I am sorry that you are so upset with me. I just believe for myself that we need t live holy lives. Its not something that works can do it is an inside job. The word of God clearly states that sin will not enter the kingdom of God and that holiness is required! Your works don't get you into Heaven but your works show forth what you store up in your heart and who you believe in. Why are you so against living holy and against people who strive to live holy? i did not insult anyone about their sin I sin every day! But I strive to live holy for God! What scriptures can you find that says that God does not want his people to live holy?
First of all, I am not upset with anyone. You can believe what ever you wish.
Second, do you really think your flesh becomes sinless and enters into heaven?
Your teaching that a person must become sinless in the flesh in order to get into heaven shuts the door on those who realize that they need Jesus' blood to cover their sins everyday, everyhour. It leads to a theology of becoming good to get into heaven.
Let me show you how your religious theology affects many.
It has been my lot to find out, first hand, the results of those that teach sinless perfection in the flesh. How it causes many to turn away from Jesus.
A tragic story:
When I was about 25 years old I worked for a factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. One night when I was working the third shift the security guard came and told me that a man was at the gate wanting to talk to me.
It was a fellow worker at the plant who worked on the first shift and he was very distraught about Christianity. He said he wanted to be a Christian but it just didn't seem to work for him. It did not seem to change him.
I found that he had been talking to some Christians that were telling him that if he was a Christian he would stop sinning. He wanted to stop sinning but he said he couldn't because he still had those fleeting thoughts of sin in his mind and, of course he was told that if you think it you have done it in your mind. He wanted to know what I believed about it.
I told him that Jesus came to save those that could not save themselves; to do for them what they could not do, that to believe in Jesus is to believe in what He did on the cross and to trust that it has saved you.
I also told him that I still sin (I was being honest) and that everyone sins. He said what he had been told by other Christians, that if he sinned he was not a Christian and that I must not be one either since I said I still sinned. A week later this young man killed himself.
It is obvious that this young man had emotional problems. It is also obvious that the Holy Spirit was convicting him of his sins so that he would turn to Jesus. But I saw, first hand, what the message of the self-righteous does to those that are seeking to be a Christian. They don't go in themselves (because they still sin too) and they prevent others that would go in from doing so, all because they want to see themselves as better, and more righteous, than others.
Matt 23:11-13
11 "But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 "And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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If I show anything to the world let it be the love of Jesus Christ for mankind and what He has done on the cross for all that will place their trust (faith) in Him.
But the religious want to make a show that they do not sin any longer.
Now if you wish to say that I should have told him I no longer sinned in the flesh because God has changed me, then I would be bearing false witness just as those that did it to him and those that do it today.