The fruit of the Spirit is joy, peace, love so relax! All things work to the good for the believer. You do not have to figure it all out, you surely will not, but love and believe! I just wrote this on my blog a couple of days ago. The Keys of the KingdomI haven't studied it, because I was just newly saved August 4th.
I didn't fully understand that God was actually 3 in 1 the moment I got saved.
It happened a week later.
Also I do not have the gift of tongues.
Some would tell me I must speak in tongues and most know everything.
Some would say that I didn't get saved until I got baptized. Or if I got baptized in the "wrong" church, I must find the "right church", then be baptized.
Some would say that I didn't get saved and it was all a mere emotional experience and I would have to wonder where God predestined me
It's driving me insane.
The fruit of the Spirit is joy, peace, love so relax! All things work to the good for the believer. You do not have to figure it all out, you surely will not, but love and believe! I just wrote this on my blog a couple of days ago. The Keys of the Kingdom
What do people say that will make you lose your salvation? That you don't believe in the heresy of Rapture? That you don't believe in the gift of tongues? That you are Roman Catholic or whatever?
You are part of your problem, and the answer is do not listen to nutty people.They are extremely vague, saying "yea, you can lose it somehow, we don't know exactly how though".
And I'm like well thanks, now I need to worry 24/7 like a Vietnam vet. (Sarcasm).
It's like if I make one minor mistake in ignorance then whoops I guess I lost my salvation forever and can't get it back.
Then it's just a constant stream of "if you don't, if you don't, if you don't".
Then add in another steam of it that contradicts all the other streams of "if you don't".
I just want to go to a Calvinist church and just let them teach me and not care anymore what anyone else has to say because I can't live like this anymore with constant condemnation.
No wonder why people fall away from the faith. Because people drive them absolutely nuts.
I don't know if there is a pre-trib rapture. God didn't tell me everything when I got saved.
I made some mistakes and got into some heresies when I was brand new....
That's was not what I was expecting, but many Christians make it sound so.
Like if I get deceived or fall down, God is just going to watch and laugh instead of point out my flaws and help me.
THIS is why I react so strongly to legalists who spread their filthy lies and thereby take the freedom in Christ away from the most vulnerable.
It is also why the "Lutheran" distinction between law and gospel is so fundamental to Christianity.
The truth is that as long as you are in Christ, you are saved. ALL your sins, past, present, future, were nailed to the Cross and the debt was paid in full.
Of course this doesn't mean that we should then just go on living in sin as if nothing happened. Anyone who does this is actually denying what they claim to believe, because no one can truly believe in the sacrifice Christ brought, and then proceed to spit in His face by adding to it.
Do note that "Living in sin" and "committing sins" are most decidedly NOT the same thing.
The long and short of it is this: The Greek text uses two different tenses of the verb "to sin". One - when it describes the temporary, the one-time-events (no matter how many of them there are - 1 or 1.000.000.000 makes no difference) and another when it describes life as such.
People who say that they do not commit sinful acts (meaning #1) are deceiving themselves. But Christians do not live in sin (meaning #2)
I hope that cleared it up a littleIt's getting late here, and I'm ESL so I might not be able to get out what I intend well enough
THIS is why I react so strongly to legalists who spread their filthy lies and thereby take the freedom in Christ away from the most vulnerable.
It is also why the "Lutheran" distinction between law and gospel is so fundamental to Christianity.
The truth is that as long as you are in Christ, you are saved. ALL your sins, past, present, future, were nailed to the Cross and the debt was paid in full.
Of course this doesn't mean that we should then just go on living in sin as if nothing happened. Anyone who does this is actually denying what they claim to believe, because no one can truly believe in the sacrifice Christ brought, and then proceed to spit in His face by adding to it.
Do note that "Living in sin" and "committing sins" are most decidedly NOT the same thing.
The long and short of it is this: The Greek text uses two different tenses of the verb "to sin". One - when it describes the temporary, the one-time-events (no matter how many of them there are - 1 or 1.000.000.000 makes no difference) and another when it describes life as such.
People who say that they do not commit sinful acts (meaning #1) are deceiving themselves. But Christians do not live in sin (meaning #2)
I hope that cleared it up a littleIt's getting late here, and I'm ESL so I might not be able to get out what I intend well enough
Is it normal to be fallible after being saved?
and the answer is do not listen to nutty people
Or if I got baptized in the "wrong" church, I must find the "right church", then be baptized.
It's like if I make one minor mistake in ignorance then whoops I guess I lost my salvation forever and can't get it back.
I just want to go to a Calvinist church and just let them teach me
I don't know if there is a pre-trib rapture. God didn't tell me everything when I got saved.
I made some mistakes and got into some heresies when I was brand new.
I'm getting antagonistic thoughts telling me that this fallibility means I am damned.
Well don't know what I could do or the right thing to do.
How do I know?
Do I need to get re-saved?
But I already believe the gospel.
So lost forever because I got deceived the very first week?
I don't know how it works.
All Christians are fallible.
The best way of coping with this fallibility is to join a church with a good pastor who will explain the Scriptures.
And your church should be part of a Bible-believing denomination, so that other pastors can check to see if your pastor makes mistakes.
That too.
But how do I know that's its a Bible believing Church?
And how do I know if he's teaching the right things.
People will have a problem if I learn from a Calvinist which I learned most of my theology from
I say that we are saved by Grace through Faith, and the Grace transforms us, there will always be a person who says I'm wrong for saying that.
I don't know if there is a pre-trib rapture. God didn't tell me everything when I got saved.
I'm getting antagonistic thoughts telling me that this fallibility means I am damned.
I haven't studied it, because I was just newly saved August 4th.
I didn't fully understand that God was actually 3 in 1 the moment I got saved.
It happened a week later.
Also I do not have the gift of tongues.
Some would say that I didn't get saved until I got baptized. Or if I got baptized in the "wrong" church, I must find the "right church", then be baptized.
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