Not By Works

Go for it mate.

You can do it

Even though you and I do not agree on various things.
Even at times you do my head in, and I'm sure I do your head in.
I do have to say that I do not consider you as a rude person.

oh?

then that isn't what you mean by 'come as you are religion' ?
are you still refusing to clarify that personal phrase of yours?

all i'm doing is asking questions, dude. 'whoever hears & puts these sayings into practice' + 'ask, seek'

could you please just say what you mean, if you can't be bothered to define your private idioms for us?

vss. 16-17 Israel, you suck--you are not doing the things you ought to be doing for your needy.

vs. 18 Come to me Israel, and you can find cleansing and forgiveness

vs. 19 Even though you suck right now, Israel, you can have my blessings again

vs. 20 But if you prefer to suck, I'm going to kick your tails all over the place.

I am talking about this TREAD, we are almost all in agreement here, and we think Scripture is the Ultimate Answer. So many of us will just answer with Scripture.

Our Savior is the firstborn of every creature Colossians 1:15-18,,so there's no question that our Savior is not an afterthought but that before the first man was made the one to die on the cross to save him/us is his will. So Jesus our Lord did die for the sins of the whole world almost 2000 years ago and since then me and you were born and at first we didn't so much as understand we needed to be saved. As time went on though we knew we had sinned and so then knew we needed some how to be saved. Some then went about the acts of this very thing.

A human is a peculiar thing,we close our eyes and there is a spirit in there and it says things to the flesh body of us and it obeys our spirits voice. Our body is a faithful servant to our spirit in that if we say to it to sin it will obey without argument and in the same if we say to it to do good it also will.

If we say to it with our spirits voice that today it needs to get dressed because were going to have it walk down to a Church and get saved it will do it,it is a faithful servant. Then again it is a faithful servant that has always obeyed the very voice of our spirits so is it guilty or is it our spirit?

Now our Lord Jesus did some 2000 years ago save both you and me on the cross but how would you know if I believed it? Would you rather me say to you "have you been saved yet?" and talk you into saying to your body to go get saved or would you rather me explain to you that he did save you and that you are?

lol, You see one man says Jesus is my savior and he's scared to death about it and you can tell because he says to his body to go through a set of works as if he dont really believe it. But there's another man that says he saved us on the cross but instead of saying to his body to go about works, he rest.

I think you will find Abram did come as he was.
That's why he went.
Did he have anything to repent off?

Joshua 24:2-4
2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and they served other gods. 3 Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. 4 To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

My guess is that Abram did not know the true God when he was called to follow him.
God called him to follow him where he was at, he accepted him.

So Abram did come as he was because God called to him as he was.
That was his repentance when he believed God is who he said he is.
And he followed him.

Did God call Paul as a repentant person or as a unrepentant person?

My guess is and my religion tells me that God accepted Paul where he was at.
No repenting needed to come to him, but repentance when revealed to him.

Does your religion and it's God disagree with my thoughts

Jesus never excused the sin, but He always offers salvation without "conditions attached"
Like decon say's, aren't you the absolute "Cake Taker", praise God Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

1) The woman at the well: John4:25,26
25) The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything.”
26) Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

2) The woman caught in adultry: John8:10,11
10) Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11) “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,”Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

3) An Invitation: Revelation22:17
17) The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” Let the one who is thirsty come; "and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life."

the guests at the king's banquet were gathered and brought in under compulsion from the streets - as they were
where did their wedding garments come from?

what gifts did the shepherds bring when they came to the newborn King? what gift did they leave with?

it's good how you had a personal idiom to share, explained it, gave it context, used it to glorify God and made it clear exactly how it does so
even, succinctly

thanks!

Keep telling yourself that drivel.....only in your mind pal.....

He cannot do that because it will equate to him walking in error.....but hey.....zealous for sure, but without knowledge!

Paul had the same struggle as evidenced by his words.....most overlook or sweep under the table the following truth....the more time one spends with Jesus the more wicked we see ourselves in light of his righteousness....Paul testifies to this by what he said in the following...note....the first part was in the beginning of his ministry and the last toward the end of his ministry...

a. Least of the Apostles
b. Least of the Saints
c. Chief number 1 sinner among men

He also said.....

The things i say I am going to do I do not do and the things I say I am not going to do, those things I do...and then calls himself a wretched man...ALL IN PRESENT TENSE

That is why, in my view, any and all who lift self and believe they have some grand part in gaining or keeping salvation ultimately are devaluing the ministry, work, power, and promises of Christ....

The bible is clear on both issues....

a. God knew I would believe before he cast down the world
b. I was saved the day I confessed Christ as Lord and Savior by grace through faith into his death, burial and resurrection.....

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “I loved Jacob, but Esau I hated. I turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the jackals in the desert.

Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED."

Salvation IS ETERNAL.

Absolutely I will find out how Different Eternal Life actually IS.

SOON AND VERY SOON!

I have to share this song with all of you,
may favorite by Jessy Dixxon:

My Bible says all men have sinned, and that without repentance from this sin, there is no forgiveness. Are you saying Abraham didn't ever sin? And if he did, are you saying he never repented?

How do you know Abram didn't seek God?

John 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Duet 4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Abram's Father's house, his kindred, his country?

Would these Word's of God also be for all men, even Abraham?

29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

What does God call men to do? Is it not to "Seek Him"?


So in your religion God just didn't like Abraham's kindred, his father. He just reached his hand into a hat and brought out Abrams name. So in your religion, Grace and Mercy is by a lottery?


God also called Pharaoh for His purpose, and the serpent in the beginning. Do you preach this story erases all the Word's of God which speak of repentance?

And yet God knocked him off his horse, told him his preaching was false, took his vision away, hid him away from the Mainstream Preachers of his time for His purpose. How can you even stretch that to be "taking him as he was"?

I think the God of the Bible disagrees with your religion Billy, as Paul points out;

Acts 26:
19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
20 But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent (not come as they are) and turn to God, (not stay as they were) and do works meet (worthy) for repentance. (Called to change)

Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Change)