Paul on the importance of the Law

Of course in preaching the Gospel the awfulness of sin is good to paint as a background to the wonderfulness of the Lord and Savior Jesus.


Such people who claim to be Christians are wolves in sheep's clothing. They need to be identified and rebuked publicly for all to see.

Agreed?
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That may be necessary. I may rebuke you if I find your "gospel" is perverted, ie. exalting some tradition of your cultural background rather than exalting Jesus Christ.

You may rebuke me too. Only Jesus is absolutely for the will of the Father. So we should have our hands full of Christ, and turn always to Christ, and exalt always Christ.

Often to be an example is rebuke enough. You live Christ and be the light of the world.

The churches in Revelation were seven golden lampstands. Lampstands are for shinning out the light of testimony. In the dark night men and women in a community walking by and living by Christ will be a lampstand of testimony. Other things will be exposed in this light.

Your gospel is very much cultivating hatred for liberals, and more hatred for liberals, and more and more hatred for liberals. After a while people will wonder what it is you are being fed. Have you just returned from an alt-right skinhead meeting of some kind ?

Christians should always give the impression that they have just been with Jesus.

" And as they beheld the boldness of Peter and John ... they marveled and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus." (See Acts 4:13)

Originally posted by @sonship
Your gospel is very much cultivating hatred for liberals, and more hatred for liberals, and more and more hatred for liberals. After a while people will wonder what it is you are being fed. Have you just returned from an ult-right skinhead meeting of some kind ?

Originally posted by @fmf
You say all this kind of thing to Eladar and yet also refuse to say whether you think he is a better or worse Christian than you or whether Jesus "flows out" of him - a claim you made about defining Christians - on threads about those very subjects. You fobbed me off saying that you didn't want to say anything divisive. So what's the stuff above all about now, then?

Originally posted by @sonship
Of course in preaching the Gospel the awfulness of sin is good to paint as a background to the wonderfulness of the Lord and Savior Jesus.

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Such people who claim to be Christians are wolves in sheep's clothing. They need to be identified and rebuked publicly for all to see.

Agreed?
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Often to be an example is rebuke enough. You live Christ and be the light of the world.[/b]

Originally posted by @sonship
The stuff above is about JESUS !.

Originally posted by @sonship
You seem to want to bring up again and again the matter of the flowing out of the Spirit of Christ. Maybe I'll open a thread on that sometime.

Originally posted by @ragwort
As I see it Jesus spent a significant proportion of the Gospels countering the legalistic views of the Pharisees with pithy one liners and parables in his attempts to show that God was not some grumpy vindictive Sinai mountain god but the God of love and forgiveness. Both Jesus and Paul in many places have talked about the need not to judge including in Rom ...[text shortened]... h is that eventually everyone who is not worthy is crossed out leaving you in a minority of one.

Originally posted by @sonship
[b]Just hating sin is not enough that is true but it is required.
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Required for what?

If you draw near to the living God, loving Him, hatred for what draws you away from God will be a byproduct.


If you do not hate sin it is because you do not recognize it as sin. If you do ...[text shortened]... Lord may i see through Your eyes and choose through Your deciding. Christ , LIVE in me. [/quote]

Originally posted by @fmf
No. The 'stuff above' was what I had quoted, which was this:

[b]"Your gospel is very much cultivating hatred for liberals, and more hatred for liberals, and more and more hatred for liberals. After a while people will wonder what it is you are being fed. Have you just returned from an ult-right skinhead meeting of some kind ?"

That was about Eladar and not Jesus.[/b]

Your gospel is very much cultivating hatred for liberals, and more hatred for liberals, and more and more hatred for liberals. After a while people will wonder what it is you are being fed. Have you just returned from an alt-right skinhead meeting of some kind ?

Christians should always give the impression that they have just been with Jesus.

" And as they beheld the boldness of Peter and John ... they marveled and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus." (See Acts 4:13)

Originally posted by @sonship
The churches in Revelation were seven golden lampstands. Lampstands are for shinning out the light of testimony. In the dark night men and women in a community walking by and living by Christ will be a lampstand of testimony. Other things will be exposed in this light.

Your gospel is very much cultivating hatred for liberals, and more hatred for libera ...[text shortened]... marveled and they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus." (See Acts 4:13) [/quote][/b]

Originally posted by @eladar
We are to love the liberal just hate the lies he spews. You should know that.

Yes Conservatives can go off the deep end too. Both liberals and many conservatives do not know God.

Originally posted by @handyandy
You're way off the deep end, boy. If Jesus were alive today he'd be a Liberal Democrat.

Originally posted by @eladar
You believe Jesus supports the killing of unborn children and homosexual marriages?

If so this is just one example of why your name will not be in the book of life.

Originally posted by @eladar
You believe Jesus supports the killing of unborn children and homosexual marriages?

If so this is just one example of why your name will not be in the book of life.