stupid Christians... get the theology straight. It's right there in the BIBLE!
I got a little angry at a few Christians today. Mom told me that she just heard a speaker on the Christian radio say "there's two kinds of sinners. The ones going to Hell, and the ones saved by grace going to heaven." This Calvanistic doctrine is very dangerous and blatantly wrong. Where it may not seem to be doing much harm (as most people like to say Christians are just sinners saved by grace) it's helping send thousands on their way straight to hell. The implication that we sin in word thought and deed every day, that we are still sinners just with a Jesus stamp on our foreheads is ludicrus and absolutely ridiculous.
In a nutshell, it's giving them the validation to go on living a in sin and still be able to go to heaven.
That is not Biblical in the least.
Paul wrote "What shall we say then? Shall we go sinning so that grace may increas? By no means!"
Even in the early church, people mistook the role that Jesus played in saving us from our sins. He did not come to make it so we can keep on sinning, Jesus came so that we wouldn't HAVE to sin anymore and that our previous sins would be wiped from our lives enabling us to live successful, holy, righteous lives devoted to Him and His will. Jesus said "Be perfect, therefore, as your Father in heaven is perfect." Jesus always emphasised the point of holiness and life without sin. He makes it known that sin CANNOT enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus is able to forgive us of our sins, but also expects us to not sin any longer.
Sin is disobedience of God's will and His commands. Jesus came to make known to every nation what God's will is. His commands are already known from the Old testament. Because we know what the law is, we know what we should do and should not do and that makes it possible for us to not sin.
"Any one who keeps on sinning cannot remain in me and does not know me"
Because Jesus lives in us when we accept His forgiveness, He gives us the power to be able to conquer sin because He conquered sin. Jesus doesn't let us down. If we sin while He is in us, that is OUR mistake because we do not invoke the power that He makes available to us.
The eternal security thing is just way too dangerous to True Biblical teaching. Holiness is something to be grasped here on earth and in our lifetimes. Righteousness is what Christ calls ALL of His followers to and will accept nothing less than our all.
I am not a sinner saved by grace, I'm a child of the King.
In a nutshell, it's giving them the validation to go on living a in sin and still be able to go to heaven.
That is not Biblical in the least.
Paul wrote "What shall we say then? Shall we go sinning so that grace may increas? By no means!"
Even in the early church, people mistook the role that Jesus played in saving us from our sins. He did not come to make it so we can keep on sinning, Jesus came so that we wouldn't HAVE to sin anymore and that our previous sins would be wiped from our lives enabling us to live successful, holy, righteous lives devoted to Him and His will. Jesus said "Be perfect, therefore, as your Father in heaven is perfect." Jesus always emphasised the point of holiness and life without sin. He makes it known that sin CANNOT enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus is able to forgive us of our sins, but also expects us to not sin any longer.
Sin is disobedience of God's will and His commands. Jesus came to make known to every nation what God's will is. His commands are already known from the Old testament. Because we know what the law is, we know what we should do and should not do and that makes it possible for us to not sin.
"Any one who keeps on sinning cannot remain in me and does not know me"
Because Jesus lives in us when we accept His forgiveness, He gives us the power to be able to conquer sin because He conquered sin. Jesus doesn't let us down. If we sin while He is in us, that is OUR mistake because we do not invoke the power that He makes available to us.
The eternal security thing is just way too dangerous to True Biblical teaching. Holiness is something to be grasped here on earth and in our lifetimes. Righteousness is what Christ calls ALL of His followers to and will accept nothing less than our all.
I am not a sinner saved by grace, I'm a child of the King.