Originally posted by Rajk999And yet, in your many scathing rebukes of other Christians here, you assume that no good works are being done. What good is 'privacy' if you then just assume whatever you want? I make no such assumptions.
I have never ever mentioned anything about what I do personally in any public forum. I follow a very strict privacy policy. I dont ask and I dont tell. Whatever I do is a private matter between me and God. You are not party to that, sorry. So your comment about me boasting is nonsense.
Originally posted by Rajk999'True meaning'??
eg Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
People like you ignore the part about 'believe in thine heart'. The true meaning of that expression to believe in your heart is to, obey, act, repent of past sins and live a life of good works.
Uh huh. And the JWs believe that they are the only True Christians™, too.
I'm afraid you do not have a monopoly on truth, either.
If you take the time to notice, in your post you are railing against others who only seem to believe half of a verse. Well, looky here. You open your mouth about "true meaning" yet you obviously don't finish the verse in your "true meaning". "... and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead...". The italicized part here (which you must have missed) is what you are being asked to "believe in thine heart". Yet, of course, in your vanity, only you know the "true meaning".
"The Goal of Life"
Philippians 3:1-21 "1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you. 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the [a] false circumcision; 3 for we are the true [b) circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, 4 although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more: 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless. 7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss [c] in view of the surpassing value of [d] knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, [e] for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and [f] the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; 11 [g] in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on [h] so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 [i]I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are [j] perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; 16 however, let us keep [k] living by that same standard to which we have attained. 17 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us.
18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their [l] appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our [m] citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform [n] the body of our humble state into conformity with [o] the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself." Philippians 3:1-21 New American Standard Bible
Footnotes:
a. Philippians 3:2 Lit mutilation; Gr katatome; b. Philippians 3:3 Gr peritome; c. Philippians 3:8 Lit because of; d. Philippians 3:8 Lit the knowledge of; e. Philippians 3:8 Lit because of; f. Philippians 3:10 Or participation in; g. Philippians 3:11 Lit if somehow; h. Philippians 3:12 Lit if I may even; i. Philippians 3:12 Or because also; j.Philippians 3:15 Or mature; k. Philippians 3:16 Lit following in line; l. Philippians 3:19 Lit belly; m. Philippians 3:20 Lit commonwealth; n. Philippians 3:21 Or our lowly body; o. Philippians 3:21 Or His glorious body.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3:1-3:21