Than why is it you insist on condeming yourself and others if you are free. Are you free or not?? That is the question, Either He died for your sins and teh work is complete, or Eh did not and nothing is finished.
Joh_19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
done complete nothing left to do.
I know that I have concentrated on the sinful part of us, probably more than what would be normal when writing to Christian believers; but it is because much of the modern preaching of the gospel to the unsaved describes God as a loving God and a Jesus who wants people to accept Him so He can be their friend, and that He will give people a happy, prosperous life, and we will ride the religious ra ra ra bandwage until we get to glory with no judgment, no accountability, and the judgment seat of Christ will be where Christians will get their "Sunday School prizes" from Him.
When I was a Christian worker in a 1970s coffee bar ministry which conducted summer holiday outreaches in our coastal cities where people went for holidays, we found that although we got multitudes of decisions for Christ, but found six months later only two or three were found in fellowship in any of the churches in that city or anywhere else. I found this very discouraging, and wondered if all the time, cost, and effort was just a waste of time, and it was just a hallelujah hootenanny fest for Christians.
Then I found that that a crusade conducted by a prominent evangelist in an Australian city achieved 280,000 decisions for Christ, and a short time later, discovered that just 14,000 actually joined and remained in churches as solid church members. This amounted to just a 5% success rate, after hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in setting the stadium and land-line venues all around the country.
Then I discovered that these converts were not fully informed that they were sinners and were in danger of the judgment. It was not demonstrated why and how they were sinners, and so for many of them, adopting Christianity was joining a religious "club", but when thing went to custard in their lives, they realised that they weren't given all the facts. They weren't told that they would be hated, rejected, persecuted, and even killed for their faith. They weren't told that employers would reject their job applications, they would be passed over for promotion, just because they were Christians, and if they tried to share the gospel with others they would be spat on, had objects thrown at them, and even physically assaulted.
So they decided that they didn't want this type of Christianity, and if they couldn't have the fuzzy, lovey dovey type where everyone loved and respected them for their clean, law-abiding lives, they dumped their new found faith and went back to their former lives.
So, this is why I have been very adamant that we are not good people, and that without Christ we will be found guilty in the judgement and be sentenced to God's eternal prison without parole. So before we turned to Christ, we were condemned, and the person who gave us the gospel and led us to Christ should have been honest and clear about that. It is only when the unsaved know beyond doubt that they are condemned to be damned to hell because of their badness, they will never see the gospel as good news.
Those who are pricked with the conviction of sin in their hearts will be the ones who will embrace the gospel, turn to Christ and become solid church members bearing much fruit for the Lord.
I know that some on this forum have been offended by my insistence on knowing that there is no goodness in them that would commend them to God, and that there is just one "parachute" that will save them from falling right down into the bottomless pit of hell. That parachute is Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
If an airplane that is about to crash and the pilot tells passengers to put on their parachutes so they can jump to safety, there will be some who won't believe the pilot and think he is just scare mongering them and so when the plane crashes they will crash with it. But the ones who are convinced of their danger, and put on the parachute, when it comes times to jump, they will trust the parachute and jump to safety.
Unsaved people are in terrible danger. They don't know how bad they are, and the horrible consequences that they will face when they come up for judgment. We all have to die. It is an appointment we will have to keep, and the judgment will come after. Those who realise their danger, and take hold of Christ with all their hearts, will be the ones who put on the parachutes and know that they will be safe.
It is not enough to believe the parachute can save them. Just like so many people who believe that Christ died on the cross but did nothing about it. They have to "put on" Christ by sincere faith and trust in Him, the same way a airplane passenger has to put on his parachute in order to be able to jump safely. Depending on ones good deeds to get them to heaven is like the passenger who jumps without a parachute and trust that if he waves his arms he will land safely, and he will only realise that it didn't work when his face hits the ground at terminal velocity.