Trying one more time, hopefully, to be able to communicate without its posts being erased. Not sure what bes in the others what caused it to get removed but will try one more time....
First:
This is the vent thread. We are not supposed to advise unless asked. You asked, Moriah
Actually, it did not ask for advice. It asked for confirmation of what it knows to be the only truth left to it now. It wanted to see if anyone would really come forward and be honest about that, and acknowledge it. And in a sense, you did. See, while no one did so with words, in a kind of twisted sense, removing its posts provided all the confirmation it needed. Actions
do speak louder than words. If you lot did not accept the absolute reality of what it stated about itself, you lot would not have treated it as if those statements bes indeed absolute reality, and done so
for reasons specifically related to the truth of those statements.
Here is the problem that many people don't realize when they come to Christ: you are saved, but you still need to be sanctified.
This would be where we have a problem. If receiving salvation does nothing more than usher an individual back to the Law so they can put themselves back under its condemnation the moment they sin, then salvation has not really been a miracle of God, but just a trick or a ruse to get people to "be good or else". No hope exists in that thinking for those who CANNOT just "snap to" and "decide" to "make" themselves BE anything, let alone be "good" (obedient to God, not sinning, etc.) It realizes this bes not the forum to argue theology, so we won't go there, but suffice it to say Moriah has been hurt by what it calls "dumbo's magic feather" religion before. It will have a miracle from God -- rescue, salvation -- or it will perish, plain and simple. If any part of this depends upon Moriah then its doom bes secure and certain.
So this is what we have: two natures, one which God's, the other which is the old man. Which do you want?
Moriah does not get an actual choice. Sure it can SAY it wants this or that, anyone can, but that does not make it so. It has no ability to make it so, so therefore it has no real choice. And this, too, proves what Moriah tried to tell you that you erased.
An old Indian told a pastor that he had two dogs fighting inside of him, one evil, one good. The pastor asked which one was winning. "The one I feed," the old Indian said. As far as our two natures are concerned, we get what we feed. Your free will will never be taken away from you, and you will get what you feed.
That has no choice to feed one or the other, what bes the helpless prey of them both, and devoured whether it will or not.
Moriah, you have not lost your salvation. Your struggle now, I believe, is with you sanctification.
It believes you err, refusing to see the truth of its situation.
No one can tell you what to do, no one can make choices for you. You must decide yourself whom you will serve, and which nature you will feed. This is your choice. No one can take that choice away from you.
It has already been taken away. It has no choice. That does not mean it does not try to make choices. It means all those tryings bes to no avail because it has no control to make those choices BE anything REAL. And all its choices in the world do not control what God does, and He has forsaken Moriah utterly.
