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9/10/2020 2:03 PM |
Stevenr | | Missouri | | | |
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John UK. I believe you are misquoting and misusing Scripture in this case… Let me elaborate. 1 Corinthians 5:5 “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”This man’s testimony was a blight on the church and on the Lord who saved him… However, Paul was telling them to chastise him and put him out of the church… Let his lifestyle kill him so he wouldn’t be a blight—yet his souls was still saved because that was a result of the finished work of Christ, and not a result of his sinless living. Paul was NOT saying that the man was suddenly lost for his actions. He was a saved person whose testimony went south. So, I say pat them on the head, and say “Deary, deary.... until your testimony is clear, please don’t continue to disgrace the name of the Lord who saved you by speaking kindly of vile affections. When you are ready to do that, we will welcome you back to the fold with open arms.” But to suddenly judge that “Nope, they are lost...” is outside my pay grade. The later scriptures, v12-13 are a chastisement to the Church who was too busy judging the world that needed Christ and giving a free pass to the sinning Christians in the congregation. |
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9/9/2020 6:12 PM |
Stevenr | | Missouri | | | |
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Again, I chuckle that the point of my message was missed. I too stand against adultery, fornication, (visual and physical,) homosexuality, beastiality, sex changism, divorce (exp regarding remarriage,) feminism and the other isms. (tired of typing,) I LOVE how my pointing out that saved people can sin—(and unfortunately do so on a consistent basis,) and that God doesn’t differentiate between the sins many seem to ignore, (like Pride,) and the ones listed—and turned that into an automatic judgement that I not only sin, but am making excuses for it. THAT is precisely the Pharisaical attitude that I was referring to, and for which Christ preached against. (please see Christ’s comments in Luke 18.) So, since anything I say is probably going to be twisted to mean that I am lost to meet your self-aggrandizing pride, I will close my comments for now. I will be praying for you, and hope you continue to do likewise. |
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9/9/2020 5:25 PM |
Stevenr | | Missouri | | | |
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John UK, et al... I don’t wish for my comments to be misunderstood… However, it seems that many have a tendency to only pull out what they want to argue about… Their pet points… And ignore the totality of the message. Simply put, my point is this: The Bible is very specific when it says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Paul is adamant when he describes his struggle to not sin in the book of Romans. There are a variety of sinful struggles that Christians will face after salvation. Some Christians struggle with greed, some with gluttony, a whole bunch with pride… (pharisaical is probably a good word....) and others fall into other areas of sin based on their attachment to the culture. What I am suggesting is that if we are applying scripture properly, we will understand that we are sinners as long as we have flesh, and we have flesh until we die. I am not going to judge someone else’s salvation based on sin… Because I also have sin. Are other sins more disgusting to me than my own? Probably. But my Bible tells me that if I offend in one point I am guilty of the whole law. I believe scripture is specific that a lot was saved despite his end. Personally, I believe Demas was saved, despite departing from Paul. Could this lady be saved, and then drive off into e |
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