You forgot to call me an IDIOT....and you still fail to understand a few things...
Who is the book written to....HEBREW CHRISTIANS who were wanting to go back UNDER THE LAW AND THE OLD WAYS while TRYING to MIX FAITH AND THE WORKS OF THE LAW......You guys take the cake and top awards in the ability to twist, miss context and apply scripture where scripture is not applied.....
Whatever dude.....believe what you will....!
QUOTE=JesusistheChrist;1892778]Actually, here's your "quote" IN CONTEXT:
"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" (Romans 5:20-6:2)
What is it about God forbid that we should continue in sin that you don't understand?
What is it about being dead to sin that you don't understand?
Plenty, obviously.
Here's your "putting Him to an open shame" reference IN CONTEXT, too:
Hebrews chapter 6
[1] Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
[2] Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
[3] And this will we do, if God permit.
[4] For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
[5] And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
[6] If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
These people were CHRISTIANS who had "laid the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God and of the doctrine of baptisms and of laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgment"...
These people were CHRISTIANS "who were once enlightened"...
These people were CHRISTIANS "who had tasted of the heavenly gift"...
These people were CHRISTIANS "who were made partakers of the Holy Ghost"...
These people were CHRISTIANS "who had tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come"...
These people were CHRISTIANS AND IF THEY FELL AWAY, WHICH FALSE TEACHERS LIKE YOU INSIST ISN'T POSSIBLE, THEN IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO RENEW THEM AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE SEEING HOW THEY WOULD NEED TO CRUCIFY TO THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD AFRESH AND PUT HIM TO AN OPEN SHAME...
Having suffered through your posts and the posts of several others who are as deceived as you are for quite some time now, I can only conclude that you and they have no concept of salvation whatsoever and what we were actually saved FROM:
SIN!
Your comments cheapen the grace of God and do despite unto the very Spirit of grace, the Holy Spirit, in that you and people just like you insinuate that the Holy Spirit isn't truly capable of giving us the power to not sin. Yes, your comments which I've suffered through blaspheme the very work of the cross in that you regularly insinuate that Christ's atonement wasn't sufficient to undo the very sin that was brought into this world via the first Adam or that we must continue in abounding sin so that Christ's grace might somehow abound as your Bible allegedly teaches you in your warped and twisted (mis-) understanding of the same as you, ironically, accuse others of "tweaking and twisting". Your "grace" is no grace at all, but rather a "DIS-grace"...literally.
Well, just ignore Hebrews chapter 6 as you regularly ignore the rest of the epistle to the Hebrews and about half of the New Testament or all of the warnings given to CHRISTIANS throughout the scriptures. Yea, just say something childish, as is your modus operandi, like "blah, blah, blah" and "HAHAHAHA!" while simultaneously ignoring the very Word of God which is regularly set before your closed eyes.
The doctrine of "once saved, always saved" is not only a HERESY, but a potentially damnable HERESY at that...regardless of what Kenneth says to the contrary. As such, those who embrace and teach the same are HERETICS.
You know which side of the aisle I'm on...[/QUOTE]