We have to Be perfect in order to make heaven

[Aquila]

I love you too Michael. You is one crazy brotha. You scare us sometimes... but no doubt you also scare Hell. I want you in my foxhole.

[Aquila]

Love you NorCal. Your love for holiness shines through every post I've read.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Aquila

I love you too TGBTG. I love the simplicity of your posts. Sometimes you drop a sentence that speaks volumes.

Originally Posted by Aquila

I love too Pendragon. Your balance is inspiring.

Originally Posted by Aquila

I love you too Michael. You is one crazy brotha. You scare us sometimes... but no doubt you also scare Hell. I want you in my foxhole.

Originally Posted by Aquila

Love you NorCal. Your love for holiness shines through every post I've read.

[mfblume]

Love you guys, too, and TIMMY AS WELL!

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by mfblume

Love you guys, too, and TIMMY AS WELL!

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Sorry Timmy! I value your sense of humor and willingness to challenge our religious assumptions. Helps to stimulate deeper thoughts on every subject we discuss.

[Timmy]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Sorry Timmy! I value your sense of humor and willingness to challenge our religious assumptions. Helps to stimulate deeper thoughts on every subject we discuss.

[Michael The Disciple]

For Luke and MTD, what makes you sure you are gonna be in heaven?

Please tell us.

Well that would probably involve making a new thread being there is much to be said about it. This thread was started by a man who read with his own eyes in the holy scriptures that Jesus said there were things happening in the Churches of Revelation that prompted him to say unless they repented they would be lost.

I was simply assuring him he was reading it accurately. I can give you a short version of how one can know they will be in the Kingdom.

2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:17

[TGBTG]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Well that would probably involve making a new thread being there is much to be said about it. This thread was started by a man who read with his own eyes in the holy scriptures that Jesus said there were things happening in the Churches of Revelation that prompted him to say unless they repented they would be lost.

I was simply assuring him he was reading it accurately. I can give you a short version of how one can know they will be in the Kingdom.

2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:17

ok, maybe we should start a new thread about that then...we've already hijacked this one though...

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

Well that would probably involve making a new thread being there is much to be said about it. This thread was started by a man who read with his own eyes in the holy scriptures that Jesus said there were things happening in the Churches of Revelation that prompted him to say unless they repented they would be lost.

I was simply assuring him he was reading it accurately. I can give you a short version of how one can know they will be in the Kingdom.

2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 1 John 2:17

I think we all agree that he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.

I think we don't fully agree on what the will of God is. Do we do the will of God out of "effort to be righteous"... or "by nature because we are in Christ our righteousness"?

This is the difference between the ideas of being righteous by our works vs. appropriating the truth that we are a new creature with imputed righteousness, partakers in the divine nature, one with Christ Jesus, and being formed into His likenss... all by the Father's hands according to His grace.