Not By Works
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What's it like to stand up and preach to a congregation that all believes they've attained perfection, if the preacher thinks he's perfect too, and agrees that everyone he is talking to is perfect?
Does he just pat everyone on the back and then pass the plate?
Does he just pat everyone on the back and then pass the plate?
Romans 6:23 (HCSB)
[SUP]23 [/SUP] For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:14 (CSBBible)
[SUP]14 [/SUP] Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression. He is a type of the Coming One.
Romans 8:3 (GWT)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] It is impossible to do what God's standards demand because of the weakness our human nature has. But God sent his Son to have a human nature as sinners have and to pay for sin. That way God condemned sin in our corrupt nature.
In the Apocrypha it says:
2 Esdras 7:118 (NRSV)
[SUP]118 [/SUP] O Adam, what have you done? For though it was you who sinned, the fall was not yours alone, but ours also who are your descendants.
evening, Bill, how are you?
the improper quote feature becomes a cascading thing, once one poster gets it wrong.
every 'reply with quote' begins with this symbol [ then the word QUOTE then the user name and a number and the ].
they all end with [ / QUOTE ] i separated them so it wouldn't form a quote box, but if we want to do that,
when i quoted your post, i cleaned up everything but the quote box with your user name and the number in it, and the ending quote box.
that should all be clear as mud now. lol
if you try it out it should make much more sense.
the improper quote feature becomes a cascading thing, once one poster gets it wrong.
every 'reply with quote' begins with this symbol [ then the word QUOTE then the user name and a number and the ].
they all end with [ / QUOTE ] i separated them so it wouldn't form a quote box, but if we want to do that,
we can do it easily!
that should all be clear as mud now. lol
if you try it out it should make much more sense.
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Saved believers can also have works of wood, hay and stubble which get burnt to a crisp and yet they are saved
The Corinthian fornicator SAVED, but cut lose for the destruction of the flesh yet SPIRIT saved in day of CHRIST
The prodigal squandered his inheritance through riotous living and ended up with the pigs yet still a son through the whole process, received, given a robe and ring
AND...lest we forget...ONE who has believed ALREADY has done the works of the Heavenly Father (believed on the one who was sent)
Saved believers can also have works of wood, hay and stubble which get burnt to a crisp and yet they are saved
The Corinthian fornicator SAVED, but cut lose for the destruction of the flesh yet SPIRIT saved in day of CHRIST
The prodigal squandered his inheritance through riotous living and ended up with the pigs yet still a son through the whole process, received, given a robe and ring
AND...lest we forget...ONE who has believed ALREADY has done the works of the Heavenly Father (believed on the one who was sent)