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I'd like to ask your opinion on something EG as it seems we may have grown up in the same kind of church enviroment.
Some say, you can't be saved/a Chrtistian unless you understand the Gospel of grace/live it out in your life.
As a child I put my hand up at that church to become a Christian. I believed Jesus died for my sins and I repented and asked him into my life as Lord and Saviour. I immediately knew I had to live according to what God desired(which when I look back had to be His good and Holy laws) i was convicted in my heart of this
A catholic on anolther website startled me a few months ago, this is what he said.
We earnestly strive not to sin, when we do, we ask forgiveness of our sin(I know he did it through a priest, but not important as to the point here) we are then forgiven, and for a time we are in a state of sinlessness. We strive to remain in this state and not to sin, but inevitably the sin returns, we must then seek forgiveness for the sin, or we are in danger of losing our salvation and ending up in hell. We are forgiven, and the process starts again.
That is exactly how I viewed it in the fundamentalist biblie believing church of my youth. Yet I was sincere, and wanted so much to please God and not sin/live as he wanted me to. I had accepted Christ into my life, under the truth of scripture/the Gospel, but then in effect lived under law
This is my question. Was I unsaved at that time due to me not
understanding the Gosepl of Grace? If I had of died, before I knew Grace, would I have gone to hell? Or could I have been saved, and gone to Heaven(at the resurrection of the dead)
Some say, you can't be saved/a Chrtistian unless you understand the Gospel of grace/live it out in your life.
As a child I put my hand up at that church to become a Christian. I believed Jesus died for my sins and I repented and asked him into my life as Lord and Saviour. I immediately knew I had to live according to what God desired(which when I look back had to be His good and Holy laws) i was convicted in my heart of this
A catholic on anolther website startled me a few months ago, this is what he said.
We earnestly strive not to sin, when we do, we ask forgiveness of our sin(I know he did it through a priest, but not important as to the point here) we are then forgiven, and for a time we are in a state of sinlessness. We strive to remain in this state and not to sin, but inevitably the sin returns, we must then seek forgiveness for the sin, or we are in danger of losing our salvation and ending up in hell. We are forgiven, and the process starts again.
That is exactly how I viewed it in the fundamentalist biblie believing church of my youth. Yet I was sincere, and wanted so much to please God and not sin/live as he wanted me to. I had accepted Christ into my life, under the truth of scripture/the Gospel, but then in effect lived under law
This is my question. Was I unsaved at that time due to me not
understanding the Gosepl of Grace? If I had of died, before I knew Grace, would I have gone to hell? Or could I have been saved, and gone to Heaven(at the resurrection of the dead)
I was taught God gives you eternal life. Just that if you sinned, you must not be saved. so of course I always questioned it. (i still do from time to time, but satan loves to do this)
The problem is we sin all the time and probably do not know it, especially as babes in Christ. It is not until we mature that we (as Paul) figure out how truly wretched we are.
As I say over and over, people that preach that crap do not realise the sin they have, or they would never preach the stuff they do