[johngrace]

Dear Sister- You can prop up whatever scripture you want and read more than what was intended.

See post 159. You are just wrong. I can ask him to help yes and he will but we have to respond. We are not robots. Period.

[metmom]

Nobody ever said that we don’t have to respond.

We are convicted of our sin and sinfulness, we repent and confess our sin and our faith in Jesus and we ARE saved.

Not hope to be. Not if we try hard enough. Not if the good works outweigh the bad works because works to not garner salvation. It is given to us FREELY. God is not an Indian giver.

We are transferred into the kingdom of the Son He loves. We are clothed with the righteousness of Christ which God sees when He looks at us instead of the filthy rags of our own righteousness that He’d see otherwise.

Once we are saved and become a child of God, He does not disown us every time we slip up and sin. A parent is certainly grieved when their child sins and the child is chastised, but NEVER disowned.

We may not get all the reward we’re entitled to in heaven, but we’re not kicked out of heaven.