That is your man made term that you created to prop up your man made doctrine.
I used scripture to back up my argument. The Bible talks about false apostles, false teachers, false brethren, wolves in sheep’s clothing etc.. which are (in name only) Christians, so the term "nominal" fits in describing such people.
The Bible was written to God’s people.
Yet not everyone who is being discussed in God's word are God's people, hence -
false apostles, false teachers, false brethren, wolves in sheep’s clothing etc.. So much for your man made doctrine.
All liars, Christian or otherwise will have their part in the lake of fire.
Christians are not seen in the eyes of God as liars, murderers, fornicators, thieves, extortioners etc.. because their
sins have been washed away by the blood of Christ (Romans 3:24-26; Ephesians 1:7) and their
faith has been accounted as righteous (Romans 4:5-6; Philippians 3:9).
1 Corinthians 6:9 - Do you not know that the
unrighteous (not the righteous) will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” Revelation 21:8
Descriptive of the
unrighteous/unbelievers.
Christians who are “in Christ” then later are removed from Christ, will end being cast into the fire and burned.
"Nominal" Christians are not in the body of Christ, but are "self attached to the vine." As Greek scholar AT Robertson points out -
Two kinds of connections with Christ as the vine (the merely cosmic which bears no fruit, the spiritual and vital which bears fruit). The fruitless (not bearing fruit, mh peron karpon) the vine-dresser "takes away" (airei) or prunes away. Probably (Bernard) Jesus here refers to Judas. - John 15:2 Commentary - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:6
The branches that bear fruit and remain are believers (like the remaining 11 disciples). The self-attached branches (cosmic connection) that bear no fruit and do not remain are not believers (like Judas Iscariot) and those who were offended by the words of Jesus and walked with Him no more (John 6:60-64). In John 15, Jesus mentions branches that
bear no fruit and branches that
bear fruit (verse 2) but Jesus says nothing about branches that bear fruit but then later stop bearing fruit.
When Jesus spoke these words in John 15, how many people at that time, prior to Him being glorified, had received the Holy Spirit and were baptized by one Spirit into one body? - "the body of Christ?" (1 Corinthians 12:13) -- NONE.
John 7:38 - He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom
those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. So "in me" is part of the metaphor of the vine, (in the vine) and not in the body of Christ under the new covenant which was not yet fully established. Without that vital union with Christ, there can be no spiritual life and no productivity. Those who profess to know Christ but whose relationship to Him is self-attached, Christ neither saves them nor sustains them. Eventually, the dead self-attached fruitless branches are cut off.
Here is how we are instructed to remain “in Christ”.
Those who remain demonstrate they have that vital connection with the vine. Those who fail to remain demonstrate they don't have that vital connection with the vine. The word "abide" is from the Greek word "meno" which means to remain, tarry, not to depart, continue to be present. This is not something that only elite saints do. 1 John 4:13 -
By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.. 15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us. 1 John 3:24
This is the
demonstrative evidence that we abide in Him. 1 John 2:3 - By this
we know that we have come to know Him -- (already know Him/already saved
/demonstrative evidence) if we keep (guard, observe, watch over) His commandments. The Greek word for "keep" is "tereo" (Strong's #5083) which means to guard, observe, watch over) His commandments. *Nothing here about salvation by works.
