Not By Works
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Amen!! You CANNOT balance the two, same as Law and Grace, Old Covenant and New Covenant. Faith and Works, you cannot successfully live in both the Old and the New simultaneously.
Its not a scale, try some law, when I fail, slide over to Grace for a bit have some Grace to patch it up, do it again and again and again, fail over and over and over!!! (Which you will unless you are in super denial)
That is a rejection of both Law and Grace.
Its not a scale, try some law, when I fail, slide over to Grace for a bit have some Grace to patch it up, do it again and again and again, fail over and over and over!!! (Which you will unless you are in super denial)
That is a rejection of both Law and Grace.
Now I like that you repent of repenting, lol, ironic.
Or you repent of faith. Now unbelief in their eyes is the unforgivable sin,
yet for a once or many times believer it is ok.
Farce is what I would call it, but then we are sooooooooo evil what do
we know. It is like saying free climbing is safe, except you do die after the first fall.
Someone confessed the first time they heard an apostate preacher they were shocked.
It soon wore off after they also apostated. Odd that.
My question is, do they have a way back? Well to date, no. I mean they cannot even admit
verses can be read two ways. If you can see both you know you have a choice, ironic
that only one side seem able to see this, lol
Or you repent of faith. Now unbelief in their eyes is the unforgivable sin,
yet for a once or many times believer it is ok.
Farce is what I would call it, but then we are sooooooooo evil what do
we know. It is like saying free climbing is safe, except you do die after the first fall.
Someone confessed the first time they heard an apostate preacher they were shocked.
It soon wore off after they also apostated. Odd that.
My question is, do they have a way back? Well to date, no. I mean they cannot even admit
verses can be read two ways. If you can see both you know you have a choice, ironic
that only one side seem able to see this, lol
And repentance is granted from God. Acts 5:31 ; Acts 11:18 ; 2 Tim. 2:25
True repentance is changing the way we think concerning God's way of salvation and to not to trust in our own self-righteousness but in the message of Christ which is the gospel message that all sins are forgiven.
We are trusting in Christ alone for salvation and life and not in our own way. There are "fruits" of repentance but they come after we have already repented to trust in Christ's work alone.
Get this backwards and we create a D.I.Y self-righteousness/holiness religion which is a works-based religion.
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Ok ok let's set aside a commitment not to sin.
What did Jesus say about having to go back to the Father so that the Holy Spirit must come to convict the world of its sin.
What was the sin Jesus was referring to.
Then what did Jesus say in the gospels about those who repent of the sin that the Holy Spirit will convict them off?
What did Jesus say about having to go back to the Father so that the Holy Spirit must come to convict the world of its sin.
What was the sin Jesus was referring to.
Then what did Jesus say in the gospels about those who repent of the sin that the Holy Spirit will convict them off?
In order to receive the word into your heart, your heart had to have been prepared for this. Conviction of Sin. The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin (you would agree).
Now, you no longer have any conviction of sin, feel that its no longer a "biggie". And you are free to engage in sin. You have had a change of mind concerning this. What then?
Now, you no longer have any conviction of sin, feel that its no longer a "biggie". And you are free to engage in sin. You have had a change of mind concerning this. What then?