Our beliefs are INTERPRETATION of the Bible, which does not necessarily matches up with what the author meant.
And so then why get angry over the opposition to your position on something when both of you just have your own interpretations?
Everyone has a right to their own interpretation. Why should they take yours (or someone's) over their own?
Maybe it's time to change an interpretation of a certain verse that has been interpreted incorrectly for the last 100 or 200 hundred years.
What people follow is not the Gospel Truth exactly, but different interpretations of the Gospel Truth.
THAT IS the reason why there are so many denominations. (aka: different variations of the same belief)
I agree that we cant attain salvation without Gods grace. I also agree that God has called us to do things our self, using His strength i guess. I know we are not perfect as soon as we come to Christ but we seek perfection in what God asks of us. To think its an easy process where we are not called to give things up and struggle seems unrealistic. We are given rules to live by, we are exhorted to obey them, im not concerned with why we are to obey them, i just know i am supposed to obey, i pray and Hope in Jesus, i want to obey what the Lord and His apostles teach us.
I have the ability to control my tongue for example. I sure ain't perfect at it, but i try. God directs me and strengthens me, but i don't get anywhere without first trying.
1Pe 3:10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
1Pe 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
1Pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Heb_13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
1Pe_1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Php 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Php 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Php 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
Php 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Php 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Php 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Php 3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
Php 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Php 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.