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Simple and to the point, awesome, unrepentant sinners in the body of Christ gets tossed to the curb.
Hmm.. my dog treats people much better than your God treats us. Something's amiss
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Simple and to the point, awesome, unrepentant sinners in the body of Christ gets tossed to the curb.
Hmm.. my dog treats people much better than your God treats us. Something's amiss
I am a firm believer that grace covers all sins of the flesh. That is what I get when i read the entire NT and not just a few cherry picked verses. And I muat admit that I don't like it nor understand it.
Kind of...
When I say grace covers all sins of the flesh, folks tend to scrape the bottom of the barrel. They will go to rape, murder, pedophilia and homosexuallity in the most perverse form. No, I don't understand why some of these things are forgiven. I certainly don't wqnt to forive them in the flesh.
However, Jesus, Paul, John and James (the half brother of Jesus) all in one wat or another said if you are guilty of one point of the law, you are guilty of the whole law.
Jesus even said if you so much as think to sin, you are just as guilty.
But look at Romans 5. Paul said that the law entered, that the offense might abound... This telks me that the Law was given to show we can't be perfect like God (in the flesh).
But then I read 1 Corinthians... Peopke should read the whole letter and not post quips of it. Paul, a champion of grace, was really upset with them concerning them pushing the limits. He basically said, "yea... All things are lawful for us, but that doesn't mean we shoyld do them because they don't bring glory to God! Now jnock it off, quit using your grace for a cloak of maliciousness and don't put up with those who do!"
That's what Paul was saying and it fits perfectly with what Peter said.
By God's grace, I believe I can rob a liquor store, run from the cops and die jumping off a building while trying to get away from them. But I will still be a criminal who dies committing suicide. I will bring reproach to my wife and my Church.
No... I ain't going to do that! Fur yes grace covers it.
Thanks. It hard to post it, because I don't understand things. But I trust. God.This is a great post. Thank you
I pretty much agree with everything you said - except for the fallacy that grace covers unrepented grave sin.I am a firm believer that grace covers all sins of the flesh. That is what I get when i read the entire NT and not just a few cherry picked verses. And I muat admit that I don't like it nor understand it.
Kind of...
When I say grace covers all sins of the flesh, folks tend to scrape the bottom of the barrel. They will go to rape, murder, pedophilia and homosexuallity in the most perverse form. No, I don't understand why some of these things are forgiven. I certainly don't wqnt to forive them in the flesh.
However, Jesus, Paul, John and James (the half brother of Jesus) all in one wat or another said if you are guilty of one point of the law, you are guilty of the whole law.
Jesus even said if you so much as think to sin, you are just as guilty.
But look at Romans 5. Paul said that the law entered, that the offense might abound... This telks me that the Law was given to show we can't be perfect like God (in the flesh).
But then I read 1 Corinthians... Peopke should read the whole letter and not post quips of it. Paul, a champion of grace, was really upset with them concerning them pushing the limits. He basically said, "yea... All things are lawful for us, but that doesn't mean we shoyld do them because they don't bring glory to God! Now jnock it off, quit using your grace for a cloak of maliciousness and don't put up with those who do!"
That's what Paul was saying and it fits perfectly with what Peter said.
By God's grace, I believe I can rob a liquor store, run from the cops and die jumping off a building while trying to get away from them. But I will still be a criminal who dies committing suicide. I will bring reproach to my wife and my Church.
No... I ain't going to do that! Fur yes grace covers it.
What if the law was given so we can radically accept everyone? *The only thing the law really does is show us over and over again that no one except Christ can follow it.* What if that is the point?
If we see the law as a light highlighting our darkness, it leads to unconditional love for neighbor