Steven Anderson is wrong - Sodomites can still be saved.

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Dino246

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But if you count the NLT to be faulty, then it stands to reason that other translations are faulty.
No, it does not ‘stand to reason’. That’s not even remotely logical. Rather, it’s ridiculously flawed thinking.
 

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Amen.

Any sinner can be saved. Even Sodomites (Homosexuals and Lesbians). If they will simply believe the Gospel of The Death, Burial and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, trusting alone in that Finished Work of His, as the only sufficient payment for their sins. I saw Aden Rusfeldt recently tell a group of Sodomites on a campus somewhere, that they could not be saved. Basically he was telling them that there is no hope for them. And then in another video, I heard another preacher in his group, telling Sodomites at a pride event "I would not even share my testimony with you." Well, of course, he wouldn't. Why would he? he doesn't think that they can be saved anyway. Which also brings up another question to my mind, why are they even out there preaching to them? I am mean If God cannot save them, According to their reprobate heresy, well then aren't they wasting their time??? Oh but they will go out there just to call them names and to rail on them.

Well, he, like Steven Anderson, is also wrong. That's Heresy. Once again, this kind of thinking of theirs, comes from that "reprobate doctrine." If Sodomites cannot be saved, then neither can those other sinners be saved in that list of Romans 1 (i.e. backbiters, whisperers, covetous, fornicators, boasters, inventors of evil things, murderers, disobedient to parent's, etc.) The truth is, that whole group of Gentiles mentioned in Romans 1, had been given over to a reprobate mind and not just the Sodomites (Homosexuals and Lesbians). What is a reprobate mind? Simply put, it is a mind that is inverted. Any wicked person that is depraved has a reprobate mind at that present time. Which would explain why their conduct is as wicked as it is. But even a Reprobate can still be saved, if he will repent (change his mind about God and about himself) and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

He totally is wrong
 

justbyfaith

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No, its not about us. Its about God

By one offering HE HAS PERFECTED FOEVER. Those HE IS SANCTIFYING.

it is God who sanctifies me not Me.

I can do nothing in the flesh but sin.
He will not sanctify you against your will.

You must surrender to His Lordship for Him to do so.
 

justbyfaith

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The KJV is faulty. Any bible interpreted in the English language is faulty.

Thats why God gave us strong people who created strong lexicons and dictionaries and greek/hebrew texts so we can go back to see what was really said.
This crates for a cult-like mentality in which the amateur Greek and Hebrew scholar becomes the cult-leader; because now he can tell you what the holy scriptures REALLY MEAN.

No, I believe that God gave His unadulterated message to the common people, in their own language.

For the educated scribes and Pharisees rejected Jesus while the common people heard Him gladly.

So, I do not believe that God is going to limit His unadulterated message to educated Hebrew and Greek scholars; who might be inclined to reject Him.

He is going to give it to the common person who can only read the Bible in his own language.
 

justbyfaith

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Lol.

Thats to bad. I guess thats what you get when you do not study the greek hebrew texts..
I take it that you are an expert in Hebrew and Greek?

Because if you are only an amateur, you are subject to error in your own translation of what is written.
 

justbyfaith

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If we say we have no sin we decieve ourselves
Jesus said he did not come to judge he came to save

What gives you the right to judge when nt even Jesus did that?
Notice it does not say in 1 John 1:8, "If we say that we do no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."

Because if it did, it would be in contradiction to its context in 1 John 3:5-0.

And you are right that He came to save...

He came to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21) and to redeem us from all iniquity (Titus 2:13-14).
 

justbyfaith

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Well he did not. Most definitely not in the king jimmy
He did...even in the kjv.

However, because you are one who does not endure sound doctrine, you heap for yourselves teachers in the translators of other versions.

Unfortunately for you, you cannot even trust any Bible. You have to learn Greek and Hebrew to the point of being able to read and speak these languages; or else you will never be able to get God's unadulterated message (from your perspective).
 

justbyfaith

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No, it does not ‘stand to reason’. That’s not even remotely logical. Rather, it’s ridiculously flawed thinking.
Not completely.

The reasoning is that if the NLT is faulty, then God did not place His guard over every translation; and therefore other translations can also be faulty.
 

Dino246

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Not completely.

The reasoning is that if the NLT is faulty, then God did not place His guard over every translation; and therefore other translations can also be faulty.
Like I said, that’s not logical.

There is absolutely no causal connection between God’s alleged failure to oversee the NLT and His alleged oversight of any other translation. Here’s the simple truth: the translations are not inspired. ALL are potentially erroneous in places.
 

justbyfaith

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Like I said, that’s not logical.

There is absolutely no causal connection between God’s alleged failure to oversee the NLT and His alleged oversight of any other translation. Here’s the simple truth: the translations are not inspired. ALL are potentially erroneous in places.
So, you affirm the conclusion that you say that I have come to illogically.

Perhaps potentially, but not in reality.

The kjv is inspired and inerrant as concerning doctrine.

For God is not going to limit His unadulterated message to educated Greek and Hebrew scholars; who might be inclined to reject Him.

He is going to give it to the common people who receive Him gladly.
 

justbyfaith

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The kjv is inspired and inerrant as concerning doctrine.
As is every modern translation of Scripture.
I won't disagree with that...

However I will contend that modern translations are in fact watered down so that one cannot be adequately edified by them.

That a person can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus through every translation is kind of an up-in-the-air proposition for me. I think that while the gospel message cannot be completely subverted by all of the subtractions, it is more difficult for someone to get the full message when certain words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and even entire passages are removed from the translation that you are reading.
 

Dino246

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I won't disagree with that...

However I will contend that modern translations are in fact watered down so that one cannot be adequately edified by them.

That a person can come to the saving knowledge of Jesus through every translation is kind of an up-in-the-air proposition for me. I think that while the gospel message cannot be completely subverted by all of the subtractions, it is more difficult for someone to get the full message when certain words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and even entire passages are removed from the translation that you are reading.
I challenge you to support your assertion with evidence; without which it is merely a speculative opinion.
 

justbyfaith

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I challenge you to support your assertion with evidence; without which it is merely a speculative opinion.
Consider Luke 9:55-56 in the NIV vs. the kjv.

This is only one example.

Another example is Romans 13:9 in both of these versions.

There are many more.

Some versions entirely remove the first half of John 8 and the last half of Mark 16.
 
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Since before 1986...however at that time is when I first spoke in tongues and I consider that I was saved at that point.
So for 35 years. You did not learn to live in the spirit, you still sin?

Spoke in tongues? What does that have to do with anything???That does not make you a believer
 
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He will not sanctify you against your will.

You must surrender to His Lordship for Him to do so.
Jonah. Ring any bells? Did God just let him walk away and do what he wanted?
 
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This crates for a cult-like mentality in which the amateur Greek and Hebrew scholar becomes the cult-leader; because now he can tell you what the holy scriptures REALLY MEAN.

No, I believe that God gave His unadulterated message to the common people, in their own language.

For the educated scribes and Pharisees rejected Jesus while the common people heard Him gladly.

So, I do not believe that God is going to limit His unadulterated message to educated Hebrew and Greek scholars; who might be inclined to reject Him.

He is going to give it to the common person who can only read the Bible in his own language.
Lol,

You do not have to be a brain surgeon. You can look at the greek word. Look at the defenition. Look at the language used. And realise. That what is written in english does not actually fit perfectly with what was said.

Case in point is when Jesus asked peter if he loved him. No english text properly interprets that passage. Although it is not so bad people will misinterpret it. It is just that the depth of what happened there is not able to be sEven, Because the english word love is to open. Where as the greek has multiple words for love.

That is just one example.
 

justbyfaith

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So for 35 years. You did not learn to live in the spirit, you still sin?

Spoke in tongues? What does that have to do with anything???That does not make you a believer
Speaking in tongues is an evidence of being filled with the Spirit.

Are you questioning my salvation?

I think that there might be a rule against doing that.

In answer to your first question, my answer is 1 Corinthians 4:3-4.
 
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I take it that you are an expert in Hebrew and Greek?

Because if you are only an amateur, you are subject to error in your own translation of what is written.
I never said I was perfect now did I. But I can test the spirits of what people tell me..

You can;t do that if you hold yourself only to an eng;ish text.

The english language is flawed. If the language is flawed then you expect an interpretation to that language to be flawed.

Literally the word would be twice and large if they accurately and correctly completely interpreted the word..

{baptism is not even an english word it is a transliteration of the greek. And because they di dnot translate it. We have so many false teachers misapplying baptism and many applying water baptism to a false gospel of works.