Well he must be telling you something different then he is telling me..
I rest my case. Nothing more needs to be said, You to are depending on yourself to save yourself. And not God to save you. Thanks for proving what I have been saying is correct.
No, There is only scripture taken out of context.
Here is what is wrong
1. Your saying an eternal, All knowing God. is going to give a gift to someone, the gift he calls eternal, secure in HIS WORK. Knowing that person would one day reject God.
2. Your assuming those who claim to be saved, then reject (thus becoming against Christ) were saved in the first place. John destroys this argument,
"They departed because they were NOT OF US, If they WERE OF US, THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE DEPARTED".
You know the context of this passage right?
[SUP]15 [/SUP]Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. [SUP]17 [/SUP]And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the[SUP][c][/SUP] Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. [SUP]19 [/SUP]They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
[SUP]20 [/SUP]But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things
Who are they who departed? Those who loved the world.. The very people who claim to speak against. the sinners..It is these who will at one time claim to be a part of us, then depart and as you say "reject God"
They never lost salvation. THEY NEVER HAD IT!
Oh so now you do not believe eternal damnation is eternal either huh??
Hitler. You ever heard of a Guy names saul? He was a famous NT murderer of Christians.. He was exactly like hitler. He wanted all Christians dead.. You remember him? He later became Paul and wrote half the NT. Everyone is guilty, and everyone is deserving. There are NO RIGHT people on earth. Even Hitler had a chance to repent (if he chose) trying to compair yourself with him is like the pharisees trying to compair themselves with evil sinners. Because they did what they could to "obey Gods laws"
And yuo wonder why people claim you sound like them. you use the same arguments!
No, there is not. James said if you break the least of the law, your guilty of the WHOLE LAW. In God eyes, YOU BOTH ARE JUST AS GUILTY!
Take yourself away from phariseeism, and look at your life in the eyes of God. Stop compairing yourself to others and fool yourself into thinking your more rightious.
And why should I not? Do you think it matters what hitler did? All sin is evil in Gods sight. There are not less evil sins. You think you are more right because your did not try do what Hitler did? Your decieving yourself.
and PS. If you think you will not burn as much as anyone in Hell. your more dangerous then John is,, Hell is eternal. The fire will never be quenched, there will be weeping and nashing of teeth. Don;t give people hope thinking they may one day get out of hell because they were good. This is a lie.
Coming from you this does not mean much, You both are decieving yourselves by thinking your not trying to earn salvation. When you are. Anyone who does not believe in eternal security based on the work of God and the promises of God alone, are trying to earn it. You can deny it until your blue in the face. It does not make it true!