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To: NorthMountain

Everybody is estranged from God in some manner, and nobody can boast.

The pertinent question is, who has embraced salvation.


33 posted on 04/06/2014 6:49:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
The true answer to whose side is God on is, "Because of the cross of Jesus, God's on your side."

People need to do what Paul in Galatians and Jude in his book says: get back to the gospel of grace and "earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints."

Because of Jesus perfect sacrifice, God isn't mad at anyone. This misinterpretation of God as an "angry God" comes form those who have "forgotten they were purged form their sins" (1 Peter 1:9) and live in guilt and condemnation that doesn't come from God because God says, "There is now no more condemnation" (Rom 8:1).

Misrepresenting God as an angry God is problematic. It kept Moses from entering the Promised Land and those attitudes can keep people from realizing their God-given destiny. God had Moses strike the rock the first time (representing Jesus being stricken) and to SPEAK to the rock the second time (representing how we can come to the throne of grace to find grace and mercy from a loving God). Instead, the second time, Moses got angry and stuck the rock misrepresenting that God is still angry and needed to continue to strike Jesus. Because of that serious misrepresentation, Moses failed to enter the Promised Land. Should give one pause.

83 posted on 04/07/2014 9:24:14 AM PDT by PapaNew
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