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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
'cause if you do... I'm gonna ZAP ya.
Several points with your bout of genius here. 
1. Pre grace... Still under the law... Jesus was still alive. (Pretty good point huh?)
2. Should we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. We should all strive to find, learn and walk in the ways of our God. What else are we saved from than our ownselves and the sin that following our own will has led us through?
We have grace. We have forgiveness. But should we just keep sinning because we can? Absolutely not. We should strive to walk a way higher than our own. But when we do fail we have an advocate with the Father.
So there is a difference between a worn out place on the Book of Life where God keeps erasing & rewriting our name and someone wanting "salvation" from the consequences of their sin and yet intend on continuing to embrace and practice that sin with no regard for God's way.
The ways of God are foolishness to them that perish. |
I can certainly see how God may get tired of granting grace, over and over again.
We have to forgive 70 times 7 times, but
He never promised to be
that forgiving!
And that fellow also gave some examples of His criteria for judging people, and I'm pretty sure He was looking to the future, in the age of "grace". He mentioned
believing, a few times (
John 3:16, e.g.), but also had some
actions (works) in mind, too. E.g., the sheep and the goats will be separated based on whether they did good works, of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting prisoners, and housing the homeless. If you do, you will be rewarded. If you do not, you will be thrown into the everlasting fire.
Matthew 25.
And some works count, and some don't. Prophesying, casting out devils, and certain (unspecified) "wonderful works" don't count.
Doing the will of God counts. If you don't do the will of God, and bring forth good fruit, into the fire you go.
Matthew 7.
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