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Yes, that's what Jesus would do. The Golden Rule. Love your trolls. Pray for them that despitefully troll you. Or just treat them with the maturity you think they deserve. The choice is yours. How does it feel to get some of your own medicine?
No, because there is no law that fallen man can keep. The righteousness of the law is completely contrary to the nature of man. The problem was with man, not with the law. Christ proved that by the simple fact that he is a man who kept the law.
It is not for me, not because I am osas or nosas or whatever term people use, but because it simply is not.
Let’s trust one another. When you say you consider 1 John 2:19-24, I trust you did. So, perhaps you could do the same when I say I did. The point is, even while we say we do that and tell one another to do that, we apparently have a different reading of scriptures. That’s why we have discussions such as this.
How does believing in vain change the fact that you have to hold firmly to the word of the gospel to be saved?
Okay, whatever, lol. There's just some things that aren't open to debate. This is one of them. But you are certainly free to think Luke 13:24-27 is not a parallel passage to Matthew 7:21-23 if you personally want to do that.
I almost included "except the law of faith" in my post. Good insight on your part.
Almost. I'm saying Jesus could be referring to people who had a relationship with Him at one time, just not ever an intimate knowing relationship, but who clearly don't have any relationship with him now, having fallen away into lawlessness, and so they will be condemned when He returns.
I'm saying if Jesus is talking about people who he never knew intimately he would be talking about immature babes in Christ who did not have an intimate relationship with Him and fell away into lawlessness as a result. I say that because the Parable of the Sower says it is the immature believer that does not retain the word of God in them and does not bring it to fruition in perseverance. In that parable, perseverance in the word in salvation is an attribute of mature, obedient, fruit bearing believers, not every single believer as Osas teaching says.
Notice the promise is to those who believe in him, not to those who don't. Unbelievers, whether they never believed or stopped believing, do not inherit the promises of God. The promises of God are addressed to believing people. Even the original Osas believed that much! You'd be better off just going back to the original teachings of Osas. Even it understood that you had to keep believing in order to be saved.....
