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[Jason B]

Originally Posted by NotforSale

This is the slippery slope to a "Works Based" Religion.

Not at all. The work is done by Jesus Christ. His righteousness is accounted to me by faith. What can I do to add to Christ's righteousness? Nothing. Even if I were capable of living sinlessly the rest if my life I couldn't add to His righteousness. So I rest in His grace and mercy and in God's tremendous forgiveness. I desire and attempt to live a godly life but not so that I can or will be saved, but because He already saved me, He took away my sins, He placed His Spirit within me and so when I live my life to glorify Him I do so out if gratitude not fear of hell or punishment. When I sin I'm heart broken, not because I'm worried I will go to hell but because I hate sin and I have dishonored God. So I seek Him in repentance confessing my sin and leaning on His strength rather than my own.

Unlike many here I post with my real name. My Facebook profile is open. Anyone that wants to know something about me can. I love life. I love the freedom I have in Christ. I know what it is to live in sin and unbelief because I wasn't raised in any church. Just because there are errant expressions of Christianity doesn't mean there isn't a true. I think many of us have been the victims in some sense of bad doctrine which breeds either fear, uncertainty, legalism or all of the above....but that's not biblical Christianity.