What we need are more people who are intolerant of lies - and not wishy-washy in their convictions.
What we need more of is UNDERSTANDING!
Scripture is FULL of:
MEN..Flat out rejecting God.
MEN..who learned, believed, trusted the Lord.
MEN..teaching about the Lord.
MEN...who were Learning about the Lord.
MEN...deciding to believe or not in the Lord.
MEN...who listened, followed, then stopped.
MEN...who believed but didn't yet Trust.
MEN..who believed but had not committed.
MEN...who were being taught how to Trust.
Today is no different.
EXCEPT THAT:
MEN...in Scripture teaching were armed with the TRUTH.
MEN...today teaching are OFTEN armed with opinions and LACK of UNDERSTANDING!
The Scripture IS FULL of all different individual men....AND NOT ALL THINGS in Scripture APPLY the same to EVERY MAN.
The MAN who rejects God, who doesn't trust, God, who believes BUT has not become Converted, ARE not the SAME as a man WHO Believes and HAS become forgiven, saved, born again, made Whole, and acceptable to God.
The SAME Scriptures DO NOT APPLY to ALL men!!!
It does NOT MEAN ALL SCRIPTURE IS NOT TRUE. ALL Scripture IS TRUE. BUT NOT ALL SCRIPTURE APPLIES THE SAME TO ALL MEN.
YOU apply to you, what you have been taught.
Others, such as myself, APPLY to myself, according to WHAT I have DONE, and what I TRUST the Lord has accomplished IN ME.
The SAME Scriptures DO NOT APPLY to you and to myself.
You honestly believe YOUR Salvation will be accomplished at the end of your physical life.
That you MUST accomplish certain WORKS to receive YOUR Salvation.
That IS precisely taught in Scripture BY "GOD" the father; and APPLIES to Jews....then and today.
I however DID not SUBJECT myself to thee JEWISH GOD, the "FATHER". I subjected myself TO: Jesus, the Lord, the Son of God, thee Christ, thee Messiah of God the Father.
He; Thee Christ the Lord Jesus; OFFERED Jews and Gentiles a WAY, to BECOME Forgiven, SavED, Born Again, and Freed FROM SIN....FOREVER, being Kept WITH "HIM"!!
I accepted HIS OFFERING!
I subjected MYSELF "TO" HIM.
I TRUST His Word IS TRUE, without question.
So ALL the Scriptures YOU run and grab THAT APPLY TO YOU.....DO NOT APPLY TO ME!
It does not MAKE you right and everyone else wrong and a liar.
It simply MAKES OUR Choices DIFFERENT, and the Applicablility of Scriptures DIFFERENT.
Jesus DID NOT DESTROY THE LAW. Jews today STILL (not all), subject themselves TO God the Father, and reject Jesus is the Lord and Christ Messiah. They STILL sin, they repeatedly require forgiveness. They WORK their way TOWARD Salvation.
You teach the same things.
But unlike you, SOME People have Subjected themselves TO the TRUTH, who IS Jesus Christ the Lord, and TRUST, a Conversion Accompolished BY HIM, IS Accomplished, according to HIS WORD.
Accept it! You make your choices, as does everyone else. And "Scripture dictates the results" of an individuals choices, not you.