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Originally Posted by deacon blues
Mistakes? Or sins? Of course one should be growing up into the stature of Christ.
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1 Timothy 1:13 Paul said he was formerly a blasphemer, a violent persecutor of the church. But states that he received mercy because I he acted ignorantly in unbelief? Those are mistakes he was admitting to as he was a worshipper of the one true God. Repentance was part of the OT way before there was a John Calvin, or Martin Luther. The Israeli had to repent for their ignorance, and their mistakes
2 Chronicles 7:14.
2 Chronicles 7:14 is how the Judean or Israeli stayed in communion with their God. This is why Rabbis laugh at what you believe. Not that I'm a big fan of Rabbinical Judaism, but you don't have the foggiest idea how their soteriology worked in the Old Covenant, or how the blood of the Lamb of God would precure their salvation in their future. You say of course that one should grow up in the stature of Christ, but then a few lines down you defend Paul as the First of all Sinners of the First Century Church? How do you reconcile First of All who Sin, with the Stature of Christ? You don't. You end up with something that people just listen to you pump that over a pulpit, get a glazed look over their eyes, while thinking "oh, well, I'm saved" Doesn't work DB.
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