Wow......you just keep imploding and making things easier and easier for me as time goes by....trying to EARN Salvation , trying to JUSTIFY yourself before God and obtaining a
Christians do not justify themselves before God with obedience and good deeds....no one is implying this you are just making this up. Not that scriptures mean a thing to you.
James 1:22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
Luke 6:46“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?
John 14:23 "Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him."
Romans 6:16 "Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?"
John 14:21 "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
Luke 11:28 "But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
1st Peter 1:14 "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,"
2nd Corinthians 10:5 "We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,"
Romans 1:5 "Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,"
Acts 5:29 "But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men."
1st John 5:3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
Matthew 7:14-20 "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Particularly relevant to the OSAS heresy."
2nd Corinthians 2:9 "For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything."
John 15:10 "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love."
John 15:14 "You are my friends if you do what I command you."
Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Another scripture particularly relevant to the new age OSAS heresy.
Ephesians 6:6 "Not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,"
1st John 2:3-6 "And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked."
1st John 3:22 "And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him."
1st John 3:24 "Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us."
1st John 5:2-3 "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
James 1:22 "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing."
2nd Thessalonians 1:8 "In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus."
Philippians 2:12 "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,"
Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
Luke 6:46 "“But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?"
Matthew 7:20-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
So easy to prove you wrong with the Word of God....so obvious that you speak against the Word of God.
Obedience does not lead to salvation...those that believe in Christ are obedient.
PLEASE , PLEASE, PLEASE Newbies
How dare you speak to the newbies and try to damn the innocent!
As Paul said,we finish this Christian Walk the same way we started it—— FAITH! “From Faith to Faith” is how Paul put it......Did you get the Holy Spirit by being a “ good widdle boy”, or did you get it by Trusting God? Continue in the Way that you started....YOU provide the Faith and let God provide the Behavior as He changes your Heart from a Disobedient One into one that WANTS to please God....You can change the outward behavior that will please the self- Righteous Fruit Inspectors Of your Religious country club , but only God can Transform a Heart.....He will do it if you let Him.....it takes Faith....got any?
Again more false claims and accusations...the followers Christ do not think you are saved by obedience. But then again how could an actual believer of Christ, a follower of Christ speak against obeying Christ....Who would preach that obedience is such a little matter? By obedience we are known to be followers of Christ. And our allegiance is to who, if we denounce obedience and live according to the world of evildoers?
Sin and sin some more is a heresy. The belief that heaven will be full of evil is a heresy. OSAS is a heresy.
Be good and do good.