Being focused on SELF and how YOU are the greatest sounds about right and is not a false accusation.
No. I have a family and people know me. I have Christian friends and they would not say that of me. They would not label me as a narcissist (Who is a person focused always on self and not others and thinks they are the greatest). A narcissist also has a strong lack of empathy for others. This means they will not even apologize or feel bad for anyone. Even my own writings here at ChristianityBoard, and on Christian Forums speak for themselves (if a person really wants to know the truth and see that you are falsely accusing me).
But Jesus said, “Blessed are ye, when
men shall revile you, and persecute
you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great
is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” (Matthew 5:11-12).
You know what they say, "If the shoe fits." You have basically judged and condemned (at least most) Protestants as not being on the narrow way.
Think. Protestants number close to 800 million to 1 billion. That’s not far behind Catholicism in numbers. In fact, when Jesus spoke of the straight gate (narrow way) He was referring to those who appeared to know Him by calling Him Lord, Lord (See Luke 13:24-25). Protestants I have encountered told me that they can sin and still be saved on some level (Which is also what you teach because of a false interpretation on 1 John 1:8 - which makes an excuse to sin). For I do not agree that a Christian can abide in sin on some level, and still be saved by having a belief alone on Jesus for salvation. There are many warnings against to us believers how sin can destroy our souls (Matthew 5:28-30, Matthew 6:15, Matthew 12:37, Matthew 25:31-46, Luke 9:62, 1 Timothy 5:8, Galatians 5:19-21). For you try to convince me that Christians do not have to overcome sin in this life (Which runs contrary to Galatians 5:24, 1 Peter 4:1-2, and 2 Corinthians 7:1). Therefore, you believe in disobedience to God as a part of salvation. You fail to understand that the Judgment will be a righteous judgment and not an unrighteous one.
What did Jesus say about Belief Alone Salvationism?
John 3:15 - that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
This is ripping this passage out of context.
You fail to keep reading to get the whole picture.
John 3:19-21 says:
19 “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
Notice verse 20. It says everyone who does evil hates the light.
So if you are doing evil, then you hate the light (Who is Jesus - John 8:12).
Seeing you defend disobedience to God, this means you really hate the real Jesus of the Bible.
Anyways, the point here is that belief in Jesus includes obeying Him and not doing evil.
John 6:40 - For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.. 47 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
Again, context.
Jesus said, “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:54).
Skip back to John 4. Jesus says this.
”My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” (John 6:34).
So the flesh or meat that Jesus is referring to in John 6:54 is doing the will of the Father.
Jesus tells us that not everyone who says unto Him Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the will of my Father.
But Jesus will profess that He never knew them because they work iniquity (sin).
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21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:21-23).
This is in context to doing what Jesus says.
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26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” (Matthew 7:26-27).
So everyone who hears the sayings of Jesus and does them not, they will be likened to a fool who built their house upon the sand and when a storm came, great was the fall of that house (Meaning, they will not be saved).
So again, belief in John 6 is in context to our obedience to Jesus. Yes, we need to believe and trust in Him, but this belief also includes that we obey Jesus and not disobey Him.
John 11:25 - Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Speaking of the resurrection:
Jesus says in John 5:28-29 that they who have done good shall come forth unto the resurrection of life, and they who have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation.
28 “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” (John 5:28-29).
In Matthew 13:41-42, we learn that Jesus will send forth His angels and gather out of HIS Kingdom all do iniquity (sin) and they will be cast into the furnace of fire (i.e. the Lake of Fire). This is why Jesus said that the slave to sin will not abide in the house forever (John 8:34-35).
You also seem obsessed with indicting others (including myself) as promoting a license to sin.
Yes, because you believe 1 John 1:8 is saying that you will always have sin in your life in some way or that you must sin again in the future at some point and yet you are still saved (When that verses is not teaching that). You also mock the idea of Christians overcoming sin in this life even when the Bible teaches that we are to do that (John 5:14, John 8:11, Galatians 5:24, 1 Peter 4:1-2, 2 Corinthians 7:1).
You even falsely accused me of being a 'different' Mailman Dan on a different Christian forum and never apologized for it.
Well, first it is odd that another Christian online just happened to have your same username that is unique. So it is an honest mistake that I think anyone could easily make. Anyways, generally that’s not like me to not apologize. But things have been crazy busy these last few months because my wife and I have added a another member to our family (By the grace of God and prayer). But if I missed giving you apology on that one, I will do so now.
Dan. I am sorry.
You call that having love for me in Christ? You sure have a strange way of showing it. False accusations are not produced out of love.
It’s not a false accusation to disagree with your belief and stand for the truth of God’s Word.
If I am correct In my interpretation of God’s Word (and I believe am confident that I am), then no false accusation has been made and I am merely siding with what the Bible says.
You have said I am a narcissist when that clearly is not true to anyone who reads my posts and even knows me.
You made a judgment about me personally outside of the Bible without really knowing my life.
I just don't love your false gospel of 'type 2 works salvation.' I actually detest it!.
There is no such thing as “Type 2 Works Salvation” (A term you invented). The gospel calls us to Sanctification of the Spirit and a belief of the truth (Let the good Berean check: 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, Galatians 6:8-9, Romans 8:13 to see the truth for themselves).
Jesus says,
”But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.’ ”
(Luke 19:27) (NKJV).