Little known Mormon fact: Some of the handcarts used in the trek from Missouri to Utah had odometers on them.
Posted on 01/08/2015 5:33:17 AM PST by Gamecock
Of course temptation is not sin.
But avoiding it makes it easier to avoid sin.
Freely available data on the internet.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/878209/Utah-County-is-hotbed-for-white-collar-crimes.html?pg=all
Where’d the concept of free will come from? Because it’s sure not found in Scripture.
Is God obligated to give man free reign to run his life as he chooses?
God has two claims of ownership on man.
One is as his Creator, and the other as his Redeemer.
The person who has surrendered his life to God is not his own any more. He was bought with a price and now belongs to God. He has transferred ownership of himself to the RIGHTFUL owner, God, instead of usurping that.
And there is no free will, really. It’s not found anywhere in Scripture. On the contrary, according to Scripture, we are all sold as slaves to sin by our choice to sin, or we are slaves to God, when He redeems us.
People like to think that they are free and independent entities, autonomous individuals, but nothing is further from the truth. Without God’s sustaining us, even the unbeliever, we could not even draw our next breath.
There is no avoiding temptation.
There is avoiding situations where sin is easier to indulge in, but temptation comes in many ways and forms. The flesh provides plenty of it, and where the flesh doesn’t, the Devil does.
Little known Mormon fact: Some of the handcarts used in the trek from Missouri to Utah had odometers on them.
THAT's when it's FUN!
Interesting, thanks.
One of my dear departed pastors once said:
You can't keep a bird from landing in your hair; but you don't have to let her build a nest there!
Genesis is not part of Scripture?
Adam and Eve had a choice of obeying God's command to not eat from a particular tree, or not.
They chose to eat.
It didn't end well for them.
Yes, ADAM and EVE DID have that choice.
We don't.
We were not created sinless but were born into sin, with a sin nature that makes us slaves to sin.
It's funny that the RCC should teach the concept of *original sin* and then claim we have free will.
Adam and Eve had a choice of obeying God's command to not eat from a particular tree, or not.
It didn't end well for the whole human race and all of creation. Sin entered the world and the corruption that goes along with it.
We cannot escape sin. We have no free will.
you want to compare the prefallen staTe of man to our condition today?
Three people had free will. And and Eve, before the fall. Jesus was the other.
We are slaves to sin.
We have no choice in resisting temptation or yielding to it?
Charged by the mile, did they?
The natural man has nothing within him to give himself the ability to resist temptation.
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
Romans 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Romans 6:15-23 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nope.
If you can resist sin you don’t need Jesus.
We watched The Godmakers back in the mid 80’s at a friend’s house. Afterwared, one of the women said, “Now I know why my neighbor killed herself.” The neighbor was a in a mormon marriage and her husband divorced her.
And what are the proper fruits, according to the Bible, of that faith that brings Eternal Life?
Grace is unique to Christianity and not something to be witnessed in man-made religion. The saved are heirs. Sometimes a father is not very pleased with his children, but he doesn’t write them out of the will.
This knowledge frees us to to good, not to ensure our salvation, but to please our Father in heaven.
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