It's no small matter. There's this ecumenicism the Bible doesn't teach these days, where it's preferable to sing kumbaya straight into hell, than to shine a light on lies and error. Pharisaical self righteousness is damning, a mockery of the cross. It was a question I previously offered: how is the Holy Spirit failing some people, to guide them to even plain and simple Bible truths that generations of the Spirit-filled have understood? Is the Holy Spirit a failure, God forbid, or is it, more appropriately, another problem, another gospel, of the doctrines of false prophets? I, for one, have seen nobody doing anything but parroting the teachings of known cults, with some of the rogue Hebrew roots, from a public access channel, thrown in, Gentile Johnny dresses up like a Jew.
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit would not lead you into grievous error. Regarding doctrines that your salvation hinges on there is no compromise. Salvation is not subjective.
What people do is make God in their image instead of searching the scriptures to find out who God really is. The scriptures reveal who God is and his plan for salvation.
But even farther back than that it really is the fear of God that is the beginning of wisdom.
It is also a matter of pride because if you can make your own religious rituals to follow then that leads to a sense of accomplishment and gives people something to work for and towards. But grace cannot be worked for because if it could then it would be owed to you and then it would not really be grace which is God's mercy.
A person needs to humble themselves and come to God with a childlike faith. That way they can accept the gospel which is really quite simple and understand that they need to depend 100 percent on Christ for their salvation and 0 percent on themselves.
[h=1]Psalm 25:14New International Version (NIV)[/h] [SUP]14 [/SUP]The Lord confides in those who fear him;
he makes his covenant known to them.
[h=1]Acts 10:22New International Version (NIV)[/h] [SUP]22 [/SUP]The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.”
[h=1]Acts 13:26New International Version (NIV)[/h] [SUP]26 [/SUP]“Fellow children of Abraham and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
[h=1]Romans 4:1-8New International Version (NIV)[/h] [h=3]Abraham Justified by Faith[/h]4 What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, discovered in this matter? [SUP]2 [/SUP]If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about—but not before God. [SUP]3 [/SUP]What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[SUP][
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[SUP]4 [/SUP]Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. [SUP]5 [/SUP]However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. [SUP]6 [/SUP]David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
[SUP]7 [/SUP]“Blessed are those
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”[SUP][
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[/SUP][h=1]Matthew 18:2-3New International Version (NIV)[/h] [SUP]2 [/SUP]He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
