Either way an evil system is being instituted.
I believe all people, regardless of race or nationality, creed or denomination, are human beings, and I am
also am a human being. To label sin as sin stated in Scripture is in
no way attacking the [a] person, it is
pointing out sin, plain and simple.
To take a rebuke of sin as an attack on the person is error.
For we are called as Christians to rebuke those walking after their flesh,
for thier sin.
And should they
repent, are
welcome back with open arms!
Therefore, it is not the person who is being demeaned, but the
act of sinning! For if it was 'they', 'they' would not be welcomed back.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
If we take the above verse of Scripture as an attack on our person, then we would
never stop sinning, for we would construde our Heavenly Father as a tyranical leader, who sets down a law that is contrary to our nature. But God did not create us contrary to Himself! He breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living soul! We are made in the image of God from birth, and when we chose to sin, that image became marred and we became slaves to sin! But God made a way out through Christ, who, by faith on His Name, we can be cleansed of sin! We must believe He has died for our sins, and rose for our justification in order to be born again. After being born again we have a choice, moment by moment to
FORGO OURSELVES, take up our cross and follow Him! 'Ourselves' died with Christ on the cross, and to hold on to ones old self is necromancy, which is a sin stated plainly in Scripture.
We can come before God with a clear conscious only so long as we hold to the faith of Christ as our Life. And the Bible is made so that we may know what He is like. What He is like is plainly stated in it's pages, through the Law, the Prophets [veiled] and the Testimony of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament [unveiled].
Sin is BAD for us!
It not only separates us from our God, but it actualy
hurts us!!!
John 5:14
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
My steadfast refusal to sin doesn't mean I'm any better than the person who so choses to sin, for I too chose wrongly and SIN at times. I do not think any less of
the person for committing the sin. I believe the person is in
need of repentance which is only affected by the Love of God in Christ Jesus!
Jesus speaks thus;
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Which Life, we, as regenerate or NOT, are able to receive by Grace through faith, because He died for mankind. That Life, the Eternal Life of God does not change according to neither the whim nor the desire of the individaul being possessed of it [Him]. It [He] is the Eternal, unchanging Life of God! Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, which also was pointed out plainly from Scripture earlier.
As we subject ourselves, by faith, to Christ as our Life, we are infilled in the soul by the Holy Spirit, and Christ then Lives through us.
Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
He does not sin! He is not a sinner! He does no sin! He does not allow sinful thoughts to permeate His mind, even though they come at Him! He does
not give in to temptation, but rather, relies on His Father to overcome in and through Him.
John 9:4
I must work the works
of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
He is a human being, not a human doing!
As
were we, but
we sinned, and now we are in need of being infilled by the Life of Christ on a moment by moment basis. And as He fills us with His Holy Spirit through yeilding to Him unto Life, He Lives through us to the Glory of God the Father! And He shall heal us, conforming us back into the image of God that we marred by sinning, progressively.
Romans 2:6-11
Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.
Question please;
Are you of the 'Wesleyan Methodist' denomination?
http://users.tpg.com.au/sarina21/challenge/1john5.html
Blasphemy! Oh fool, how are you going to escape hell? You claim that you are a follower of Christ but you act as if you never knew Him. You ignore the Holy Scriptures and believe what Satan has taught you. REPENT!!! And ask God to save you. It's your only escape from damnation.
