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There's only a "lure" to sin if you're weak-minded. You have to allow it to control you, and/or allow yourself to be a victim of it. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to participate in it.
The Bible tells us that all scripture is inspired of the Lord and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
"smorgasborg religion" picks and chooses out of the Bible what it wants to believe and feels justified in rejecting certain doctrines in the Bible.
Why study the Bible at all? Make up your own religion and use your own words to describe it instead of stealing words from Jesus Christ and the apostles to make up your own religion.
I believe we should study the bible, but each is given their own bit as we are told in Corinthians (Greek)
Interpretations is what has been built upon over the past 2 millennium by those using the name Christian
In Ephesians it is not the flesh and blood we are warring with, but with the hierarchy
Eph 6:12**For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13**Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
And according to James it is those who come under the greater condemnation
Taming the Tongue
Jas 3:1**My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Jas 3:2**For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Mat 25:46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
For if "everlasting" here means "age-abiding", then John 3:16 only promises "age-abiding" life;...
And your spiritual life that you have received from God, if you have received it, will end when the age ends.
Again, we are currently in the age of grace; which will end when the Great Tribulation begins.
So, as soon as the age of grace ends, your spiritual life will end.
That means that you will go through the Great Tribulation (read the Book of Revelation for details).
[It] is dealing with the qualityof that life, nothing about an eternity of life or punishment. No doubt you will spend some time in the Lake of fire to remove the false doctrine that you hold dear to your mind and heart before joining everyone else throughout the ages to come.
I believe we should study the bible, but each is given their own bit as we are told in Corinthians (Greek)
Interpretations is what has been built upon over the past 2 millennium by those using the name Christian
In Ephesians it is not the flesh and blood we are warring with, but with the hierarchy
Eph 6:12**For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13**Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
And according to James it is those who come under the greater condemnation
Taming the Tongue
Jas 3:1**My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Jas 3:2**For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
A better way of looking at that verse is to understand it to mean that teachers shall incur a stricter judgment.
Of course, if a man is called to the ministry, he cannot help but preach the word of the Lord as he understands it. If he didn't, he would be like the slothful and lazy servant who took his talent and hid it in the sand.
The called minister says with Paul therefore, "Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!" (1 Corinthians 9:16)
I have known the terror of the Lord; however I do not experience it on a regular basis. It only comes into effect when I begin to get close to the edge of those boundaries that God has set for me to walk in.
Terror of the Lord, huh? Getting close to the edge? Sounds like hanging out more in the camp of the guy with the red pitchfork than the loving / forgiving savior.
[It] is dealing with the qualityof that life, nothing about an eternity of life or punishment. No doubt you will spend some time in the Lake of fire to remove the false doctrine that you hold dear to your mind and heart before joining everyone else throughout the ages to come.
That would be a wonderful way for God to prove to me that the lake of fire doesn't exist.
Terror of the Lord, huh? Getting close to the edge? Someone like hanging out more in the camp of the guy with the red pitchfork than the loving / forgiving savior.
A lot of people do seem to have this idea that Jesus is some namby-pamby guy who does not have any judgment or ability to carry it out.
They will be in for a rude awakening on their day of judgment; if that understanding leads them to sin against Him and never to come to repentance.
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