If scumbags like Sammy the Bull can get salvation it has no value. He is personified evil.
No offense, but I am glad that the God I worship follows His rules, not discostu's.
My level of 'holiness' does not vary much from Sammy's, not from God's perspective.
“If scumbags like Sammy the Bull can get salvation it has no value.”
And if God can’t forgive and save scumbags, He has no power.
Like Paul who murdered Christians?
...and St. Paul on the road to Damascus?
Rejoice, Sammy the Prodigal Son has returned.
Christ came for the lost. It is Amazing Grace. Christ is the shepherd who leaves the ninety nine for the one lost. The author of the song Amazing Grace, John Newton, was a slave trader. The Apostle Paul hunted and killed Christians. God’s Grace is Amazing, it saved a wretch like me.
So you disagree with god?
Romans 10:13 NIV
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
“EVERYONE”
It doesn’t say everyone “except” mob bosses.
I know many people struggle with this. My wife does, but its up to God, not us.
To gain forgiveness and then salvation, you have to truly believe. You can’t trick God. Just saying a few magic words doesn’t cut it. Did you think you could fool an all knowing God?
God shall not be mocked.
He lived his whole life in sin, while I strived to live a sinless life, but now near/at the end of his life he gets to be forgiven and share the same heaven as me?
YES!
Matthew 20:16 NIV
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Obviously not. God makes the call, not you, or me. 😀
“If scumbags like Sammy the Bull can get salvation it has no value. He is personified evil.”
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The smallest, least offensive to any person (sin) you have done in your life is no less than the most terrible Sammy the Bull has done via the Blood of Christ.
It may not make sense, and it surely doesn’t have to make us comfortable.
Only one sin is not accepted by the LORD God: Often called Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, or Rejection of the Holy Spirit. That is to refuse to accept the LORD God’s grace and truth.
I get so angry (daily) and ashamedly, I might add and must remind myself the smallest sin I have ever done is as great as any that drove the Thorn in the forehead of Christ.
It’s not to say we may not have justified anger, just that it’s a very slippery slope.
I do believe in the justice of mortal man, up to and including the death sentence.