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While different sins require different punishments, the nature of sin, regardless of which one, is the same from God’s perspective. A single sin of disobedience forever separated man from God to eternal damnation. Christ’s redemptive action on the cross paid the debt owed for every sin once and for all. Accepting it forgives our sin, pays the debt we owe, and removes the sentence that awaits us after death.
Man didn’t do a thing to earn his salvation. It’s a free gift from God that has already been awarded to everyone, regardless of what sins are committed. If you don’t claim the reward by the deadline, it’s your own fault.
so Fauci and Gates after killing tens of millions can be saved.
Yes, the saving power of Christ is that powerful. He already bore the penalty for all sin, no matter how grievous.
I doubt Fauci, Gates, et al. would take the offer though. Their pride it seems knows no bounds, and pride is the one thing that can and will keep you from Christ permanently.
Technically the one sin not capable of being forgiven is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit- if you’re defining that to mean pride then yes.
From the context of Christ talking about the unpardonable sin, it seems that that sin is attributing a work done by the Holy Spirit to a devil, as that’s what the Pharisees were doing when Christ gave the warning. I generally use the pride definition when talking to people who aren’t saved or aren’t familiar with the Bible, don’t want to give them the false impression that they can’t get saved even if they want to.
The Apostle Paul was a Christian killer.
A Christian killer that repented in a massive way.
Yep. Christ’s death is sufficient for all.
They have the capacity to be in theory. In practice I'm fairly confident they're devout worshippers of Satan, so you can rest easy in that regard.
RE: Fauci, Gates, InsertWorstPersonHere can be saved?
100% - if they repent and accept the covering of Jesus' sacrifice.
Matthew 5
Jesus' words in verses 43-46:
“You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. ' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven.
Paul in the Bible, was like the leader of ISIS back in those times - he Hunted Christians and Killed them.
God changed Paul - Paul ended up becoming one of the most influential figures in the Bible for spreading the Gospel.
BTW - this doesn't erase the need for Justice on Earth.
It just acknowledges the limitless reach of God's offer that is extended to each and every person that ever lived regardless of what they had done.
God is absolutely good. They could have repented. They have chosen poorly.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. II Peter 3:9 NKJV
I look at each person's salvation the way I do coworker compensation. As long as I am satisfied with my compensation, I don't care about someone else's.
It's about each individuals relationship with god.
Well I “care” about someone’s relationship with Jesus, but I can’t give them mine of course. They have to take the steps. It’s their relationship. We care, because some need to be a place of meeting. As in we Christians should be very willing to introduce them to Christ. From their it gets personal for them, and good for them on that.
Say my own world is crumbling around me, and the stress keeps building up and up, until one day I explode on someone: could be a sibling, parent, grandparent, friend, colleague, spouse, or worst of all a child. Is that an irredeemable sin for which there is no help, even though circumstances beyond my control pushed me passed my breaking point?
If you’re still breathing and capable of conscious thought, you can be saved (Romans 10:8-11, 1 John 1:6-10). Christ understands whatever struggles you’re going through; He was tempted in every single way you have been (Hebrews 4:15).
We all fail and fall short of the glory of God. He is upright and perfect. He is Holy and unholiness, uncleanness separates us from him.
We can't do anything of our own accord to save ourselves:
Jesus knew and God knows that we will face hurdles, challenges, trials, and tests in this life. It is impossible for human beings in our fallen state to 100% avoid sin, so what we must do is resolve to try.
We can almost always cutout obvious and overtly sinful behaviors and attitudes, but it is the more subtle things that get us. Pride, Egotistical Thinking, Wrath. Jesus paid for all of those on the cross.
If you are trying to keep a life consistent with Biblical precepts, consistent with what the Lord asked us to do, though failing at times, and you are already a Christian, know that this won't separate you from God. When you fail, ask forgiveness, and move forward.
If you are not a Christian, and the living water is spurring the seed of faith inside you, know this. There is nothing you can do that he cannot forgive. The worst sinner can be saved. As long as you are alive and conscious and able to seek salvation and forgiveness, you are not too far gone.
Pick up your cross and follow him, and likewise, if you are already a Christian, or want to rededicate you life. Deny yourself (you innate desires for sin, lust, ego, etc) and pick up that cross. The yoke is easy and the burdens light.
Precisely. It is very much a choice to remain in rebellion with Satan, dying with your sin on your shoulders, or surrendering to God, and dying to your sins, being reborn by the death and resurrection of Jesus on the cross. Jesus already shouldered our burdens, and if we choose God, choose to end our rebellion, choose to surrender to his perfect will, love, mercy, and grace, then we can be with him in paradise.
God is good. I am full glad to have settled the account. Sin doesn't have anything on grace and forgiveness. Once you realize how sin hurts you, your self respect, your self image, your self worth, which is hard to rationalize when you are young, but unceasing as an adult, you realize that sin isn't worth it. It seperates you from God, and it makes you feel awful, rotten, low, and a practice of it leads to worse and worse places.
As we approach Good Friday, and indeed Easter Sunday, It is a good thing to remember and focus our lives on, re-dedication, surrender, and to do our best to emulate the perfect obedience demonstrated to us by the King of Kings.
Glorify and Honor these names: Jehovah, Jesus, Holy Spirit. We bring glory and honor and praise to you in the precious and Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
It's not free. It comes with a contingency and that is that one MUST believe a certain way.
It's really a person saving themselves. Sin is a made-up condition to sell a made-up solution. It's just good business.
The Bible does not preach a works based salvation. Never has and never will.
A person can not save themselves, or Jesus Christ wouldn't have needed to do what He did to forgive us of our sin.
If I must do something to be saved.
How is that anything other than me saving me?
1.) You must first examine and look at what you consider to be your failings, and see what you have done lives up to the value system you have now.
If you can find these things, and find moments where you cannot live up to your own standards, then you must ask: "How then could I have lived up to God's standards?"
2.) If you have the humility there to look inwardly and find failings, and you have decided that they were failings, you have to acknowledge that you have taken a critical step. You have changed your mind, and by this, we mean, repented. Repentance means to change your mind.
If you have repented, or realized and judged for yourself that you have been or have walked in error, and changed your ways regarding this, then consider this.
3.) A repentant man is a man who wants to forgive himself, but what is more important is forgiveness of God. There is a free gift of forgiveness of sins if we but ask. All we need to do, is to acknowledge and confess our faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who is able to forgive you, who is able to make that intercession between our sins, our failures, before Almighty God. We open the door, to that knock on our heart's door.
4.) Finally, now that we have answered the door, and invited Jesus in, we want to walk with him who has saved us by his death on the cross. We want to avoid sin, we want to remain open to serving the Lord, and sharing our testimony with others, that the seeds we plant, may be watered, and grow into salvation and forgiveness of sins in the life of another who has realized their mistakes.
God is so much love that he gave his begotten Son, a Son of his own nature, perfect and blameless to die a brutal death, after humiliation, mockery, betrayal, sport, and hatred, by the very people he came to save. If you will let go of the pride, drop the guard, and simply reach out to him, you may be surprised.
I found Lord Jesus when my pride was in tatters, and with my ego stilled, when I had realized the magnitude of so many failures, lines walked, filthy moments, and I reached out. He was there. I hope the same for you. Honestly.
You must believe to be saved. This is not the same as being saved through good works. Belief is not a work. It's not a thing you do in the world for the good of other people or for the good of the world.
You can't be good to be saved because we are not perfect and God's standard is perfection. i.e. you can't save yourself by being a good person because none of us are.
That's like thanking the gun manufacturer when you pulled the trigger yourself. You saved yourself.
Nice try.
A flawed analogy. God made us perfect; we CHOSE to rebel alongside Satan.
The gun was always necesary for self-defense, but we chose to commit an offense with it.
The gun is free will. Without free will, you are naught more than an automaton. Without free will, you have no sentience, only obedience.
Do you think God would want to surround himself with people that couldn't freely think for themselves, or choose for themselves?
It would be like a collection of fine tools; All nice, but ultimately unable to do anything outside of the artisan. A robotic arm can do nothing without a programmer, despite endless possibility, if it is not told to perform an action, it cannot, and will not perform that action.
You get a chance to choose, remain in rebellion, or surrender those sins to Jesus Christ who can save you. If you die with those sins still of your own account, then you will account for them all before the Father, when he decides if you should depart with the damned.
Make no mistake, God will put an end to suffering, misery, pain, strife; but to do that, he must make a full end of sin and those who remain in rebellion.
It is my personal belief, not scripturally backed, that God wants people who have known the pain of sin who desire to put it behind them, that will be his people. This is what I want for sure, to be remade, and be perfect. I don't deserve it, but I hope for it none the less.
"It comes with a contingency and that is that one MUST believe a certain way."
Correct. One must believe the Truth.
"Beliefs" can be right or wrong.
Jesus said "I am the Way, the TRUTH, and the Life.
Believe in Him.
See this is where you have to have come to an understanding of objective good and evil. Let me tell you a story of one of the sins that I am not proud about.
I slept around with married women, on more than one occasion. I knowingly did this, because I wanted to have sex. I was desperate, not just for sex, which was the idol I bowed before, but for validation, and to be wanted. What I did was wrong. I violated the trust of other people, it was unethical. As a matter of fact I slept around while I was married, but separated, with other married but separated people too, and the separation was my fault. I frequented massage parlors, strip clubs, and had sexual interactions with anyone who would have me. I eventually contracted and STD. I received the penalty for my errors. I consider this to be a mercy now. A wake up call that what I was doing and how I was living was incorrect.
What I was doing was wrong. People hurt because of me. People suffered because of me, not only that, I suffered because of me, my psyche suffered because of me. I look back on these things and I hurt. I am sad. I know other people hurt because of me. I am honestly sorry that I ever did these things, and that is the key.
"Repentance" means to have a "change of mind." I changed my mind; I was not a good and upright person.
It was revealed to me by natural revelation, it was unclean, unsightly, unholy, it promoted the breakup of marriages. It was unsightly, it was incorrect, it was not upright.
Salvation is freely given. There is nothing that you could do to earn it. Jesus Christ already paid the debt on the cross. I deserve 100% to burn in hell. I know that with every fiber of my being.
You remain in rebellion, because you ultimately choose to bow before the sin, before the ego, before the pleasures of the world, carnality. I know for a fact you have a lifetime of unsavory interactions, weakness, things that you would rather the light never touch. All sinners have this shame.
You know in your heart of hearts that the sin is wrong. You know deep down, that the sin makes you feel uneasy. You think it is conditioning, but I know it is shame.
Change your mind, or as we say, repent. Repent and Acknowledge the Savior, the Son of God, the one who can save you from hellfire, who can remake you without those sins.
This is why I serve Jesus, and while you may not trust what I have to say, I can tell you that my life is better, I am happier, and I have resolved to change because there was hope for me. Without Lord Jesus, I would have ended my life.
I found him crying in my project car, wanting to die for all of my sins, failures, unsavory moments, weaknesses, failings, and unrighteousness. He saved me and pulled me out. So I serve him, and I hope that my testimony reaches you honestly.