Blik, post: 4330533, member: 249025"]If you are going to Christ, and I am not-- as you say, then retirement years devoted to scripture study would be useless. Is your scripture different from mine? Mine has four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, does yours?
you have an interesting choice of words there Blik. You often mention Christ, but I never said you were 'not going to Him'. kindly post the place I said that but I know you won't find it. you reject the NT scripture that tells us plainly that the law no longer applies and that those who insist on following it, albeit in half measures, are under a curse and further, this has been pointed out to you multiple times by multiple people, myself included. In fact, it has just recently been pointed out to you yet again in post 48 by a relative newcomer to these forums AND again in post 65. It seems you deny what the word states and choose what you wish to follow for your own pleasure
As far as your personal investment in your 'studies', better to come to grips with it now that you have failed to grasp the truth of the gospel, then waste another number of years following the same unbiblical pursuit of trying to keep the law or portions of the law, which the NT assures saves absolutely NO ONE
I can't remember all your posts but if you believe in the teachings of the main line churches then please ask yourself if your scripture you have tells you about Easter? The KJV interpreted the word Passover as Easter, that doesn't count. Do you find a passage that says the Law is cancelled? Part of the old covenant is obsolete, what of what Moses taught is obsolete? Find where God makes a statement that the Sabbath day He established is cancelled. I don't mean use fleshly reasoning to come up with this but find that statement by the Lord. If He cancelled it scripture would make that statement. We can use a man made day, or even copy the day the pagans used, but that doesn't mean God cancelled what He created.
I believe the gospel as presented in scripture. You can malign what you call main line churches, but when you cross the line and malign the actual gospel as revealed in scripture, then you have begun to preach a different gospel. A gospel that does not glorify Jesus, a gospel that says you still have to follow the law or parts of the law, a gospel, in fact, that the scripture informs us, will PUT YOU UNDER A CURSE!
Are you just kidding? You have been pointed to the scriptures that state that very thing that you say does not exist. God did not create sin and the law EXPOSES sin. God made a way out of the predicament of all flesh and offered His own Son for a once and forever sin offering and you REFUSE it! God help you. This is as serious as life and death because one is death, the law which no one can keep so therefore it cannot save, and the sacrifice that God provided which does save forever and gives new life even while we are on this earth. You know, I doubt you will keep on hearing this forever because if the gospel falls on deaf ears, if the seed falls on shallow ground or deception covers the eyes, the refusal will become more apparent and the heart will become ever harder while telling itself it is saved and everyone else is wrong.
These interpretations of scripture are all from man using fleshly reason, not from statements of the Lord. The Jews did this. One of their laws was about how far you could go on a Sabbath. They used scripture to back up their decision. Another was to not help a man in trouble on the Sabbath, and scripture tells of that one. You are following men, not God and raking me over the coals, judging and condemning me because I follow what scripture tells me.
Oh the irony and the hypocrisy of this statement above. YOU USE scripture all the time to tell others how wrong they are, how they misunderstand while you do understand. You misquote and you DELIBERATELY twist what is said to you.
Madame, it is YOU that is following error and not those of us who consistently and with obvious patience, although you have proven to dislike our words AND scripture, point out to you what the scriptures of the NT declare, that there is no more sacrifice and no more need to follow the institutions of the Jews in the OT.
If you think there are coals under your feet, I would suggest to you it is the Holy Spirit appealing to you to turn from your error
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be glorified in all He has done and in all He has provided