The treatment of TweetyMom beyond admonishment, to the point where what you stated in the first sentence applies numerous times to a few posters, as for you personally I do not know. - just another general observation. I will also say we are all guilty before God for sitting in His seat, but appears intentional on the part of some.
Sitting in the seat reserved for God alone. :tsktsk:
Can someone please present a single person who is able to keep His commands beside Jesus Himself?
So you spin it , to make it easy for yourself, presumption is a dangerous sinI for one cannot meet that standard; so I’m fully counting on Christ and His righteousness credited to my account and stamped paid in full.
CarlanPossible #5 is a good work, but the rest is how one gets the justification one needs to be saved.
As one said in a different context you cannot lose which one does not have. I would like to know what it is like to go through your entire life wondering if you will make it or not. I wonder if anyone would respond to such a thread.
How has your life changed?A wonderful and powerful conversion experience Hiskid. God does do what it takes to get us to respond to his actual grace. I do think for most our experience is not quite as dramatic but more of an every day process, however, not anyless powerful though.Carlan
Then all of us are following the ruler of this world. When is the last time you sinned? Today, yesterday, a week ago?Christians who sin are following the ruler of this world. His name is Satan. The sons of disobedience are the ones who disobey God’s commandments. This is why these former sons of righteousness are now called sons of disobedience. Those who sin do love their sin more than they love God. If they loved God more than the pleasure derived from their sin, then they would choose to not sin. Those who truly love God do not sin which means that they choose to not sin against Him. 1 John 2:1-5
1 John 3:4-9
Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin (chooses to not commit sin). Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
If you commit sin, then you are breaking God’s laws. Whoever commits sin is committing lawlessness. If you truly love God, then you do not sin (you do not sin because you choose to not sin). If you commit sin, then you are sinning.
I agree with you that no one can habitually practice sin and be saved.
Judas committed one mortal sin when he betrayed our Lord. He repented of this sin. Matthew 27:3-5 But, then he despaired and hung himself. This is another mortal sin because He believed that his sin was greater than God’s mercy. He sinned against the Holy Spirit when he hung himself because he insulted the Spirit of Grace by believing that God’s mercy was not great enough to save him. This is why Jesus stated that it would have been better if he had never been born. Mark 14:21 It is better to never have been born than to suffer for eternity in hell.
If we are sinning, then the Spirit of God is definitely not working in us. The spirit of darkness is working in us instead because when we sin, then we are following the ways of the world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air. We are not following God when we sin. Ephesians 2:2
Ephesians 5:5-7
For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.
When we repent and are then baptized, Jesus forgives and atones for every single sin on our souls up to that point in time when we receive the cleansing of the baptismal waters. Adam’s sin and all of our own personal sins are taken care of for “free.” We do not have to atone for any of these personal sins. He does it all for us. He gives us a clean slate.
However, once we have been reconciled to God by the blood of Jesus applied to us through Baptism, then we have to repent and atone for every single personal sin we commit after that until the day we die. We can receive His free gift of grace only once. Romans 5:18
Whenever we sin after our reconciliation to God through baptism, then we are listening to the spirit of darkness and we are choosing to follow the ruler of the air.
If after our reconciliation to God through baptism, we are instead doing works of righteousness and are not doing sins of disobedience like breaking God’s commandments, then we are listening to the Spirit of Grace and He gives us more grace as a reward for our obedience to Him.
Praise the Lord for that!
There you go again inserting your own thoughts into the text. 1 John can be hard if you don’t start at the very beginning chapters.
Catholics answer, I am saved, (Christ’s cross ) I am being saved (keeping what he commands) I*** hope*** to be saved (perservering, enduring to the end):thumbsup:Carlan.
**Spin it??? **So you spin it , to make it easy for yourself, presumption is a dangerous sin
My life changes for the better everyday I persevere in His will, If I fall short and we all do, I repent and turn to him in the Sacrament of reconciliation, I am forgiven and reconciled in his love for me.
CarlanThat’s really quite a “Reformed” statement. Except you got it wrong.
You have not said so or plainly, but between the lines it sounds**Spin it??? **
Romans 8:1011** If Christ is in you**, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you
Romans 8:15-17 “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” 16 The **Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, **17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ”
**May I assume it is hard for you because you said it was easy for me; which of course you do not know and that does not agree with Scripture?
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Lu 13:24
"Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
The word strive is the word we use “agonize”. The key is finding the narrow way and then striving to enter by it; after that the burden is light because His yoke is easy.
to me like you are claiming the doctrine of Calvin , would it be rude of me to ask if you follow that way?CarlanIt is a Catholic statement, My hope is in the Resurection of my Lord and Savior
Presumption is a sin, Rock.
CarlanVery good exposition.
Do you keep a log of your daily failures for the confessional or do you approach the confessional on some other basis? How does that work? Or do different people do it differently? I guess the better question is what is the standard set by your church?
Maybe I did not phrase the question correctly. Since you have been a Catholic how has your life changed? Better everyday is kind of vague.My life changes for the better everyday I persevere in His will, If I fall short and we all do, I repent and turn to him in the Sacrament of reconciliation, I am forgiven and reconciled in his love for me.
It is a Catholic statement, My hope is in the Resurection of my Lord and Savior
Presumption is a sin, Rock.
Would it had been a sin for the thief that hung next to Jesus to assume that Christ words to him were a promise? Why is it any different for us to when we trust in the same promises?