“It is you who don’t know the purpose of why [Jesus] came.” My dear Friend, not only does your flagrant arrogance here not become you as a person, it is actually keeping you from inheriting the Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus himself came to offer you … Please consider: “Truly I tell you, unless you […]
“It is NOT God who allows you to go to Hell. It is our own actions” Goodness gracious! Here we are back at the topic of Hell again … (sigh) … Have you not listened to anything I have offered in this thread, Lucy? It seems that no matter what issue we cover and no […]
“We make our own decisions in our lives, and we all know right from wrong. It is not God’s fault we choose to break God’s Law.” True enough, my Friend – it definitely is not God’s fault when we violate His laws, and yet it most certainly is God’s fault for making unjust laws […]
“To you, Jesus was just a man. To me, he is my Lord and Savior” … Well, first of all Lucy, that I happen to think that Jesus was “only a man” is not only Biblically accurate (see Acts 2:22, 1 John 4:2, 2 John 1:7, Luke 2:7, John 4:6, John 19:28, Matthew 4:2, Matthew […]
“To repent means to turn from the sin you are in — not to embrace [that sin]” LUCY! If I am going to take the time to respectfully write detailed and thoroughly researched responses to your arguments, the very least you could do is read them! You have already made this false claim several times […]
“I embrace the whole teachings from front cover to the back. I don’t pick and choose what verses I like, as you do.” Once again, here you are making yet another false claim – one that I have thoroughly & repeatedly disproven throughout this entire thread … Indeed, it is I who have provided […]
“When salvation by grace alone — through faith alone in Christ alone — is denied, there is no salvation.” Once again, my dear, even though Paul almost always agrees with this statement (see Galatians 5:6, where he admits – albeit unwittingly – that faith without acts of Love is nothing), you make a claim […]
You then note that, “When the Word of Truth is denied, there is no salvation” … Here we actually have another statement with which I wholeheartedly agree, as long as “the Word of Truth” – or better stated, the wordS of TRUTH – are the ones written in RED in your Bible – the words […]
“When Jesus’ second coming bodily to rule and judge the Earth is denied, there is no salvation.” Again, my dear, while Paul would feebly admit that this might be so – and while the author of the book of Revelation (who scholars agree was not John the disciple, by the way) would crassly proclaim […]
“We are not saved on the basis of simply saying we believe Jesus existed, or that he was a great guy, or that he was a prophet, or that he was a wonderful teacher … [We are saved] on the basis of our continued belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and that he will ultimately […]
Before we move on I think it’s time to get us back on track again, my Friend. You and I have drifted far into the depths of Christianity, both its traditional Paulinism & The Way of Christ – a departure from the main point of this thread that has been admittedly quite enjoyable for me, […]
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