“In the nicest way possible, I say BS.”
With love and a affection...you’re a dolt.
Your post gave me a laugh, but you made no case.
When you’re able to back up the ToP from Scripture, holler back at me.
You jumped to an unjustified conclusion. Evangelical belief in the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement is not an invitation to become a spiritual sloth. Quite the opposite. Yet we are aware it seems paradoxical. The natural man, with no life from God, would take that news just as you say, as an opportunity to sin without consequences. But that message is not for the lost, but for the regenerate and well beloved child of God, whose heart is filled with the impulse of spiritual life, the strong desire to please God, to become imitators of Him, as a child imitates a well-beloved parent.
No, the nastiness is in the concept of an incomplete accomplishment of Christ in dying for us. If that penalty has in fact been paid, then God is unjust in requiring it to be paid a second time. If “it is finished” is true, we cannot make God a liar by denying the completeness of it. All that remains is to appropriate the benefit, which we do by faith in the Son of God, and not by our own discredited deeds.
Yet paradoxically, once we are in Christ, it also obtains that He is in us, and by His Spirit lives out His own righteousness through us, and so transforms us from aliens in darkness to children of the light, who walk in love for Him, for all who belong to Him, and for the lost of the world, that they may come to know Him. Law is fulfilled in love. And so we have both.
Peace,
SR