3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
I thought Adam’s use of the scriptures was pretty fair. I’m sure he’s doing his best to follow what he is preaching.
I don’t believe it is the quantity of sins themselves that will trip you up but the spirit they are committed in.
For example when I broke some laws years ago in retaliation knowing full well what I was doing was morally and spiritually wrong as well as premeditated I was in a dangerous place spiritually. At the time I justified my actions and even got away with them even when I went to court and admitted what I did. It made it worse, eventually my life spiralled downhill until I ended up in a really bad place and sought forgiveness. From that point I began to grow again spiritually and gradually keep getting better at checking myself. The devil is in us and needs to be kept in check. As soon as you start to take his side and try to justify your sin you are on the slippery slope.
The more you are mature in the spirit the less you can probably get away with. We can chat here all day but only we can keep ourselves in check. The sparring on the forum is opportunity to develop ourselves. Fair play to Adam, he keeps going despite the flack and he does seem to be getting better. Instead of masses of verses he’s hitting hard with a few now. The potential is there, takes time.
I thought Adam’s use of the scriptures was pretty fair. I’m sure he’s doing his best to follow what he is preaching.
I don’t believe it is the quantity of sins themselves that will trip you up but the spirit they are committed in.
For example when I broke some laws years ago in retaliation knowing full well what I was doing was morally and spiritually wrong as well as premeditated I was in a dangerous place spiritually. At the time I justified my actions and even got away with them even when I went to court and admitted what I did. It made it worse, eventually my life spiralled downhill until I ended up in a really bad place and sought forgiveness. From that point I began to grow again spiritually and gradually keep getting better at checking myself. The devil is in us and needs to be kept in check. As soon as you start to take his side and try to justify your sin you are on the slippery slope.
The more you are mature in the spirit the less you can probably get away with. We can chat here all day but only we can keep ourselves in check. The sparring on the forum is opportunity to develop ourselves. Fair play to Adam, he keeps going despite the flack and he does seem to be getting better. Instead of masses of verses he’s hitting hard with a few now. The potential is there, takes time.
I have not called Adam the devil yet nor have I accused him falsely of being a Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Yet this is partial of the flack your dear Adam dishes out.
Yet, somehow Adam is the one taking flack!!
If you think Adam is taking a lot of flack for preaching the historic heresy of perfectionism and other false doctrines then maybe you feel sorry for the Pharisees for all the flack they took from Jesus!!!
3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
Quiznos: Adam, Hitler did some good, so did the banksters that funneled funds to Hitler thru the business called the Catholic church.
Every person does some good in their life, and according to you they are of GOD Almighty.
Is that not what you posted."
Gods word is not clear enough for the disputing spirit?
Who does good is of God, because they can do no evil.
The ones who do evil, can do no good.
quiznos mind is revealed, to think hitlers can do good.
But, again, the evil tree cant do good, and Christ is in us when we are not morally abandoned, and the ones without Christ are reprobates..
Matthew 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
When someone is pure, purified by God, all is pure. The ones who do not really believe likewise, have NOTHING PURE.
The unbelieving profess "belief" in God, but UNTO EVERY GOOD WORK THEY ARE REPROBATE..
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
What flack do I take from quiznosdavid, it is a bit as Marcousse said, it lets us learn more, this is the purpose of God, and it is why I am including myself in it, for now.
But, the devil cannot be in the same place as Christ, the devil is seen being cast out by Christ, not to come and cure some of the Israelites, but so we believe in having the devil removed from us, to never return, and hence the words go and sin no more, as that is the devil returning and is worse than the beginning, as we lost the chance of life with Christ.
Matthew 12:45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Adam, you know nothing of Hitler, it would do you good to learn a bit of real history, not the false stuff you have read in the books in the government brainwashing institutes called schools.
