Well, if we're throwing around Scripture quotes, let's look at that passage in Romans, where we find the following other criteria: "malicious, whisperers of gossip, proud, boasters, without understanding, without natural affection, implacable unmerciful."
Genesis 4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
Acts 10:34-35
34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35
But in every nation he that
feareth him,
and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Jesus said "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." And he said, "Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be meted out to you again." There are those who rightly point out that this is not prohibitory but monitory, noting that we are also commanded to judge righteous judgment. But with what righteousness?
Jesus is the Righteousness from God!
Romans 1:17
For therein
is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
ever ready to forgive and to love those who stand against him.
But, they must
repent, and turn to Him, otherwise they will have their share with those who burn in the Lake of Fire forever and ever!!!
Tell us what you know of receiving the image of God, the end being the Salvation of your soul, since you know so much!
I do not hate my brother! Why would you imply such a thing?
Because I said we aught to recieve the image of God in Christ Jesus? Becuase I quoted Scripture which says we aught to reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God?!? I want you to show me where I said, or even implied such a thing! Or else recant your judgment! I HATE SIN,
NOT THE SINNER!
Colossians 2:16-19
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and
not after Christ.
9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead
bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
11
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
It's not my place to judge. But it is my place to defend those they attack, and it is my place to warn. He who has ears, let him hear.
I am not judging a person, so it seems you have misconstruded my speach.. This is public justice! For if it was not rebuked here that we are not to walk after a FALLEN image, not receiving the image God has for us in His son, then so goes holiness, without which no one will
see the Lord!!!
And it is
not our place to defend, for the Lord
God,
HE is mighty to save.
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
It is our place to warn,
according to the buffetting of the Holy Spirit, however.
Anyone who thinks that he can go on in sin after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, being conformed to the image of Christ,
NOT HOLDING THE HEAD, has another thing comin, as Scripture
CLEARLY indicates.
Romans 6:1-16
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth,
he liveth unto God.
11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall
not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 13:11-14
11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. 14
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
