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Faith is the key. Assurance is a key theme in John's First Epistle. The true believer is not finally lost.
But as many as receive Him, believing in His name, to them He gave the right to be born again . . . born of God.
Put on the new man, which is created after God, in righteousness and true holiness.
If any be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away, Look! all things are become new! Now all things are of God . . .
Much love!
Yes, Hebrews 4:13. The Holy Spirit deals with us on the basis of our sins. But rhe Father sees us through rose-colored glasses, so to speak...He sees us through the shed blood of Christ.
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It is not our behaviour that we add, but rather a part of being saved is that we will not hide from the Lord as did Adam but we will be transparent before God.
Let me put it in different terms than before. Our relationship with God is secure as our position in Christ. Fellowship and connectedness, however, needs to be restored when we sin, because in Isaiah 59:2 it is evident that sin separates us from the Lord. Because relationship has more than one meaning. My relationship to God is that He is my Father and brother and bridegroom. But my relationship with God has to do with how I relate to Him. If I am hiding my sins from His light, then my relationship with Him is off-base. But my relationship to Him has not changed.
No, He see the blood of Jesus when He looks at us; which covers over all of our sins (Romans 4:7).
That's behavior. How you act. If you act (and to me this includes thinking, since that's something we 'do') in "hiding" way, or if you act in a "transparent" way.
Much love!
The Rich man was Jew. He died and ended up in torment. Once a child of God now in torment forever.(Luke 16)
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
1Co 9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
(KJV)
I think He sees us, and that He is fully involved with us in a real way. No pretending. No rose colored glasses. Only us, reborn, that is, begotten from God. He gave birth to us. He looks at us and sees His children, who share His nature. Just like in our first creation, our birth from the line of Adam, we shared his nature, now, being born from God, we share His nature.
So when God looks at us, He sees who we are, in reality, His children, righteous, holy, and living in a corrupt body of flesh.
Since He has justified us from our sins, we have no sin to get in the way. We are pure, because we are born from God. God does not birth corruption.
He shares our lives with us, and trains us in how to overcome that old man.
Much love!
I believe that the Father doesn't see our vile bodies and the indwelling sin that so easily besets us in temptation, when He looks at us in one sense; but in another sense He does.
He is not blind to reality; but on the other hand we are forgiven of all of our sins and He is going to remember them no more; and I think that He does this from the perspective of eternity.
I think He sees each part for what it is. And in the present moment.
I think God deals with me just as I am right now.
Much love!
I believe that God is outside of time and that therefore, He sees all things from the perspective of His position in eternity.
And of course He deals with each one of us on a moment-by-moment basis.
*Behold* has already outed himself as being very confused (while promoting spiritual confusion). I am glad we both agree on something that fundamental. If Pilate was around he would say "Behold the man who is confused".
That is "ecce homo qui est confusa".
No scripture to prove your opinion.
Simon obeyed the gospel just as the Samaritans (Acts 8:5,12,13).
Therefore if the Samaritans were saved so was Simon.
Peter would have never told a sinner to pray for forgiveness b/c God hears not sinners (Jn 9:31).
Joh 9:31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners:
Some did fall from the grace of God (Num. 14:12) (Gal.5:4) (Rev.3:5).
...I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,... (Rev. 3:5).
The above statement implies the Lord will blot out some names from the book of life.
Why were those names in the book of life?
B/c they were saved.
Who placed those names in the book of life?
The Lord did.
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