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Joy to some, source of consternation to others!
Posted on 06/09/2014 6:36:17 PM PDT by Gamecock
But the gospel is neither moralism nor relativism so it is equally offensive to the moral and the irreligious. But Christ calls us to repent of both our good and bad works, for we have no righteousness of our own.
Celebrating 2000 threads started by Gamecock!
Joy to some, source of consternation to others!
Are those fireworks delighting some, or dandelions causing consternation to others?
This begs the question of Free will ?
Great thread topic.
Indeed, it was those in Scripture who appealed to their own good works to whom the Lord will say, “Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you.*
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This kind of self-righteous pharisaic sanctimony makes me puke. The Christian Gospel is about the redeeming love and mercy of God. This rubbish has nothing of love in it, it is merely clanging cymbals and sounding brass.
Amen! It is akin to standing on the surface of the sun expecting to cast a shadow.
What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee
(2 Samuel 9:8,Luke 5:8,Hebrews 13:5)
A rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says, “What is this, a joke?”
A little boy was listening to a long and excessively boring sermon in church. Suddenly his eye the red sanctuary lamp caught his eye. Tugging his father’s sleeve, he said, “Daddy, when the light turns green can we go?”
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Yup. 1 Corinthians 13 came to mind while I was reading your post.
Which is exactly why our works do NOTHING to contribute to our salvation. They are worthless, like filthy rags in God's sight.
How can any person think that by adding our own polluted works to the gift of salvation God offers us, it will complete our faith and please God and satisfy Him?
God demands PERFECTION from us, something it is absolutely impossible for us to give Him because everything we do is stained and corrupted by sin.
The Catholic church is doing people a disservice by teaching or even implying that our filthy rags works somehow appease God and count towards our salvation. It's a deceit of the enemy.
But the gospel is neither moralism nor relativism so it is equally offensive to the moral and the irreligious.
Many Christians can be moral just because they have no desire to do those things considered immoral, it does not necessarily have any thing to do with faith.
Others try and mostly fail in some way or another, and that is why we need forgiveness.
Proverbs 16
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.
5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
I don’t know if this is true, but I have heard that the filty rags thing is a softened a bit in the translation.
I heard the literal translation is menstrual rags.
Need to look this up.
It is easy to look at the one or two areas of my life that I have some small amount of control over and be proud of that. But even those areas fall way short. Andbthat doesn’t even take into consideration the areas where my life is a total wreck.
The rich young ruler comes to mind. Many people take this passage to mean we should give away our money. No. It shows that he had his stuff in order. Except for one small thing.. His false god was his $$$.
Exactly the same here.
Praise God. I never looked at that. Thanks!
So; how many REPLIES to threads have you got?
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