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To: Colorado Cowgirl

Sorry, but you need more than the Bible. Are you saying you can go out and commit adultery, kill your children, cheat on your income taxes, speed on the highway, have an abortion.....and all you need is the bible?

That idea doesn’t work for me, for those are mostly sinful — speeding could be OK on the way to the hospital — but how would one live with these sins on their soul, knowing they has disobeyed God and the Word — Jesus Christ.

Is the Holy Spirit really active in their life?

Hmmm.


17 posted on 04/16/2012 9:31:50 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

James 1:19-27 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does. If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.


18 posted on 04/16/2012 9:51:16 PM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: Salvation; Colorado Cowgirl
Sorry, but you need more than the Bible. Are you saying you can go out and commit adultery, kill your children, cheat on your income taxes, speed on the highway, have an abortion.....and all you need is the bible?

Okay, she DID say the Bible was given to us as our guide from God, so how do you turn that into accusing her of saying you can go out "and commit adultery, kill your children, cheat on your income taxes, speed on the highway, have an abortion.....and all you need is the bible"? If we didn't HAVE the Holy Scriptures, we wouldn't even KNOW we were sinners:

Galatians 3:19-29
Why, then, was the law given at all? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come. The law was given through angels and entrusted to a mediator. A mediator, however, implies more than one party; but God is one.

Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But Scripture has locked up everything under the control of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

Before the coming of this faith, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until the faith that was to come would be revealed. So the law was our guardian (schoolmaster) until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Romans 3:19-26
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Any person who has received Jesus Christ, believed on Him to save them, is born again by the grace of God and the Holy Spirit indwells them as teacher and guide. HE opens the Scriptures to our hearts and that makes the Bible our guide because it is Divinely-inspired and infallible. Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. (Luke 21:33)

24 posted on 04/16/2012 11:00:27 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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