Posted on 11/26/2025 5:44:08 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Mat 5:19 So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 5:20 “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
to paraphrase: If you can keep the laws and teach others to keep them, there will be a celebration in heaven. but.................. you can’t do it. The good news is there is another way.
In that passage, the lost talk about their works, not the Savior and the grace bestowed upon them.
It reveals who you think Jesus is. Just a man or..............
I plan on bowing down and saying, “I bring nothing to the table, just you.”
One view is unjust, one is merciful and loving.
We all deserve justice.
In fact, without justice there cannot be mercy. Who needs mercy if there is no justice.
If you consider yourself saved, what are you saved from?
You are saved from God’s wrath.
You are saved from God by God. Think about that.
We all deserve God’s wrath. You may not like that, but that is the TRUTH. All have fallen short.
God chooses at his great pleasure. That’s not fair, says the pot to the potter.
The reality is if God didn’t choose some, none would be save.
Sounds calvinistic.
Sounds like Paul’s teachings in the letter to the Romans.
We must still accept His free gift to us.
Romans 9:14-24 (ESV)
[14] What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!
[15] For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
[16] So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. [17] For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
[18] So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
[19] You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
[20] But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
[21] Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
[22] What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
[23] in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
[24] even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Forgot to include you to my previous post.
OK, so you are a calvinist who misinterprets Scripture.
ShadowAce,
I’m surprised. I didn’t think you would resort to ad hominem.
So, what does that passage mean?
And you rejected the body of Christ, his church. Enjoy the consequences Protestants!
If you consider yourself saved, what are you saved from?
It's not ad hominem. I was referring to the calvinsim belief that misinterprets Scripture.
So, what does that passage mean?
It does not refer to Salvation, but how we are made, our conditions in life, and what we go through.
At best, we will have to agree to disagree.
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