Christ died for everyone,that includes the people who ended up in hell.
By your standard all one has to to is just believe in Christ and continue to sin all they want and God HAS to accept them into heaven
I wonder how many people who are in hell thought the same thing?
BTW, When we die completely to the will Christ our "works" are in Christ.
You seem to be confused about what works really are.
You have missed that people don't sin as much as people ARE SIN..
Humans ARE SIN.. from the top of thier head to the bottom of their feet..
Including YOU.. Thats WHY......
"You MUST be born again"... -Jesus... Duuugh..
That, my friend, is CATHOLIC Theology. That somehow when a priest forgives a man's sins, that he is then absolved and God has to do what the priest says.
The protestant belief is that God is not obligated to do anything. The fact is that if someone professes to believe in Christ and then continues in sin, then that sin is evidence that they do not believe in Christ. God is not obligated to accept you or me or anyone into heaven. Those whom he chooses to allow in are the ones who will be allowed in.
I wonder how many people who are in hell thought the same thing?
There's going to be a lot of people in Hell who thought they were good enough to make it into heaven. I suspect that number is going to be higher than the number who erroneously believed that they had a saving faith in Christ.
You seem to be confused about what works really are.
You seem to be confused about what those works will accomplish.
I've been following this conversation, and Marlowe never once said anything like the above underlined section. You added that on your own.
Incidentally, the Apostle Paul reports being accused of the same thing: 8 Why not say--as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Rom 8:3
That puts Marlowe in some pretty lofty company, doesn't it? But it suggests that Marlowe's being misunderstood over exactly the same thing that Paul's adversaries misunderstood.
It doesn't take a whole lot of logic to realize the poverty of that statement.
If Christ died for a man and paid for every one of his sins and cleansed that man of his transgressions with His blood, and that man STILL burns in hell, just what does that say about the efficacy and strength of Christ's sacrifice?
It's a ludicrous argument. Christ's blood was sufficient for all the world, but efficient for only those who are His.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin." -- Psalms 51:1-2"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
"Wash me thoroughly." Not conditionally. Not partially. Not temporally. "Thoroughly."
"She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet." -- Proverbs 31:21
Shall I worry? Is my household clothed with the blood of Christ or not?
The Bible ends that confusion.
Works and "all our righteousnesses" are "as filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6).