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Wrong ! you must abide in the Vine.Amen! Christ saves us through faith based on the merits of His finished work of redemption alone and not based on the merits of our works/performance/accomplishments. (Romans 3:24-28; 4:5-6; Ephesians 2:8,9 etc..) That's not hard to understand. It's just hard for many people to ACCEPT.
Those who teach salvation by works are not Christians. There are genuine Christians and there are “nominal” Christians. In regards to abiding in the vine, Greek scholar AT Robertson explains that there are - “two kinds of connections with Christ as the vine (the merely cosmic which bears no fruit, the spiritual and vital which bears fruit). The fruitless (not bearing fruit, mh peron karpon) the vine-dresser "takes away" (airei) or prunes away. Probably (Bernard) Jesus here refers to Judas..”Wrong ! you must abide in the Vine.
What you are doing is making a religious statement that is devoid of abiding in the Vine.
Such a one is not truly born again.
Anyone who claims anything done on their own merits is a fool ! such as that has nothing to do with Christianity at all.
Who ever brought such as that up must be ignorant to claim that any Christian would make such a claim, in regard to their own merit. who does that !
One must truly be born again to abide in the Vine, such a one is in the Kingdom of God.Those who teach salvation by works are not Christians. There are genuine Christians and there are “nominal” Christians. In regards to abiding in the vine, Greek scholar AT Robertson explains that there are - “two kinds of connections with Christ as the vine (the merely cosmic which bears no fruit, the spiritual and vital which bears fruit). The fruitless (not bearing fruit, mh peron karpon) the vine-dresser "takes away" (airei) or prunes away. Probably (Bernard) Jesus here refers to Judas..”
John 15:2 Commentary - Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament