You've been doing the same to me.
I have accused you? If I have then I apologize; but where and when did I accuse you (please use the quote feature)?
Um, aren't you rather using this OT covenant passage to define the terms of the NT? That's how it seems to me.
Yes, that is what I am doing.
It should be clear that the OT is profitable for doctrine (2 Timothy 3:16)
Question . . . should a repeat child molester be in charge of children's day care once he's released from prison? Under any circumstances?
If that child molester were redeemed and gone to heaven, then that tendency to sin in that manner is gone. He can faithfully be in charge of children's day care in heaven; and such a thing would be a glory to the Lord; a testimony to the work of grace in that person's heart.
As concerning lesser sins, the person does not have to go to heaven in order to be restored.
Look at the word. There's your answer. Metanoia = aftermind = result of having exchanged the mind = ceasing from the mind of the flesh, and having the mind of Christ.
This a much different thing than someone stopping committing a sin.
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So, just to be accurate, you are teaching that repentance (away from sin) is not necessary for salvation.
What is your take on Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:41, and Matthew 13:41-42?
Not to my reading.
Repentance is not the gospel that the apostles preached. It is what the apostles tells people to do.
What did Jesus preach in Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:41, and Matthew 13:41-42?
It seems to me that if you don't repent of being a worker of iniquity, you will be cast into the furnace of fire. Because every man is born dead in trespasses and sins.
Do you consider that as good news (gospel)?
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I wasn't talking to you.
In the NT, using metanoia, it's a word speaking of not changing one's mind, but exchanging it. Rather then the "stop doing this and start doing that" of the OT, it's more, trade in your old mind for a new mind, and now we have new minds.
That actually makes my point. By your estimation, in the NT, repentance has to do with what the Lord said in Ezekiel 36:25-27. If you read that passage, you will see what it is that entails NT repentance; exactly what I have been saying.
The fact is "your works" don't matter, not one bit, your works add not one dot to your salvation. Jesus came to do His fathers will not His own,
The works that I do are the works my father gave me to do.
You know how many "Christians" <fify> run around dong works and are completely outside the will of God, you know that bit , we did this and e did that in your name, and He says depart from you workers of iniquity..
Actually, they may have been doing works completely inside the will of the Lord; but they go to hell because they were practicing iniquity on the side.
The only “ act” that will lead to death is to reject the Gospel Of God’s Grace.....( 1Cor15:1-4 )
That is clearly a false statement.
See Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:41, and Matthew 13:41-42.
We have only to read Paul’s exalted description of the Ten-Commandment law to recognize that those eternal principles were never blotted out or nailed to the cross.
They are indeed abolished (Ephesians 2:15-16) and nailed to the Cross (Colossians 2:14); just as concerning condemnation; not as concerning the fact that the law remains as a governor in our hearts through the Holy Ghost shedding abroad His love in our hearts (which fulfills the law).
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