"Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus." "but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified."
Would it not be a great sin to receive the body and blood of Christ with unabsolved sins?
Charles Stewart
Then I don't know what the real disagreement is. Protestants (generally) have some kind of doctrine of sanctification and admit to these scriptures. Yet somehow they refuse to acknowledge that the same act of God is working in Catholics and Orthodox. They call the exact same things elsewhere as "works based" churches or something? It's not right.
Jonathan Lopez
That's because you're trying to earn it dummy John 3:16 whoever believes will have eternal life
Parker Powell
Nobody has existential peace if they're living in sin, you eventually have to choose Christ or your vices. Protestants innately know this, but they rationalize their resistance to following God's laws.
Aiden Fisher
Is amusing user? You find it amusing when our hearts bleed for our fallen man and all you can do is snicker behind a screen? How shameful.
No one can know, not until we are judged on death. But we hold to Christ being our savior and that he'll redeem us. Of course passed down by TRADITION, supplies, as in tools to reinforce the spiritual life. Supplements the richness of Faith. Those are somethings sure, but that isn't what I was talking about.
There is great evidence Luther wasn't a healthy Catholic, he tried marrying as a monk, he was wrought with depression and other ailments how you use him for a point is laughable . Buddy, you follow tradition as well. We all have traditions, do you think the Word of God is Living? Or do you think he is Dead, and ungrowing?
I come from a reformed back ground, obviously I know the tradition of Man you take part in. It's also spiritual nourishment in the Catholic Faith, it's just a much bigger deal because we take the Bible much graver, and much deeper.
No need for cursing here, protest ant. We go to confession to reinforce the Faith of our forgiveness. We act out our Faith to one another.
Obviously They flow from the Bible. Obviously. I repent daily, brother. I have peace with God. I do not have peace with who I am, not yet but in Heaven I will. We are made to be in his image and until then I wont be complete, the same to you or any one else
You're being vile, clammoring with your teeth for anothers repentence when you your self are so against it! Hypocrisie! You are the one who bites at sinners when they fall into the lake of torment! You are being no less than the gnashing of teeth.
For hell isn't just a place after death, Men walking today are ones who crawl through the lake of fire and you are the one who snips at their heel no matter the torment there are going through you ensure that it is not enough!
Begone.
Michael Fisher
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Josiah Gray
And just before that in v 3, this act of belief isn't some mere assertion or something so simplistic. "Unless a man be born again [born from above] he can not see the kingdom of God." This goes back to the work the Holy Spirit in our lives again. The Kingdom of God starts NOW, with the Spirit of God in our hearts and lives, renewing our minds. That's what believing in Christ leads to. Classic Protestantism teaches the same thing… and yet they would call that act in everyone else as merely human.
Josiah Price
not everyone is a native english speaker try responding to them instead of mocking them
Henry Morgan
I'm not the one condemning another mans Faith of Christ nor Am I asking for repetence on my behalf.
Kayden Roberts
When you take a superior attitude against your debate opponent you should expect higher scrutiny
