Does God prefer one religious bent to another? Or is that about us?
As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"
As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"
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No one can know all there is to know. And although some of us may feel we know just about everything, we may not be correct in all of it. And there are saved believers (of maybe only a few day's knowledge of God) who know next to nothing — and a whole spectrum in-between.Does God prefer one religious bent to another? Or is that about us?
As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"
Wouldn't you say the question answers itself?As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"
As in.."I can believe anything I want based on a verse taken out of context"
are we judged by beliefs or by faith?
Wouldn't you say the question answers itself?
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That's called Reaction Formation.Which denomination of Protestantism protests the best or the most? I would think the better the protest the better the Protestant...since it is based on protesting.
Is it possible to protest too much? Like someone REALLY wants to deny he is gay?
(As in...thou doth protest too much
Overly insistent about something, to the point where the opposite is most likely true.
Someone emphatically stating how much one hates gossiping, that one would never engage in this sort of behavior. This implies that, "thou doth protest too much" and may in fact be a gossip.)
If there are no Catholics around...how protesting should a Protestant be?
Gee. I thought the idea was to stop reading into it all those things that were being told the people by those who wanted to continue to lord over them. So the reforming was to get what had become so riddled with error back to the truth of the Bible.The whole idea of being a Protestant is to read the bible the way YOU want...to reform it.
We are to be judged by our works.
But if we protest against God doing this...being protestants AND ALL...and enough of us do this...will that be enough to change the bible to suit or way of thinking?
Can the denominations stand one another long enough to protest God's ways together...so that God can line up with Luther?
Again, if no one is saved yet - your view, as I understand it - then no, none are more "saved", then, to you, correct?Are some denominations more "saved" than others? How about the ones that say it more often? Surely by saying over and over again..."I'm saved" you start to feel more saved. But what if you say it even MORE often? Surely God hears our conviction and the repetitions make it more so.
The idea is not to convince God of your salvation...but yourself. So then if you are judged by your beliefs...then if you hold those beliefs strongly enough...what can God do about it?Do you convince God with many many empty words? I don't think so.
Who is judged for beliefs? We are all judged for our works, not our beliefs.The idea is not to convince God of your salvation...but yourself. So then if you are judged by your beliefs...then if you hold those beliefs strongly enough...what can God do about it?
Now the bible does say that we can't have a private interpretation. But if we make our own interpretations public...then they're not private anymore are they?
So then by loopholes such as this we can find ourselves making the list in the book of life. We go AROUND the truth..instead of trying to confront the truth directly...and in this way we get into heaven by sheer belief in oneself and the ability to "make God not see us" and our true condition.
Like fresh snow on a dunghill as Luther put it.
No We do not.Do we consign people to hell from other religions at birth...