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So you are saying wilful sin = unbelief which is not covered by the cross.

It is obvious you refuse to see, and prefer to gaze at sin and its power rather than the complete and sufficient sacrifice.

It seems like the same problem the Hebrews were having?
For the born again believer salvation is eternal this IS the gospel and there is no other.


Hebrews 10 11-14
[SUP]11 [/SUP]And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. [SUP]12 [/SUP]But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, [SUP]13 [/SUP]from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. [SUP]14[/SUP]For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.



AMEN.....eternal, forever and everlasting speak for themselves......none of them equate to temporary and or conditional.....Believe and acknowledge Jesus by faith = eternal, everlasting life, justification, sanctification and sealed in Christ.......forever sanctified in Christ....and God's mercy endures forever....and his grace out bounds our sin when we sin.....end of story
 
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I have told you before that I don't fall for the attempted spiritual manipulation of saying that "I'm only giving you the word of God. Why don't you believe the word of God. Do you love Jesus."

This is all"code" for "If you don't observe the Sabbath day as in the Old Testament - you don't believe the word of God like I do nor do you love Jesus because Jesus said - if you love Me you will keep my commandments". I don't fall for religious attempts at spiritual manipulation like that but the saints have been warned to stay away from this religious nonsense and walk free in Christ and worship Him every day "in the spirit". For those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. Jesus said He is the truth. God bless you too and I pray that your eyes be opened by the Father to see Christ Himself for what He has done for us and that He alone is our righteousness and our life and the Truth.
Grace777:rolleyes:

You are a funny one indeed with all your accusations. The Words of God are my eyes and my ears, I see not and hear not except through His eyes and His ears. I judge not because His Word judges. By their fruits you shall know them. He that saith I know Him and keeps not His commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him (1 John 2:4)

Act 17:30
In times of this ignorance God winks at; but now commands all men every where to repent:

Heb 10:26-27
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

Rev 14:12,
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Ok time for me to really sleep. Goodnight all
 
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AMEN.....eternal, forever and everlasting speak for themselves......none of them equate to temporary and or conditional.....Believe and acknowledge Jesus by faith = eternal, everlasting life, justification, sanctification and sealed in Christ.......forever sanctified in Christ....and God's mercy endures forever....and his grace out bounds our sin when we sin.....end of story

Amen...and if we would spend our time preaching and teaching Christ Himself and all that He has already done - then we will have the faith and the grace to walk free of being deceived by the flesh to do "it's" desires. Walking by the spirit is the only way to do this.

Walking by the spirit is walking by who we are in Christ - joined as one spirit with the Lord forever. Sealed by the Holy Spirit.

All this talk of works and losing salvation is just a product of the enemy to get us side-tracked from learning of Christ and seeing Him for what He has already done for us and getting us to rely on our own selves and righteousness. It is a ploy of the enemy.

We need to be boldly proclaiming Christ and Him crucified and us dying with Him on the cross and being raised to newness of life because we are one spirit with Him.

Feed Christians the proper nutrients of the love and grace of God in Christ so that they will be built on the foundation of Christ alone - then the warning scriptures will have their proper place.

Without the foundation in Christ's work alone for life and living - the warning scriptures can be used to beat the sheep and bring fear and dis-trust in our Father and Lord and distort our perception of their true nature and the love and grace that is abundantly supplied towards us who believe.
 

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Grace777:rolleyes:

You are a funny one indeed with all your accusations. Why is it when someone presents the Word of God, instead of talking scripture people like to turn on the messenger?:(
Is this the same goobledegook conspiracy theory nonsense that is on your website - the one that you are advertising?
The one that is just a mirror for Ellen Whites foetid ramblings...

You see, what a lot of folk do not understand is that it is not just the Word of God that you are referring to but it is Ellen White's writings that the SDA church hold to be co-authoritative with the Bible.
All your doctrine is just reflecting SDA beliefs AKA Ellen White's writings...
 
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Amen...and if we would spend our time preaching and teaching Christ Himself and all that He has already done - then we will have the faith and the grace to walk free of being deceived by the flesh to do "it's" desires. Walking by the spirit is the only way to do this.

Walking by the spirit is walking by who we are in Christ - joined as one spirit with the Lord forever. Sealed by the Holy Spirit.

All this talk of works and losing salvation is just a product of the enemy to get us side-tracked from learning of Christ and seeing Him for what He has already done for us and getting us to rely on our own selves and righteousness. It is a ploy of the enemy.

We need to be boldly proclaiming Christ and Him crucified and us dying with Him on the cross and being raised to newness of life because we are one spirit with Him.

Feed Christians the proper nutrients of the love and grace of God in Christ so that they will be built on the foundation of Christ alone - then the warning scriptures will have their proper place.

Without the foundation in Christ's work alone for life and living - the warning scriptures can be used to beat the sheep and bring fear and dis-trust in our Father and Lord and distort our perception of their true nature and the love and grace that is abundantly supplied towards us who believe.
AMEN.....all glory goes to God dia JESUS.......it is all the work of GOD.....only JESUS can save eternally....when we start interjecting self and our works, abilities etc....we devalue the work and faith of Christ......we taint what he has done and in so doing make his work and sacrifice void.......!
 
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GRACE777, this was so good I wanted to copy and past over to here.......thanks for your stance for the truth......love the Greek verb tense......settles all the lies of the loss of salvation and eternal aspect of the sealing and salvation given in Christ freely to all who genuinely believe....

True biblical belief is of the heart - not in the head or mind. God looks on the heart - man look on the outward appearance.

Getting "saved" is simple but it is not cheap - It cost our Lord His life and Blood to "obtain eternal redemption" for us. Hebrews 9:12

Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

[SUP]10 [/SUP] for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

The process is simple too.

1) we hear the message of Christ - the gospel of our salvation in Him

2) we believe the message from our hearts

3) we were sealed with the Holy Spirit

( Jesus said in John 14:16 that the Holy Spirit will be with us and in us forever - now was Jesus lying or is he like a "bait and switch" car salesman that has "fine print" which He doesn't talk about )

Ephesians 1:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, = 1)

the gospel of your salvationhaving also believed, = 2)

you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, = 3)


you were sealed =
aorist indicative tense / passive voice = a one time event in the past.

Passive voice = the sealing was not done by us but by an outside force - the Holy Spirit Himself.
 
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Is this the same goobledegook conspiracy theory nonsense that is on your website - the one that you are advertising?
The one that is just a mirror for Ellen Whites foetid ramblings...

You see, what a lot of folk do not understand is that it is not just the Word of God that you are referring to but it is Ellen White's writings that the SDA church hold to be co-authoritative with the Bible.
All your doctrine is just reflecting SDA beliefs AKA Ellen White's writings...
AMEN.....you know I spent 5 months down under and had numerous chats with Aussies.....and very few had any understanding of the bible.....I was actually in Westfield in Penrith, and had a reporter from the Penrith Press? approach me and grill me on my view of gay marriage.....WHAT are the ODDS of that.....by the time I got done she was hightailing it out of the mall headed for the coast.......HAHA I love Stralia and Aussies.....I hate to see anyone BOUND down under a syste that they cannot keep.....tragic...!
 
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AMEN.....you know I spent 5 months down under and had numerous chats with Aussies.....and very few had any understanding of the bible.....I was actually in Westfield in Penrith, and had a reporter from the Penrith Press? approach me and grill me on my view of gay marriage.....WHAT are the ODDS of that.....by the time I got done she was hightailing it out of the mall headed for the coast.......HAHA I love Stralia and Aussies.....I hate to see anyone BOUND down under a syste that they cannot keep.....tragic...!
its a sad state in australia unfortunately many samoans who are born there are also brainwashed into that secularism. did u serve in da military or is that just a photo of someone else? if u did God bless u and thanks for da service many usos also served in da U.S military from american samoa.
im still trying to get a logo to work but im having some technical difficulties with da website.
 
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its a sad state in australia unfortunately many samoans who are born there are also brainwashed into that secularism. did u serve in da military or is that just a photo of someone else? if u did God bless u and thanks for da service many usos also served in da U.S military from american samoa.
im still trying to get a logo to work but im having some technical difficulties with da website.
Yeah that is me....My graduation pic from the Marine Corp November 27, 1985......yeah I love Stralia.....and the people...consider it my second home......
 
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Is this the same goobledegook conspiracy theory nonsense that is on your website - the one that you are advertising?
The one that is just a mirror for Ellen Whites foetid ramblings...

You see, what a lot of folk do not understand is that it is not just the Word of God that you are referring to but it is Ellen White's writings that the SDA church hold to be co-authoritative with the Bible.
All your doctrine is just reflecting SDA beliefs AKA Ellen White's writings...
This is an interesting concept GraceNpeace...

because all your references to the Word of God also harken to writings and other person's ideas.
I see posts on these threads of this one and that one.
I don't even know who these people are, but apparently most here do.

LoveGodForever does NOT POST White's writings.
If I'm not mistaken, he posts directly from the bible.

So, I'd have to say that , Yes, when we do not agree with a scripture, we do not agree with God's word.
The disagreement is not with the person posting.
 
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I have told you before that I don't fall for the attempted spiritual manipulation of saying that "I'm only giving you the word of God. Why don't you believe the word of God. Do you love Jesus."

This is all "code" for "If you don't observe the Sabbath day as in the Old Testament - you don't believe the word of God like I do nor do you love Jesus because Jesus said - if you love Me you will keep my commandments".

I don't fall for religious attempts at spiritual manipulation like that but the saints have been warned to stay away from this religious nonsense and walk free in Christ and worship Him every day "in the spirit". For those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth. Jesus said He is the truth.

God bless you too and I pray that your eyes be opened by the Father to see Christ Himself for what He has done for us and that He alone is our righteousness and our life and the Truth.
My, when you find a chink in the armor of your opponent, you come on strong, don't you?

I guess this proves beyond the shadow of a doubt you're not as mild-mannered man you portray yourself as.
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This is an interesting concept GraceNpeace...

because all your references to the Word of God also harken to writings and other person's ideas.
I see posts on these threads of this one and that one.
I don't even know who these people are, but apparently most here do.

LoveGodForever does NOT POST White's writings.
If I'm not mistaken, he posts directly from the bible.

So, I'd have to say that , Yes, when we do not agree with a scripture, we do not agree with God's word.
The disagreement is not with the person posting.
Go to his website and you will see what motivates his push for the law keeping.....just saying
 
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Go to his website and you will see what motivates his push for the law keeping.....just saying
that website is crazy what does sabbath have to do with buying and selling? i know some adventists in da real world do they all believe this lie or this just one off?
 
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that website is crazy what does sabbath have to do with buying and selling? i know some adventists in da real world do they all believe this lie or this just one off?
Not real positive as I have only dealt with a few....they all have had a works flavored salvation of some sort and pushed the Sabbath.....
 
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Is this the same goobledegook conspiracy theory nonsense that is on your website - the one that you are advertising?
The one that is just a mirror for Ellen Whites foetid ramblings...

You see, what a lot of folk do not understand is that it is not just the Word of God that you are referring to but it is Ellen White's writings that the SDA church hold to be co-authoritative with the Bible.
All your doctrine is just reflecting SDA beliefs AKA Ellen White's writings...
What website is that?

I'd like to see it myself.
 
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Romans 15:15 (NASB)
[SUP]15[/SUP] But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

Ephesians 6:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] and pray on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,