@Jane_Doe22
@Taken
What is the purpose of the lake of fire? What does the scripture say happens to liars?
"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Rev 21:8
Do have a part of that lake for even one unrepented lie? Has anyone lied at all since they first believed and since they first repented?
I get your point.
However I do not understand as you do.
Speaking from a Hebrew/Jewish point of view, and "under" the OLD covenant, is one thing.
Speaking from a Converted man/ Jew or Gentile, and "under" the NEW covenant, is another thing.
So, addressing the New covenant, to which "I" am "under"... so also, is my understanding.
Sin, lies, cheating, stealing, divorcing, deceiving, leaving, etc. IS about the RELATIONSHIP, between "A" man and the "Lord God Almighty"... thee:
Lord - Jesus
God - Father
Almighty - Spirit
By and through, "A" man 'CHOOSING to "hear" and Become "enlightened", TO the Word of God...such man BECOMES "blessed"..
WITH MEASURES of "a gift of Faith" from God.
Such man WHO "chooses" to "CONTINUED" being "enlightened"...."CONTINUES" receiving
"A gift of INCREASED MEASURES of Faith" from God.
There IS NO "COMMITMENT" on the mans part.
At ANY TIME, the man CAN STOP "hearing", STOP being "enlightened", STOP receiving "Faith" from God.
^ THAT man, is called .... "Fallen Away from Faith".
^ THAT man, is warned .... he is in danger of "LOSING his SALVATION".
"His Salvation"? Yes.
"His Salvation, Because Salvation IS A GIFT,
"OFFERED" by Christ Jesus, TO THE WHOLE World, which the Whole World, is INCLUSIVE of every single man, Ever naturally born.
It is important to understand, the Gift of Salvation ..... IS OFFERED.
It is not a gift Forced, upon a man.
It is OFFERED.
Every Individual man, can Decide for himself, "IF" he desires to ......
"TAKE" the gift...Jesus has "OFFERED"...
OR NOT.
There is NO END to Jesus' "OFFERED" gift, for generation after generations of men who will be naturally born, that THEY ALSO, have right to "TAKE" Jesus' "OFFERED" Gift of Salvation.
"ONCE" "ANY" individual man "CHOOSES" to "TAKE" Jesus' OFFERED Gift of Salvation...
And that mans CONFESSION of TRUE BELIEF,
IN GOD, IN JESUS, the Son of GOD...
(in the mans natural spirit, in his heart....NOT the mans MIND)....
Thee "OFFERED" gift of Salvation, from God,
Becomes, RECEIVED, unto "THAT" individual man, ONCE and FOREVER.
That "RECEIVED" gift of Salvation; is Coupled with "OTHER" gifts, Also RECEIVED unto that individual man, at the SAME TIME....ie
Forgiveness for NOT having believed.
Forgiveness for the Flesh corrupting the Soul.
The Soul, restored to good, as when God gave it life, with His Breath.
A new circumcised heart.
A new truth written in the new heart. (Christ IS the Seed of God, the Word of God, the Power of God, Jesus; God in the Flesh).
The Seed of God planted in the mans new heart.
The Seed of God, RE-births the mans "natural spirit", (subject to death with its natural flesh); TO a 'supernatural spiritual spirit" (Never again, subject to death.)
The Holy Spirit of God, has brought (QUICKENED) the man spirit to everlasting life, (Via Gods Seed and Power) and His Holy Spirit is now IN and WITH the man Forever.
In short...this is called The Baptism of the Holy Spirit...an ACT of GOD, to and within an individual man, WHO Freely Chose to ACCEPT,
The OFFERED GIFT of SALVATION.
In short...this man is NOW called "CONVERTED".
A CONVERTED man IS FREED FROM....WHAT?
SIN.
What SIN?
The SIN...OF:
Rejecting God, Rejecting Jesus, Rejecting Belief, Lying to God, Cheating God, Deceiving God, Divorcing (leaving) God, backstabbing God, becoming Yoked with and Standing with, other gods", other beliefs....
It is an Established, Concrete, Impermeable and Never Ending....RELATIONSHIP formed between thee Lord God Almighty and that ONE Individual man.
That's That... and WHY an Individual man can SAY....ONCE he IS SAVED, it is FOREVER.
God is not a fooled. He does not GIVE His glorious OFFERED gifts, TO Con artists, who perform for an audience, (ie an alter call before a congregation) and tricks the audience into believing he is "Saved". (With his appearence and lying words of a confessed belief.)
While the congregation is ooohing and aaahing, watching a man speak the words "they" believe ....the Lord is searching the mans natural spirit's TRUTH, hidden in the mans heart.
Not a Secret, men are liars. Many a men have LIED to the Lord. And many "onlookers" have been Fooled. The "onlookers", MAY or MAY NOT, find out later, "they were Fooled", should the "LIAR" later "reveal" his own LIE,
That he made TO THE Lord, in "their" presence.
(There is a whole band-wagon of men who have LIE to the Lord, and are finding it "fashionable" in "these times" to come forward, confess their LIE, and low and behold, "they" have gained a group of FOLLOWERS" "LIKE THEM" !! )
While this is Brief...I know you do not care for long posts, which this seemingly is. Sorry, but necessary.
I am not A Hebrew or Jew. My SIN, was NOT the same as a Hebrew or Jew...as is theirs, according to their Laws...of relationships between a Hebrew/Jew and "God AND other men"
My Sin was NOT against "MEN" (for not having BELIEVED in Men)
My Sin was AGAINST God.
ONCE I Freely Chose to ACCEPT the Lord Jesus' OFFERED GIFT...
MY SIN AGAINST God, was FORGIVEN, Covered with HIS LIGHT, (which Overcomes the Darkness of SIN), and He MY GOD, remembers my SIN against Him...NO MORE.
And His, My GOD'S POWER within me,
KEEPS ME from EVER AGAIN being ABLE to COMMIT SIN AGAINST Him, MY Lord God Almighty.
Continued...
Taken