No, I'm not doing any such thing. I have never expressed my private opinions and pushed them as bible doctrines, but that's all you ever do.
I don't know what sect or cult you belong to, but I know that none of your claims can be supported by any scriptures. You have given me the historical gnostic interpretation of the scriptures, I never denied the fact that heretics have existed for the past 2000 years. The passage of time doesn't make lies become truth.
You have never showed me where I made any errors, yes you have disagreed with sound bible doctrine, based on you feelings and emotions but you haven't identified a single error, using scripture.
I get it, you hate the awful truth. You and most professing Christians do. The Lord Jesus is the truth, He said many would come to Him on judgement day saying Lord, Lord, but He will tell them I never knew you, depart from Me into the everlasting lake of fire.
Please find any errors and point them out to me and show the verse which contradicts what I claimed.
Lets take a look at what you believe, based on the ideas you have been stating in this thread. Two ideas, election of believers, and the idea that a believer cannot loose salvation. These two ideas only exists in a systematic theology known as Calvinism. Calvinism also has three other ideas that are essential to understanding his entire doctrine. Total depravity of man, limited atonement, and irresistible grace.
Historically, none of these have ever been part of the teaching of the Church from the beginning and since. Only one idea, election, a very simple concept written by Augustine, but was never taught by the Church, existed in some form earlier than Calvin who is a 16th century theologian.
If one holds to the idea that the Holy Spirit gives to each person individualized truth and that is why in Protestantism you can get hundreds, even thousands of truths, all making the same claim as you have been. Historically, any man who developed an idea that was not held, believed or practiced by the Church from the beginning ended up as a heretic and his ideas condemned. Yet you hold to some ideas that historically were developed by a man 1500+ years from the Apostolic times.
My question to you is, did the Holy Spirit change the meaning of the Apostolic writings in giving new inspiration to individuals? If so, then all of the men who originated these hundreds of denominations, all different is some way from another, still All Truth? Or can we just believe anything our little egos come up with on our own or adopt ideas from other men, long after the Apostolic times and call them the meaning of scripture?
Now, lets look at scripture and what beliefs that have been held from the beginning. Total depravity, Scripture says that every human being has been given the ability and capability to understand God. Rom 1:18-24. Every single human being, individually, based on their own choices will be held accountable to what they did with this knowledge, Rom 2:6-8, Rev 20:11-13. No election of believers. It is antithetical to who God is. One becomes an elect by belief, baptism.
Limited atonement. Impossible. If Christ assumed our human natures, and raised them to life, how can that be limited? Do we divide Christ? I Cor 15:21-22 clears that up. Irresistible grace. If God gives man free will to choose for himself who he will believe and follow, than it would be possible for a believer to reject God and leave the fold. There are approximately 200 texts in the NT that state this is possible. If irresistable grace is false, then perseverance of the saints is also false since the latter follows the former.
To hold your views, one must either deny most of scripture, or twist them by changing the meaning of words to align with a particular view,such as Calvinism.
By the way, the idea that a believer cannot loose his salvation is actually true but not the way you and others hold. Its true because scripture never states that a believer HAS salvation in the present of one's lifetime,. It all about losing faith! Salvation is inherited at the end of life. I Pet 3-5. And who gets that salvation? Those that endure to the end. What is enduring? Being faithful in one's commitment to love, serve Christ, to become imitators of Him. That takes effort, oh yea, works. See James 2:23-25.
Merry Christmas,
