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notuptome

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Absolute nonsense. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 says you're wrong. So does 1 John chapter 3. And Luke 13:3. And Luke 13:5. And Ezekiel chapter 18.
Why are you offended by God's grace? Do you know that whom God has forgiven He will not condemn? You impute to God those characteristics that are found only in sinful men.

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Why are you offended by God's grace? Do you know that whom God has forgiven He will not condemn? You impute to God those characteristics that are found only in sinful men.

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Roger
I am not offended by God's grace. I am offended by your lascivious grace.

This is God's grace:
Titus 2:11 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, :12 - Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness, and worldly lust. God's grace teaches us to live right in this world. Your grace is teaching us that we can live unrighteously. You are teaching false doctrine and a lascivious grace, not God's grace.
 
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Why are you offended by God's grace? Do you know that whom God has forgiven He will not condemn? You impute to God those characteristics that are found only in sinful men.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

Since it's impossible for God to lie, then Lk 13;3,5 1 Cor 6:9 are true. All the impenitent and adulterers are lost

1 Cor 5 say nothing about an impenitent adulterer maintaining his salvation but lost his salvation. Paul tells the church at Corinth they should have mourned for this lost individual and were to remove their fellowship from him. This removal of fellowship of the church shows that the individual was fellow-shipping with Satan and not Christ and His church. As Paul said in Rom 6:16 one serves either "sin unto death" or "obedience unto righteousness" and this man at Corinth had turned to serving sin unto death.
 
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What are you talking about eternally? It is so clear to everyone reading your posts that you are being willfully ignorant of the scriptures. James is absolutely %100 saying that you cannot be SAVED without WORKS! He specifically asked "what does it profit a man if he SAYS he has faith but has no WORKS? CAN FAITH SAVE HIM? The answer to the question is NO faith without works cannot SAVE anybody! Now if you deny that this is what James is saying, you are just flat out lying. Read the chapter. He makes the statement twice: FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD! And then if verse 24 he literally says, "You see how that BY WORKS A MAN IS JUSTIFIED AND NOT BY FAITH ONLY! If you can deny that James is saying you have to have works in order to be saved, you are intentionally closing your eyes.
Now who here is decieved my friend?

You claim everyone here can see that I am willfully ignorant.

yet you just PROVED what I said was true.

You said without works. that means zero works

You said faith but has NO works. which means no works.

this is exactly what I said. so why are you trying to twist what I said, and make yourself look like the one twisting (ie a hypocrite)

Zero works equals zero works.

\You can not use this to claim someone can have faith plus works at one time in their life, then because they have a time where thier is little or no work in their life they lost salvation. It does not fit what James said.

Would you like to try again?
 

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I agree with you here and therein is the real danger if one remains in that position...
Heb 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
Nigh unto cursing, or another rendering, close to being cursed...is one rejected from salvation? the kingdom? or fellowship, communion with God or union with God? This verse is very much in the air in what is meant by "close to being cursed" and "whose end is to be burned", this sounds like the one "who has fallen away" has removed him from receiving the blessing of God while yet he/she lives. God wants to bless His children, but He can't while they are run a muck, in which everything this person does isn't worth anything pertaining to His Kingdom. Their life is useless. It could be the work that is burned up, not the man.

1 Corinthians 3

14 If anyone’s work which he has built onit endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.


 
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your whole response is babble
Don't change the word...Heb 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
No your response is babble.

NIGH TO BEING CURSED. It does not say they are cursed.

the curse of the law is death, This person is nigh to being cursed but is not.

His work is rejected (no reward) but he is not.

A paralled passage is 1 cor 3:
[SUP]13 [/SUP]each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. [SUP]14 [/SUP]If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. [SUP]15 [/SUP]If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but YET HE HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED. YET AS THROUGH FIRE!

Wow do you people listen to yourselves. how can you write the stuff you do with a serious face? What scares me is you actually believe the stuff you say.
 
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[SUP]17 [/SUP]For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
[SUP]18 [/SUP]And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
[SUP]19 [/SUP]Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
more babble.

Jesus said faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains, if it can do that we are saved. He healed a mans child even though the main claimed he was struggling with faith, proving even that little faith can have God do miracles and if this, then save people..

We are saved by grace THROUGH FAITH.. How much faith? well if faith of a mustard seed can move a mountain, then it certainly can save you.. vs mere believe, which is no faith whatsoever.

Again, You god is not a god of Love, He kicks his children out of his family because they fall down and mess up.. I pray you do not do this to your kids.
 
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I am not offended by God's grace. I am offended by your lascivious grace.

dude, neither one of us are teaching lasciviousness. Get off your high horse and listen to what we are saying, The men you listen to have taught you wrong about us.

Your teaching legalism. That is the opposite of lasciviousness. but just as damning to the eternal souls as a lasciviousness believe only gospel..


his is God's grace:
Titus 2:11 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, :12 - Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness, and worldly lust. God's grace teaches us to live right in this world. Your grace is teaching us that we can live unrighteously. You are teaching false doctrine and a lascivious grace, not God's grace.
Yep it does.. Yet it also teaches us we still fail to live up to Gods standard.. If we did live up to Gods standard, we would stop needing grace. and could sustain ourselves. because we merit what we get.

Stop trying to earn what God offers you freely.
 
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Nigh unto cursing, or another rendering, close to being cursed...is one rejected from salvation? the kingdom? or fellowship, communion with God or union with God? This verse is very much in the air in what is meant by "close to being cursed" and "whose end is to be burned", this sounds like the one "who has fallen away" has removed him from receiving the blessing of God while yet he/she lives. God wants to bless His children, but He can't while they are run a muck, in which everything this person does isn't worth anything pertaining to His Kingdom. Their life is useless. It could be the work that is burned up, not the man.

1 Corinthians 3

14 If anyone’s work which he has built onit endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.


goes right along with context.

lets move on to perfection. not laying aside again the basics of God.. (staying stagnant, as babes)
 

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Nigh unto cursing, or another rendering, close to being cursed...is one rejected from salvation? the kingdom? or fellowship, communion with God or union with God? This verse is very much in the air in what is meant by "close to being cursed" and "whose end is to be burned", this sounds like the one "who has fallen away" has removed him from receiving the blessing of God while yet he/she lives. God wants to bless His children, but He can't while they are run a muck, in which everything this person does isn't worth anything pertaining to His Kingdom. Their life is useless. It could be the work that is burned up, not the man.

1 Corinthians 3

14 If anyone’s work which he has built onit endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.


What I'm trying to say is that there is not enough clarity here in this verse to build your doctrine of "you can lose your salvation" on, IMHO.
 
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Nigh unto cursing, or another rendering, close to being cursed...is one rejected from salvation? the kingdom? or fellowship, communion with God or union with God? This verse is very much in the air in what is meant by "close to being cursed" and "whose end is to be burned", this sounds like the one "who has fallen away" has removed him from receiving the blessing of God while yet he/she lives. God wants to bless His children, but He can't while they are run a muck, in which everything this person does isn't worth anything pertaining to His Kingdom. Their life is useless. It could be the work that is burned up, not the man.

1 Corinthians 3

14 If anyone’s work which he has built onit endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.



The context of 1 Cor 3 the "works" refer to converts. If a man's work/convert is burned/lost, then the one who made that convert will not be lost, as long as he remains faithful, but will have a sense of loss over his lost convert.
 
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The context of 1 Cor 3 the "works" refer to converts. If a man's work/convert is burned/lost, then the one who made that convert will not be lost, as long as he remains faithful, but will have a sense of loss over his lost convert.
what? this makes no sense.
 
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It makes perfect sense.

no it does not. How can it make sense, there is nothing in the passage about converting others.. God is the one who converts (sends the water) not us..

it is speaking about how WE use our blessings, and things God provides us, Not how we convert others..
 

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The context of 1 Cor 3 the "works" refer to converts. If a man's work/convert is burned/lost, then the one who made that convert will not be lost, as long as he remains faithful, but will have a sense of loss over his lost convert.
It is also clear that our work does not do the converting, our work either plants or waters and God brings the increase. So our reward isn't based on how many or how faithful a particular convert is. How could I be judged if a particular convert grows in Christ or not (unless I'm able to disciple them and refuse to do it)? Isn't the convert held responsible for his growth and genuineness?
 
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It is also clear that our work does not do the converting, our work either plants or waters and God brings the increase. So our reward isn't based on how many or how faithful a particular convert is. How could I be judged if a particular convert grows in Christ or not (unless I'm able to disciple them and refuse to do it)? Isn't the convert held responsible for his growth and genuineness?

In the context of 1 Cor 3, "work" refers to converts. The convert is responsible for his own faithfulness and if he becomes unfaithful he will burn yet the one who converted will still be saved if he remains faithful.
 
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Now who here is decieved my friend?

You claim everyone here can see that I am willfully ignorant.

yet you just PROVED what I said was true.

You said without works. that means zero works

You said faith but has NO works. which means no works.

this is exactly what I said. so why are you trying to twist what I said, and make yourself look like the one twisting (ie a hypocrite)

Zero works equals zero works.

\You can not use this to claim someone can have faith plus works at one time in their life, then because they have a time where thier is little or no work in their life they lost salvation. It does not fit what James said.

Would you like to try again?
You are trying to wiggle out of what you said. So let me just ask you directly: Can a man be saved by having faith without works?
 
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You are trying to wiggle out of what you said. So let me just ask you directly: Can a man be saved by having faith without works?
And I already answered.

A faith which is absent of works is dead. Can a dead faith save you? No

But this is not what you said.

You said a man can be saved, stop working and lose salvation. that is NOT what james is saying.
 
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In the context of 1 Cor 3, "work" refers to converts. The convert is responsible for his own faithfulness and if he becomes unfaithful he will burn yet the one who converted will still be saved if he remains faithful.
No.

the context of 1 cor 3 is our own personal work. not someone elses work. where do you get this stuff??