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Originally Posted by shazeep
this is not correct, i never said no one can know how to be saved. What i said was (1) seek your own salvation, and if you think people you have never met are lost, and need your help to get saved, or have to come to salvation the way you understand it, then you are violating a whole host of Scripture, including seek your own salvation.
(2) Christ is a Spirit, and cannot be worshipped with words. It does not matter how much you insist on some declaration about the Cross, if you then leave the mirror and immediately forget what you look like, which is what "Everyone who does not listen to me is lost" is doing. And why every time i post a quote from Christ, you have to disown it, and every time you paint yourself into a corner, you have to leave that thread for a few days, and go try somewhere else, just like what is going to happen here.
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That's what happens to YOU when YOU DON"T read the scriptures.
People like you come into a Christian forum with preconceived ideas
and notions, your mind filled from many sources that don't know the
difference between content and context. It's really sad. Let me try
to help you guys.
(1) The Apostle Paul was writing to Christians in Phillipi (those who had
embraced the gospel that saves) when he wrote,
". . . now much more in
my absence, WORK OUT your own salvation with fear and trembling." You
see, they already KNEW the gospel that saves; and they KNEW the doctrine
that would KEEP them saved. They KNEW there was a COMMON salvation;
that is, ONE gospel; ONE way to be saved. If you had DARED to read the
scriptures with an open heart, you also would have known that.
(2) Christ is referred to as
". . . the MAN, Christ Jesus . . ."; he is the one
born of a virgin, in Bethlehem of Judah. This neither nullifies nor detracts
from his divinity, but only points to him as
". . . the Lamb of God that takes
away the sin of the world." God (the Father outside of the flesh) IS SPIRIT.
As for the mirror, the believer has looked into it and we have seen our own
faults. Where you have erred, is when we have held up the mirror to show
it to you: you think you are looking at our faults, instead of seeing your own!
"Judge RIGHTEOUS judgment."
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