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One can be disqualified from a race for a variety of reasons. Not finishing is one of these. Another is to strive unlawfully (as in cheap grace).

IF we endure till the end THEN it comes to the quality of the salvation. In a great house there are both vessels of honour AND vessels of dishonour. Run to win. Persevere to make your calling and election sure. There is a salvation unto dishonour and shame. These are naked and blind....just...

As I lay down on my face, prod me back into the race... :) Amen. God is working in us...but it the shallowness of our own dedication that is in question. May we learn to persevere and dig deeper. May we learn to humble ourselves before the mighty presence of God....who desires to give us the...

I remember this commercial I saw once. In it, was a marathon where everybody went home except a few people. They were waiting to see if their friend was going to finish. After a long but indeterminate amount of time a lone man was seen slowly and painfully moving towards the finish line. He was...

Hey... :) Ok saw this... We are definitely talking of the condition of salvation according to calling and election. In a race there are both winners and losers. There are medals of honour for the first few places....and after most people have gone home...there are the stragglers that cross the...

Almost every day... :)

LOL...unforgiveness in us causes us to become unforgiven likewise. As in...forgive our debts AS we forgive others. Salvation is conditional and remains so until we leave this world. Many Christians are actually those who have stoney hearts in the parable of the sower. These receive the...

Indoctrination doesn't work that way, unfortunately. When a person latches on to a fable religiously... that fable becomes the template for everything that sounds like it. It's like Pavlov's dog. Talk about grace and watch the salivating... But an indoctrinated person can't examine what they...

As it seems to you in your opinion...from yourself. ;)

I think that kind of reasoning pre-supposes that we get a saved ticket that rules out any free will on our part. No one is eternally saved for all time until the race is finished in this life. Have you ever heard the story of the tortoise and the hare? Now, did the hare ever have the win? Or...

As we judge others....so we will be judged. We will all receive from God according to our works....especially after having received grace.

You read but you don't understand. What is faulty is your understanding. You are trusting your own mind.

That is a half-truth. And that is as close to the truth as I've seen you come to.

So then as long as I trust in the cure...the finished work of the cross...the wages of sin are no longer death? I can sin now and be at peace about it because that is no longer an issue? I can tell you where that gospel comes from...the tempter.

You are speaking of what Jesus did. Good. But then you always give only 2 options for believers....and both of these are in the power of the flesh. You neglect the actual working of grace...which is Christ in us empowering us to do as Jesus did. THAT is not in your equation. Your gospel has no...

The error is to ignore the truth in Christ for a misunderstanding of Paul. Jesus didn't point to Paul. Paul pointed to Jesus. Paul preached the same kingdom of God that Jesus preached. The deadly error of a cheap grace gospel will send people into outer darkness...not hell. Jesus was not under...

Amen. And the devil's specialty is on the subject of grace. People understand grace as God looking the other way when we sin...it His new found permissiveness towards sin in His people. Or so it is taught. But if God is happy to cover our sins and if that is what grace is...then how do we...

An apologetic to lead us away from the teachings of Jesus...and the true nature of the kingdom of God.

And it is also true that the devil is not what people think he is. He is far craftier than people think. Which leads back to the OP. How could people get God so wrong unless the lies were that well crafted?

These are tendencies. There are exceptions to these of course. Like the difficulty of a rich man to enter into the kingdom. Hard....but not impossible. :)