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To: MHGinTN
You cannot, as a cultist, comprehend that Jesus paid for ALL my sin when I was born again. WHY? Why ought we see that 'all' given as His Grace to us? Because that perspective does not seek to gain any glory or reward for my behaviors, leaving ALL the glory to Jesus Who offers eternal life to us as Grace, not by works. As a cultist that is the great stumbling stone for you.

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I will add to your comment that any cult or Christian falsehood steals from that given to Israel - which they could never fulfill - and attempts to clamp it like leg irons on the church to enslave them, is a false teacher. That message cannot save.

This issue was dealt with definitively in Acts 15, at the Council of Jerusalem...

The Council’s Letter to Gentile Believers

22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers. 23 With them they sent the following letter:

The apostles and elders, your brothers,

To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:

Greetings.

24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said.

25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:

29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.

Farewell.

This was the totality of requirements the Church leadership wrote under inspiration of the Spirit to new gentile believers. Nothing about fulfilling the law. Nothing beyond this guidance .

And were these things required for them to be saved?????

NO.

Again, Peter, stood up and gave this account...

After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them:

“Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10

Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”

Anyone teaching beyond the inspired message of the Apostles is not communicating the Apostolic teaching, but either cultic works, of perverted pseudo christianity. As such, they and their religion are to be rejected by Christians.

Hear His Word. Obey it. Treasure it. Do not add to it or pervert it.

166 posted on 03/11/2022 8:24:21 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

GMTA.


168 posted on 03/11/2022 10:20:15 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

How DARE you actually quote from the Book!


176 posted on 03/11/2022 5:58:10 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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