Shunned

[soldier of light]

Sorry you feel this way; it seems you are taking credit for your own holiness and missing who actually justified you and who sanctified you. We are all sinners, we are only saints because of Jesus Christ. As Luther stated it: “Simul justus et peccator”; saint and sinner at the same time.

Apparently I must be a sinner and engage in divisions so I'm not too holy. I'm a loner. People have always rejected me and my beliefs. It's not my fault I walk alone.that's holiness. I feel like the saint who walks alone that A.W. Tozer talked about. Some people no doubt find me disssagreeable. What fellowship is possible then?

 

[Ain't Zwinglian]

I find Lutheran monergism to be distinct from Calvinist monergism

I am not sure I agree with this. Rather than "distinct" they are too "similar" to make a distinction....if that is even possible.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

My example of holiness?

Yes, the separation from sinners; you shun them.

 

[soldier of light]

Yes, the separation from sinners; you shun them.

As we are taught to. God said to come out from among them and to be separate. I shun their ungodly politics, speech, entertainment, dress, divisions, and their counsel.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”

Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

As we are taught to. God said to come out from among them and to be separate. I shun their ungodly politics, speech, entertainment, dress, divisions, and their counsel.

2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”

Psalms 1:1 Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
3 He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Jesus said to the Father in prayer, "I am not asking you to take them out of the world ... As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." Thus we understand that our mission is to draw worldly ones to Christ and teach them what he teaches us.

 

[soldier of light]

Jesus said to the Father in prayer, "I am not asking you to take them out of the world ... As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world." Thus we understand that our mission is to draw worldly ones to Christ and teach them what he teaches us.

You cant teach them if you act like them. Peter said a shepherd doesn't Lord over others but he leads by example.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

You cant teach them if you act like them. Peter said a shepherd doesn't Lord over others but he leads by example.

Who do you think is lording it over others?

 

[soldier of light]

Who do you think is lording it over others?

My point was about being an example