Posted on 04/19/2015 1:56:33 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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Moreover, that point boils down to whether or not a person is willing to have Jesus as their Savior, because Jesus made it plain that He only saves people who are willing to obey him.
Those who decline to follow Him cannot be granted eternal life.
Now people are free to excuse this all away, but then God is free to decline to give them the priceless (but conditional) gift of eternal life.
Modernist Christianity is for people who feel like they should probably go to church but either they don’t really believe all that stuff or that stuff is kind of irrelevant.
I suppose that could be true.
“Either the Bible is true and sufficient or its merely a historical book.”
Right answer!
Exactly. I overheard a conversation between two co-workers, one who goes to a so-called “Mainline” Protestant church and the other was officially completing his RCIA so he and his wife could get officially married in the Roman Catholic Church. The RCIA one was telling her about how he doesn’t believe much of it but just going through with it to please his wife while the liberal Protestant thought it was wonderful that Pope Francis seemed so liberal to her. I couldn’t help but think what exactly was the point of either of them going to church at all?
Is this some anti-Semitic in-joke?
It ultimately boils down to a question of does one believe the Bible to be true or not?
You, SoConPubbie, and in essence parroted by Tax-Chick and Manc, replied: "Stupid question."
I beg to disagree.
Reformation Fan's question cuts straight to the issue at hand and is the core question which must be answered -- by Christians and non-Christians alike.
Sadly too many who call themselves "Christians" yet pick and choose what they want to believe about the Bible, essentially create a god in their image, instead of worshiping the God of the Bible who created us all in His image.
The penchant for creating god in one's own image is part and parcel of evolutionary dogma where man creates himself from slime and evolves into the glimmering self-important godless egotist he becomes.
I contend that this same evolutionary dogma is at the foundation of what is to be found leading to this present day societal reversal which in turn is leading us to a redefining of "marriage" not how God established it but how man chooses to manipulate the term "marriage." Man does this to serve his own lust of convenience, not in any way intended to affirm how God Himself both ordained and designed the institution to be a reflection of His relationship to the Church.
Again sadly there are too many Christians beguiled into a functional infidelity with Christ, who have bought the lie that society's social "scientists" have won the evolutionary argument and they meekly knuckle under to a redefining of "love thy neighbor" as merely "go along to get along" without standing for the Truth found in the Word of God -- even as we are commanded to do in Ephesians 6.
FReegards!
Read the bible and you’ll figure it out.
Paul refers to this when he says,
Romans 2:15
"They [Gentiles who do not have the Law] show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them"
I think I’ve misunderstood the whole discussion. I was not saying Reformation Man’s question was stupid, but rather that the question in the headline is stupid.
I thought that was the topic.
Oops.
This is an excellent article, thank you for posting. I believe what it truly boils down to is “Does God love us?” My answer is always “yes”. Which means that God tells us right from wrong because of that love. He knows the enemy is death and He shows us the way we can have life. A life of the spirit that rejects the vanity of the World,the Flesh, and the Devil.
The Bible is true and for Christians to decide its wisdom and truth do not suit the times shows a narcissism that is not unique to this age but which has been allowed to grow aggressive with the help of the media, the elite, and even our own churches.
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