[Larry Lucido]

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[CharlesOConnell]

I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling. Jesus told some who think they’re saved “I never knew you”. It’s in a story Revelation by Flannery O’connor read here by Studs Terkel. http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/flannery-oconnors-short-story-revelation-read-by-studs-terkel.html

[Responsibility2nd]

More false doctrine by a bot that never responds.

[G Larry]

Hebrews 6:4-6 “For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.”


1 Corinthians 9:27 “…but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified.”

2 Timothy 2:12 “if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he will also deny us;”

Philippians 2:12 “Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence, but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.”


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Where is confession, repentance, and obedience?

[daniel1212]

Therefore, by faith alone in Christ’s sacrifice for our sins and belief in His resurrection, man can gain eternal life.

Actually, it is effectual living faith in the Person, the risen Lord Jesus who died for our sins and rose again that is counted for righteousness, not just faith in a work He did or in a promise, abstract from who and what He is.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9-10)

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:14-16)

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. (John 3:36)

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25-26)

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house. (Acts 16:31-34)

[Elsie]

You can have confidence you are saved.

Unless you are a person who has chosen to be a Catholic.

Then you can have confidence that all the unique Catholic rules will keep you in a state that salvation will be granted to you at sometime in the future.

[Da_Shrimp]

Is there any remnant of Christianity that is NOT dominated by the teachings of Paul?

I have read a lot of criticism of him, not least that he was rejected by the Church at Ephesus, which is then praised in Revelation 2:2 for 'rejecting those who call themselves Apostles and are not, and found them to be false.'