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To: ealgeone

Sounds to me like you’ve got a guilty conscience.

Perhaps that’s the allure of Protestantism ... you can live your life as you see fit, do what you want to do, when you want to do it, and then, when the bill comes due, say “No problemo - I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior decades ago. Bill paid-in-full. No skin off my nose.”


516 posted on 07/15/2014 11:11:56 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring; ealgeone
>>Perhaps that’s the allure of Protestantism ... you can live your life as you see fit, do what you want to do, when you want to do it, and then, when the bill comes due, say “No problemo - I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior decades ago. Bill paid-in-full. No skin off my nose.”<<

That sir, is the statement of a person who has no concept or familiarity of what the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is or causes. In that regard I would get down on my knees and beg for the Holy Spirit to enlighten if I were you.

521 posted on 07/15/2014 11:31:09 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: DuncanWaring; EagleOne
Perhaps that’s the allure of Protestantism ... you can live your life as you see fit, do what you want to do, when you want to do it, and then, when the bill comes due, say “No problemo - I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior decades ago. Bill paid-in-full. No skin off my nose.”

You mean like Ted Kennedy and Chavez, who *repented* at the end and got their Catholic church blessed funerals?

526 posted on 07/15/2014 11:39:11 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: DuncanWaring
Sounds to me like you’ve got a guilty conscience. Perhaps that’s the allure of Protestantism ... you can live your life as you see fit, do what you want to do, when you want to do it, and then, when the bill comes due, say “No problemo - I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior decades ago. Bill paid-in-full. No skin off my nose.”

You're partly right...I am guilty based on God's Word. I sin daily in some form or fashion. It is a reminder that no matter how good I try to be, I fall short of the glory of God. However, the Good News is, I am completely forgiven based belief in Christ as noted in God's Word.

The "bill" as you more correctly call it that you may realize, "is paid in full".

Colossians 2:13-14

When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,

14having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

If you look at a Greek interlinear the english "having canceled" is "having blotted out" in the Greek. It means to completely wipe away or obliterate.

The Greek translates the decrees against us as "handwriting in the decrees". The word for handrwriting indicates a legal note, or bond. In the Mosaic law it shows men to be chargeable with offences for which they must pay the penalty.

The verb tense in "He has taken" is in the perfect form. It is a completed action. It's done.

In Roman times a freed prisoner would have a paper with him that showed his crimes had been paid for in case the authorities questioned him.

What is this telling us? The sins/crimes we were guilty of, Christ has completely blotted these out and has nailed them to the cross. There is nothing else that can be done for our sins.

Is it a license to sin? No, sir. Just as Paul noted in Romans 6. Need to read the whole chapter to understand it. Not going to post it as I think we have resources to access it.

530 posted on 07/15/2014 11:43:45 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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