Not By Works
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I can't even do all my housework let alone go out to do anything. I'd be in flames too. 
What we can do is worship Him. I know Jesus, Father, and Holy Spirit loves this!
What we can do is worship Him. I know Jesus, Father, and Holy Spirit loves this!
[h=1]Romans 8:35-39 New King James Version (NKJV)[/h][FONT="]35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:[/FONT]
[FONT="][FONT="]“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”[a][/FONT]
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[FONT="]37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord...
...Praise God and thank you Jesus , for when we are weak , we are made strong through you \/...xox...[/FONT]
One of my sisters also was in a coma and yet, a minute before her death, she opened her eyes, looked around at our voices, smiled the most beautiful smile and one could feel the Holy Spirit in that room. To this very day, it gives me such a awesome feeling. We were in the presence of the Lord Himself.
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I agree, that is bad doctrine.
The question each of us has to ask ourselves is, "do I truly trust in the blood of Christ for salvation?", not, "have I done enough works to earn salvation".
The Bible tells us that we find the answer of if we truly trust in the blood of Christ by looking at our lives. John explains how people who look like Jesus in this life don't wonder in fear about the coming judgment. Their lives testify for them that they have the faith that justifies (not testify that they've done enough works to earn salvation). People who obey God's commands don't have to worry about if they truly believe and are saved or not.
People who don't obey God's commands and who don't look like Jesus in this life are the ones who can't know for sure if they are saved. They are the ones that gravitate towards the ear tickling teaching that assurance of salvation comes from 'once saved always saved'. The Bible does not teach that assurance comes from 'once saved always saved'. The problem with that doctrine of assurance is it still doesn't answer the fundamental question of whether you're even born again in the first place for that doctrine to even apply to you.
The question each of us has to ask ourselves is, "do I truly trust in the blood of Christ for salvation?", not, "have I done enough works to earn salvation".
The Bible tells us that we find the answer of if we truly trust in the blood of Christ by looking at our lives. John explains how people who look like Jesus in this life don't wonder in fear about the coming judgment. Their lives testify for them that they have the faith that justifies (not testify that they've done enough works to earn salvation). People who obey God's commands don't have to worry about if they truly believe and are saved or not.
People who don't obey God's commands and who don't look like Jesus in this life are the ones who can't know for sure if they are saved. They are the ones that gravitate towards the ear tickling teaching that assurance of salvation comes from 'once saved always saved'. The Bible does not teach that assurance comes from 'once saved always saved'. The problem with that doctrine of assurance is it still doesn't answer the fundamental question of whether you're even born again in the first place for that doctrine to even apply to you.
What does your assertion of mostly unused theological terms have to do with the fact that the law is in force today. At 73 and been a Christian since grade school and been an elder and deacon in 3 different churches (moved twice) I never heard those terms before. Methinks you are a bit of a showoff. Also eschatology has 4 seperate Biblical views and this is tied into that.
Matthew 5:17 to 20 NIV
The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Every time we transgress the law we sin.
If we do not accept Jesus as our savior we will be held accountable for them at the time of judgment.
If we accept Jesus as our savior then our sins are imputed to Him and His rightnerighte is imputed to us. Therefore at the time of judgment we have been cleansed by His blood. A blood sacrifice is required to remove sins.
Matthew 5:17 to 20 NIV
The Fulfillment of the Law
17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Every time we transgress the law we sin.
If we do not accept Jesus as our savior we will be held accountable for them at the time of judgment.
If we accept Jesus as our savior then our sins are imputed to Him and His rightnerighte is imputed to us. Therefore at the time of judgment we have been cleansed by His blood. A blood sacrifice is required to remove sins.