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chad kincham said: said:And that disproves a well known TV preachers teaching about the carnal Christian who can lead the most sinful life, indistinguishable from the lifestyle of the unsaved, and still be saved.
Like who? Seriously I'm wondering who teaches that on TV.
Well, like Charles Stanley to name just one.
For Charles Stanley says:
"Sometimes you and I may resort to looking and acting like we used to behave before we were saved, but just because we behave that way doesn't mean we have lost our salvation....But let's look at the Prodigal Son for just a moment.... So, here he is living in sin and his lifestyle is such that's absolutely wicked....Let me tell you something. When you are born again by the grace of Almighty God, and you become a child of God, you are born again. You become a new creation in Christ. You are adopted into the family of God. It doesn't make any difference how wicked and how vile you act....You never get away with sin. But it doesn't mean because you sin against God, God rejects you for your disobedience because in this story, God is pictured as running toward a backsliding son who came home to his father."
Charles Stanley says:
"And so, sometimes out of ignorance or whatever it might be, they attempt to gratify and meet those needs the same way they did before they were saved, and therefore, you can't tell a carnal believer from a lost man. That is, you can't tell the cold from the carnal because the truth is, they're both acting the same way. Now, one of them is in Christ and one of them isn't. One of them is lost and the other one is in Christ. One of them knows about God and knows him in the experience of salvation; the other doesn't know him at all."
And he is not the only one who teaches this. I can name a ton more who profess similar things. Most believe in a sin and still be saved type belief today. They think they will be chastised if they sin, and sin is no big deal. But in reality: The Bible talks about how living in sin brings spiritual death unless a believer repents or seeks forgiveness with the Lord and they strive to fight and battle in overcoming such sin (By God's power and might).
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