All Trinitarians are Lost!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Abiding Now

Touched a nerve did I? Read it again I said you were viewing the scripture from a "trinitarian view". If that's offensive to you, I apologize and will not post it again. As far as you hypothetical little story, nice, you might use that in a youth service sometime. Please tell how you define this verse.

Joh 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

Thanks.

No you did not touch a nerve and I was not offended. I was exposing YOUR motive and your willingness to lie.

Interesting how you really won't comment on the illustration I gave. I can understand why you didn't though. You gotta keep God's hands tied. Like Jonah, you can't stand the thought of people being in heaven who didn't get every detail right. You want God to burn them.

Concerning John 20:23. This is exemplified in Acts 8....

9 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great,

13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.

18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart.

23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”

Jesus gave the apostles the power to discern who was a true and false covert and to say so publically. That is what John 20:23 is referring to. According to you, the Apostles "forgave" Simon when he was baptized. Yet we see in verse 23 that and that he was still a captive of sin. So much for the Apostle's power to forgive sins.

Furthermore, by your interpretation, John 20:23 would have to include post salvation sins of Christians as well, that you have the authority to forgive a Christian if he sins.

What else can I help you with this evening?