Oh you USED to be on the Roman Hamster wheel of guilt!
What sinless life have you led that you ought not to feel guilt? Don’t you DESERVE to feel guilty because you ARE guilty?
And are you under the impression that you will automatically go to heaven *no matter what you do from here on out*, simply because you say so?
This is a quite interesting tangent to postulate!
Is it made of straw or just a lack of belief in what John etal have written?
“Oh you USED to be on the Roman Hamster wheel of guilt!”
Yes! Alter boy and all.
“What sinless life have you led that you ought not to feel guilt? Don’t you DESERVE to feel guilty because you ARE guilty?”
Dear Claud,
I AM FORGIVEN.
ALL MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.
I AM LOVED.
It isnt about my old nature in Adam any more or my Guilt.
It is about HIS righteousness.
“And are you under the impression that you will automatically go to heaven *no matter what you do from here on out*, simply because you say so?”
Dear Claud, no.
I will go to Heaven because HE IS PERFECT.
I accepted the gift of His sacrifice.
None is about me.
ALL IS ABOUT HIM.
So yes, I used to be on the Roman Hamster Wheel of Guilt and False Works.
I am now saved.
I have eternal life.
I am sealed for the Day of Redemption.
I am now seated in the heavenlies with Christ.
None of that I understood as a Roman, until God opened my eyes.
Then the Scriptures came alive.
My Gracious God intervened in my life that I might come to faith in Him.
And I got off the wheel that goes nowhere.
It doesn’t sound as if you are saved, but still running on the Roman Wheel of Guilt. You don’t have to live that way when God stands ready to grant you eternal life.
If you choose to ignore His Indescribable Gift, you have chosen poorly FRiend.
I wish salvation for you.
Guilt is from the enemy.
Nobody needs to feel guilty for sin they have been forgiven of.
And God tells us this in Scripture.
Romans 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
No, because GOD says so.