Posted on 07/19/2018 7:39:46 AM PDT by Salvation
MARKED: Not found in Scripture.
Monsignor Pope Ping!
9Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?” 10Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things? 11“Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. 12“If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13“No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man.
14“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” John 3:9-21 NASB
In mortal sin it is not that we directly turn from God — at least not at first — but that we turn to the lesser things of the darkness and come to hate Him who is the Light.
In mortal sin it is not that we directly turn from God — at least not at first — but that we turn to the lesser things of the darkness and come to hate Him who is the Light.
And all sin has the same payment, the shed blood of Jesus. Nothing else can remove our sin or atone for it.
Hebrews 9:22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly (i.e. mortal), he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly. (1 John 5:16-17)This is not in your Bible?
According to God's Word, ALL SIN in "mortal" and James 2:10 says committing just ONE SIN, ANY SIN is sufficient to send every individual to Hell. Because God says if you have broken ONE, you have broken them ALL!
This is the reason why the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth, lived a TOTALLY SINLESS life and made ONE, ALL-SUFFICIENT SACRIFICE upon the cross of Calvary; in order to save every individual who will simply believe on Him and receive Him as their personal Savior to the saving of their soul. Putting their faith in Christ ALONE (TOTALLY APART FROM ANY supposed "good works", "personal righteousness", or "merit" they may have done), and His FINISHED WORK at Calvary, on their behalf. (see John 3:16; John 1:10; John 3:36; Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 3:10,12)
Please read #8
Scripture confirmation.
Post #8 is the winner.
Thank-you and God Bless.
Context is no biggie.
Say what??
It is about the levels of sin.
I have heard it said that when we confess our sins, we should always start by confessing that we sinned against the first commandment; because a sin against any other commandment is also a sin against the first commandment.
Apparently the msgr has a different understanding of "mortal" sin than what has been presented by Roman Catholics on these threads and from what I read in the CCC.
There is no level of sin in that all sin separates us from God apart from faith in Christ.
You may endure different consequences of your sin on earth; however, Paul is clear the wages of sin is death.
Sorry, have to agree with Salvation on this.
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