@Episkopos Epi, you keeping opening the door for this type of reply... I must tell you what I keep seeing, again. This is truth I bring from my spirit....I did not want to, although I was compelled to do this.
Liz, it's a shame that Epi is yet again defiant, without either improving or gently correcting your words if he thinks they are incorrect. This can produce edification and mutual understanding. Unfortunately, he continues to increase and maintain strife within the Body. It serves no useful purpose, only to inflate his own ego I'm afraid. And he is usually wrong in his views anyway, also of my opinion.
Just reread his first part of his reply to you...
He quoted Isaiah and by deliberately not revealing the words of that particular scripture, that would convey some concern for your view. And he really is not concerned in what you say at all, anyway. And then, as usual, he attacks with inflammatorily broad brushing words to separate who he considers his usual serfs of ignorance, of his manor, or in this thread of his, in this case.
Look how he replied again...
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Read Isaiah 61:1 Does it say that Jesus came to forgive sins?
People want unconditional forgiveness based on lip service and religious beliefs. But people will be judged for what they did. If they lied about God they will be rejected from the kingdom. Yet people will wipe their mouths and say...we have done no iniquity. The condemnation of these is just.
You are not used to hearing he gospel. You are not used to hearing the words from the Lord.
..just man-made interpretations that misrepresent God and the gospel.
The evangelical scheme is that God is big and mean...and everyone needs for Jesus to protect them from big ole mean God.
That is a total fiction ...God is love, and He loved the world. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
You have not yet figured out how deep you are invested in fables."
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'See' how he immediately he condemns and accuses you like a child seeking revenge? To you and others as part of the unenlightened...
He said:
People want unconditional forgiveness based on lip service and religious beliefs. You are not used to hearing he gospel. You are not used to hearing the words from the Lord...just man-made interpretations that misrepresent God and the gospel.
The evangelical scheme is that God is big and mean
-And then some folks actually encourage him and these type of words with a 'like' or a 'love' .....astonishing-----------------------------
The Time of the Lord's Grace.....
(Isa 61:1) The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
Now where is the works judgement part in Isaiah 61:1? It is not there at all. Epi is too focused on another thought completely.
Now if Epi was heartfelt for your concern regarding the gospel in which Christ came to atone for our sin, to redeem us,
to save us, by shedding his blood in his death, and in his resurrection; and therefore caused the opening of the 'flood gates' for one to have their sins forgiven, he would have said so. His heart was not there to do this imo.
And he also could have used Isaiah 61: 1 to actually support your points, in why they are critical to your salvation, that Christ ultimately went to the Cross, for you and him. To come to God with contrite heart and with saving faith for the forgiveness of sin. And in Isaiah 61:1 it was foretold, about the gospel of salvation of forgiveness of sin and by this act of self sacrifice, by the Son of God, of his Father, YHWH.
And when you quoted Mat 26:28 "This is
my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." I readily understood it. And it supports Isa 61:1 entirely. In Isaiah, it does not not spell out the words of Mat 26:28 although in spirit and intent it definitely does. And even your other verse support this same thought.
So, why is Epi so defiant, and how long can he keep this defiance up against the Body...? He is the only one that can answer that..not you or I.
I pray for you Epi that you see a way to still show your doctrine, in love and patience, with kinder words for true concern toward others...amen