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Both of you refuse to put into your understanding the kind of grace and mercy that God exercises toward sinful man that is revealed by these scriptural illustrations, that have been given to us by God through the Holy Spirit. You do not consider their godly value to your understanding because you both live in relevant righteousness based upon the moral dictates of your own conscience and not a conscience that is regulated by the nature and whole counsel of God. This is why you bring in labels such as 'free grace' and 'easy believism', because of your standards of relevant righteousness that puts restrictions of morality that violates those standards. Measure up or we judge.
You both have the same 'elder brother' spirit that is illustrated in (Luke 15:25-32)...
25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant . 27 And he said unto him , Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound . 28 And he was angry , and would not go in : therefore came his father out , and intreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo , these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 30 But as soon as this thy son was come , which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.32 It was meet that we should make merry , and be glad : for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost , and is found .
The elder brother, who dud his duty and lived a moral and upright life compared to his younger brother, was angry because of how the father treated his prodigal son with mercy after he had gone out and live a despicable life of sin with harlots and others forms of riotous living. Can you tell me the fruit of repentance that we see with the prodigal son who had returned home? Don't you think that the father was premature in slaying the fatted calf and giving him the robe, the shoes and the ring? Don't you think that this prodigal son needed a time of probation to prove himself before they had this great celebration of joy in the father's house?
You both have the same 'elder brother' spirit that is illustrated in (Luke 15:25-32)...
25 Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing. 26 And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant . 27 And he said unto him , Thy brother is come ; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound . 28 And he was angry , and would not go in : therefore came his father out , and intreated him. 29 And he answering said to his father, Lo , these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 30 But as soon as this thy son was come , which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf. 31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.32 It was meet that we should make merry , and be glad : for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost , and is found .
The elder brother, who dud his duty and lived a moral and upright life compared to his younger brother, was angry because of how the father treated his prodigal son with mercy after he had gone out and live a despicable life of sin with harlots and others forms of riotous living. Can you tell me the fruit of repentance that we see with the prodigal son who had returned home? Don't you think that the father was premature in slaying the fatted calf and giving him the robe, the shoes and the ring? Don't you think that this prodigal son needed a time of probation to prove himself before they had this great celebration of joy in the father's house?
The only thing I can preclude by your posts is that you believe the books of James and Jude should be erased from Gods word.
It is a sad thing when people pick and chose which parts of scripture is true, and which parts we disregard.
ps. the prodigal son is not in question. Yet we have already shown this. Your continued case of bringing him up to prove your point proves you do not want to discuss scripture and what scripture says, but you own alterior motives. Which is to prove LBG wrong at all cost.