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Jason, have a good meal.
May our Lord bless you.
In Christ
Daniel
Jim Jones believed he was perfect..it led to the sin you mentioned.Actually Jim Jones is closer to the belief in Eternal Security because he taught that you can sin (commit suicide) and still be saved. Today, various believers have already committed suicide with the thinking they are saved because of Eternal Security.
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Jim Jones believed he was perfect..it led to the sin you mentioned.
He didn't believe In Christ and Him crucified.
In Christ
Daniel
The idea that the primary difference between the saved and the unsaved is that the saved are 'sorry' for their continual sinning is rather lame - where is the power to deliver in such a belief ? Not that I have experienced a perfect walk with God to this point - but to accept sin as 'unavoidable' and to therefore (pretty much) be 'expected', sounds like - as 'believers' we're not actually saved from sin or delivered from the power of Satan, but still fail miserably...only we're sorry about it.
That's not deliverance, that's a watered down form of repentance. Godly sorrow leads to repentance...but it is not repentance itself.
Our falling away from the original meaning is seen in modern dictionaries where repentance is defined as feeling sorry for sin or wrongdoing.
But the root meaning of repentance is to 'think differently' to have a 'changed mind' - so we no longer then therefore think, speak, or act the same as before.
Whenever / wherever we think, speak, and / or act like 'the old man' rather than the 'new' such is evidence of unrepentance...and possibly the worst thing anyone can do (in such a state) is to rationalize it away, so that it can seem to be acceptable...closely followed by (basically just as bad) is to give up completely - because living right doesn't come easy.
Fight, fight, fight we have to fight against both these extremes - for both of them lead no where near to The Kingdom of Heaven / Kingdom of Overcomers.
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. <---> Revelation 3:5
And May The Lord Be Pleased !
Paul, mightily filled with the Holy Spirit said, in the present tense:Repentance is turning away FROM sin, and turning TO Christ. Without Christ giving us His Spirit, it would be hard not to turn back to the sin. But with the power of the Spirit it is easy. He does all the heavy lifting.
Paul, mightily filled with the Holy Spirit said, in the present tense:
The letter kills
He was referring to the TC
Read my following postIf you notice, I was talking Spirit, not letter.
Read my following post
Pray for enlightenment concerning it#590? What about it?
If it is easy not to sin.
It is easy never to get angry when you are having a bad day
It is easy never to have unkind thoughts about anyone.
It is easy never to have impure thoughts.
It is easy to faultlessly love all those you meet. Including those who malign, persecute, abuse and mistreat you etc.
Gaga land if you ask me
Superfluous/ shallow thinking
Pray for enlightenment concerning it
LIf it is easy not to sin.
It is easy never to get angry when you are having a bad day
It is easy never to have unkind thoughts about anyone.
It is easy never to have impure thoughts.
It is easy to faultlessly love all those you meet. Including those who malign, persecute, abuse and mistreat you etc.
Gaga land if you ask me
Superfluous/ shallow thinking
You could always address what i wrote!8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
I'm sure the discerning will understandSorry, still can't read your mind.
L
You could always address what i wrote!
You think not?About your theory that charismatics and the RC being alike? Not.
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