sinless perfection in this life, so you need to go back to you Shepherd, Teacher, Minister or Pastor and ask them why they taught you a false gospel, which can't save anyone.
Such arrogance. You willfully sin after receiving knowledge of the truth, yet you think the Sacrifice remains? I suggest you memorize Hebrews 10:26 KJV.
We CAN be "perfect" as Job was "perfect" and as your Father in heaven is "perfect" - which means "perfect in our sphere as He is perfect in His sphere".
The kindergartener and the PhD can both obtain "perfect" scores on the test, while both spheres of educational ability are as far as the one can be from the other - RIGHT OR WRONG?
You don't even know about the various contexts of the word "death" are in the bible. You falsely apply it to mean "annihilation", but the truth is there's no such thing in the Bible. Death is never ever ever, ceasing to exist in the Bible, I would be very angry with your Shepherd for teaching you lies.
Those who sound like the devil are of their father the devil - those who sound like God are of the Father, too:
"Thou shalt not surely die".
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die"
Which are you?
God told Adam that He would die on the day that he ate of the tree, according to you he ceased to exist and didn't go onto live well over 900 years. Mankind died on that day, and those who suffer the second death will never get the chance to repent or be saved. The second death is a permanent state of separation from Gods grace.
Wrong. The
Second Death is just like the
First Death where the Breath returns to God, the Body to the dust, and the Soul ceases to exist until the one or the other of the two resurrections...but with one exception:
The Second Death is
permanent death,
eternal death,
everlasting death...
a death from which there will be no resurrection.
Those who are cast into hell are tormented in hell fire for all eternity, there is no annihilation, or ceasing to exist or escape. You need to start believing what God said and maybe find a faithful Shepherd to teach you, to lead you and watch over you.
There isn't a single verse in Scripture that says so.
The only "proof" texts you guys have are uninterpreted parables of the Rich Man/Lazarus or misinterpreted passages like "absent from body/present with Lord".
I've got TONS of verses that show the dead know nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, feel nothing, praise nothing, return to nothing, devise nothing, remember nothing, see nothing, etc., but you guys prefer a tiny handful of wrongly derived lies instead of a truckload of truth.
John 15:16
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
So much for your free choice heresy.
See, that's why you Calvinists are in for a huge surprise on Judgment Day - you read one verse which says "did not choose Me" and ignore all the other verses that say...
"choose ye this day whom ye will serve"
"therefore,
choose life"
"s
eek the Lord while He may be found"
"to them who by patient continuance in well doing
seek for glory, honor, and immortality".
If God didn't first choose to get our attention so that we'd look upon Him and see our lost condition, we'd never desire to choose Jesus for deliverance from it.
I suppose there's no point in citing verses of scripture if you don't believe what they are saying. What I see in your theology reminds me of the bible verse;
Proverbs 14"12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Those verses actually prove Conditional Salvation - any supposed ideas that they confirm Calvinism result only from misapplying or misinterpreting them.