see there you go continued lack of repentance.. He is not promoting a series. I did not even recognize it for along time. I just thought it was a mailman. Only a legalism such as you would attack him for something like that,
And people address the verses over and over with you. You just refuse to listen. so people give up. it is the wipe the dust off your feet sort of thing.. but yet you keep coming, keep attacking, keep showing a lack of humility..
Grace, peace, and love to you and Dan in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is by no means personal why I said what I did. It also not something exclusive to Dan alone, either.
Most Bible Alone believing Christians today who hold to a view similar as Dan when it comes to Soteriology and Harmartiology also watch and endorse worldly sinful movies and or TV series (Although I do realize some may not).
Granted, Dan may not even watch this particular TV series. He may not even watch any TV or movies.
But the keeping up of a pic that others know is from this series will lead one to think that they do endorse the show (even if that is not their intention). Intentions do not matter. If one has a pic of a headshot of a porn star (that was a screen capture from a porn film), would that not be a concern? But because it is a regular comedy TV series, it gets a pass.
The Bible does not agree with the promotion of sinful things (of which Seinfeld clearly does).
Again, if the roles were reversed, and lets say I posted this same pic from his avatar and I did not know it from the Seinfeld TV series, and somebody pointed that fact out to me and they said the TV series was sinful and they gave some examples of how the series was sinful (like I did), then I would say I did not know it came from a sinful TV series and I would immediately take the avatar pic down and replace it with something better. I already told him about how this pic is from the Seinfeld TV series and I pointed out examples of how the show promotes sinful things. But he does not seem to care and he still has this avatar pic up and running and still. Therein lies the problem that you‘re not getting. Then again, if one believes they don’t lose salvation when they sin, I suppose it’s not really a big deal or a problem to have an avatar the promotes a sinful TV series.
One cannot appeal to how they did not know, after the cat is already out of the bag.
get off it dude, He is highlighting who HE IS. and what HE DOES. He is a MAIL MAN. and his avatar is the picture of a MAIL MAN..
That could have been his initial intention, but I told him that the pic is from the Seinfeld TV series (Which promotes sinful things), and I gave some examples from some articles on it.
So why would one want to have a pic of that series (Especially after being told about this)?
There are parts you simply refuse to acknowledge.
3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have you suffered so [
c]many things in vain—if indeed
it was in vain?
5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you,
does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—
6 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Being made perfect by the flesh in Galatians 3:3 is not in reference to obeying the Laws of Christ by the Spirit, but it is in reference to going back to the Old Testament Laws of Moses like circumcision.
If you skip back a chapter it says this:
Galatians 2:3-4
”But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:”
We read in Acts 15 the following:
”And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.” (Acts 15:1).
“But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.” (Acts 15:5).
”Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:” (Acts 15:24).
In Galatians 5, it says:
”Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.” (Galatians 5:2).
So we can see that this “perfecting of the flesh“ being spoken about negatively was in reference to going back to the Old Testament Laws of Moses that we are not under any more.
Acts 13:39 says we cannot be justified by the Laws of Moses.
Hebrews 7:12 says the Law has changed.
Notice Galatians 3:10. It says cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law. This would be the Torah or the 613 Laws of Moses as a whole or package deal. Yes, certain laws have been repeated in the Laws of Christ, but this would be under a new set of laws or commands as a part of the New Covenant and not as a part of the Old Law. So when Paul is referring to the Law or works negatively in a generic sense, he is referring to the Old Law and this was usually addressing the problem of those who thought they had to first be circumcised to be saved.
It requires perfection. If we break even one of the smallest commands, we are guilty
James 2:10
For whoever shall
keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
And the law does not even give a complete list of every sin we could commit..
The context of James is not supporting the idea that it is impossible to keep God’s laws.
That’s not what the context of James is saying in the slightest sense.
The whole point being made by James was to keep the royal law of love in loving your neighbor as yourself.
James was rebuking certain believers for giving favor to the rich brethren over the poor brethren.
James keeps going and says faith without works is dead (James 2:17), and how we are justified by works and not by faith alone (James 2:24) so as to drive home the point that we should love all of the brethren equally and fairly (Especially the poor brethren).
James was desiring to get his readers to obey and not tell them the futility of keeping God’s laws.
That would be ripping the verse out of the context of the rest of the chapter.
As jesus said to the pharisees (of who you resemble) be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect. thats the standard. they could not meet that standard and neither can you.
Jesus did not lie to them. If Jesus told them to be perfect as the Heavenly Father is perfect and that was not ever possible for them to accomplish, and He knew that, it would be promoting a lie. That’s not possible because Jesus is God and He cannot lie.
Until you humble yourself and become poor in spirit. I fear you may never understand that fact and keep pumping your chest while attacking others
1 Timothy 6:3-4 says,
“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words,
even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing,”
Salvation is all of grace. thats it.. no works are involved.
Not true.
My
Post #30 (within this thread) reveals plenty of verses that contradicts this kind of false belief.
Let the good Berean check them out and learn and understand.
Christian growth on the other hand does consist of works, and God growing us in his image, sadly many will not grow very much, to their detriment, and they will suffer loss.. But even he will be saved, even as through fire..
My response on this point will be continued in my next post to you.