Well, making it personal is a standard tactic by those who hold to your belief. If your belief cannot be supported with Scripture make it about the individual instead.
It is written,
5 "Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house." (Micah 7:5-6).
Also, the forum rules encourage so as not to cause heated debate that we are not to address the poster or the individual, but we are to stick to the topic with Scripture.
In addition, would you believe me if I told you about my life? Well, trust needs to be earned. I confide in those who believe the Word of God as I do. Furthermore, it does not matter if most of the whole world was not living correctly. God's Word is still the standard and the standard is not my life alone. God destroyed an entire world with a global flood except for eight people. We walk by faith and not by sight. I am not above God's Word in what it says anymore than you are. If the Bible tells me to be ye holy, that is something I have to accept (Whether I like it or not). Personally, I believe you have your priorities wrong. You appear to be allowing outside experience to rule your judgment instead of seeking to obey God's Word. For you automatically assume I am doing the wrong thing when you do not know me or my life. Do you honestly think Enoch lusted after women all the time, and yet the Lord took him whereby he did not see death? How about the 144,000? Do you think they lusted after women?
The problem with your belief is that it means you cannot accept the plain words of Jesus Christ in Matthew 5:28-30.
Jesus says that we not only have to receive Him, but we have to receive His words, too. For Jesus says in John chapter 12,
“He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” (John 12:48).
So Jesus says here that if we do not receive His words, those words will judge us on the last day. However, I know that most in the Belief Alone camp do not accept His words in Matthew 5:28-30. They either say it is a metaphor, or Jesus was trying to make a point in how we cannot keep God's laws, and or this only applied in the Old Covenant.
This is simply a false accusation. I said nothing of the sort.
You just assumed the wrong thing about me.
I am sorry. But I do not think you understand what 1 John 1:9 is really saying. You want 1 John 1:9 to say that you are already forgiven before confessing your sin. But 1 John 1:9 says IF we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Sorry. I already pointed it out to you that they did wonderful works in His name. Doing works is not the problem that Jesus had with them. You forget that John 5:29 says, “And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” Jesus told them to depart from Him because they worked iniquity.
Matthew 7:23 KJB says,
“And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Iniquity is sin. So sure, they did works. OSAS and Belief Alone Proponents believe in doing works. But the problem is justifying sin. That is something our Lord cannot agree with. Can I prove that iniquity is talking about disobedience to Jesus (i.e. sin)? Yes, I can. Just look at the context. The context does not talk about their failing to believe in the finished work of Christ. No, no. Most certainly not. The context of Matthew 7:23 is Matthew 7:26-27.
Matthew 7:26-27 says that everyone who does not do what Jesus says is like a fool who built his house upon the sand, and when a storm came, great was the fall of that house.
To drive this point home even more, Matthew 13:41-42 says that the Son of Man will send forth His angels and they will gather out of HIS KINGDOM anything that
offends (i.e. makes to stumble into doing sin), and those who do iniquity and they will be cast into the
furnace of fire (i.e. the Lake of Fire).
So a person can be in Christ's kingdom, and later cast out because they justified sin.
Yes, we are initially and foundationally saved by God's grace. But grace is not a license to sin (Jude 1:4). Paul says that if any man does not agree with the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine according to godliness, they are proud and they know nothing (1 Timothy 6:3-4). James 4:6 says that God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. For naturally a person who justifies sin is being proud. The Bible teaches to live holy, and not unholy.
“For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.” (1 Thessalonians 4:7).
But...
“Let favour be shewed to the wicked,
yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.” (Isaiah 26:10).