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1 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | goodnewsminister | 86121 | ||
It's not a bad thing, but the Fear of God is the reverential fear, not the morbid fear of death or hellfire, for the Scriptures say that 'God hath not given us a Spirit of fear, but of a sound mind' and the fear of the Lord is the respect, honor and love of God, not fear in the worldly sense of the word. The Bible says that 'fear hath torment' and it is not God's desire to torment us mentally, nor physically. God bless, Good News Minister |
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2 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | John Reformed | 86148 | ||
Dear Friend, Rom 8:15 is addressed to the saints who have been adopted; not to the rest who are called "the children of wrath". "For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" The "good news" of the gospel begins with the bad news that mankind, apart from faith in Christ is doomed to hellfire! Matt 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. To those whom God has chosen, the gospel is the power of salvation. They hear and are rightly terrified by the prospect of spending eternity in torment. The good news is that Christ has provided Himself as a sacrifice and a propitiation for them. Repentance and faith follow the hearing of the gospel, to those who God draws to His Son. The rest consider it foolishness and continue in their wicked rebellion against their King. No one is saved by fear. All are saved by grace. Fear is just the natural reaction one experiences when he realizes the consequence of his sin. Certain doctrines, such as eternal damnation, rub us the wrong way. We would wish them away if we could. But we cannot. Therefore we are left to trust in God's justice, righteousness and holiness, or try to twist the Word into what is more appealing to the carnal nature. Believe me when I say that I have agonized over the thought of hell as I have over other hard truths that go against the grain. In the end, I have found peace in submitting to what the Bible says. Who am I to question what God has done? Rom 9:13-33 Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. As He says also in Hosea, "I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, 'MY PEOPLE,' AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, 'BELOVED.'" "AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, 'YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,' THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD." Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY." And just as Isaiah foretold, "UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY, WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH." What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, just as it is written, "BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE, AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED." As you value your immortal soul, make certain that you do not preach a gospel that is different from that which Paul preached. John Reformed |
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3 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | goodnewsminister | 86246 | ||
Dear John Reformed, I thank you for your concern and for your kind, Christian comments. I truly LOVE all of you dear, precious people on this board, this is why I came here to proclaim the GOOD NEWS, in stark contrast to the BAD NEWS that many of you have been taught to believe by your churches. Let's proceed with an examination of your post. You start off saying,"The "good news" of the gospel begins with the bad news that mankind, apart from faith in Christ is doomed to hellfire!" Yes, in your very next breath, you quote a verse that is diametrically opposed to the point your just made, let us READ WHAT IT SAYS, Matt 10:28 "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Yes, fear Him, God, Who IS ABLE, to DESTROY [not preserve alive, but to utterly destroy] BOTH soul [hum? I thought it was IMMORTAL? Guess not!] and body in HELL! Yes, God is ABLE to DO what you have been misTaught namely, He CAN and WILL DESTORY, not preserve alive, BOTH soul and body in HELL! The Greek word used here is Gehenna, the Jews to whom our Lord was speaking knew where this place was, as it was a reference to the Valley of Hinnom just outside of Jerusalem's walls where the dead carcasses of condemn criminals and the trash of the city was thrown and to which fire and brimstone were added to keep the flames burning and whatever the fire did not DESTROY, the maggot ate for food. They well knew that this represented UTTER and EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION, as the one's thrown there were UNFIT for a memorial tomb, symbolic of their not being worthy of a burial tomb because they were thought to be unworthy of a resurrection. Another verse that you quote brings up another subject: "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION" - Precisely correct! Yes, this very verse that you quote shows us that "...He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires." Yes, our loving God has mercy on those Whom He chooses to have mercy, and He HARDENS those whom he chooses to harden, for his Name sake! However, you're belief in a place of eternal torment, where people who do not KNOW GOD and/or reject His Son go to spend all of eternity when perhaps it was God HIMSELF who harden their hearts so that they WOULD NOT SEE! So you're beliefs blaspheme the very GOD you proclaim to worship by saying that HE HARDENS those whom He chooses just so HE can roast them in HELLFIRE for all eternity through NO FAULT of their own! Such is the SUM of blasphemy! Such fowl doctrine comes from only ONE PLACE, ONE SOURCE, ONE PERSONAGE, namely, Satan the Devil, the 'god of this world', 'who hath blinded the MINDS of them which believe NOT' lest the glorious gospel about Christ should shine unto them. Such is the sum of Calvinism, the damnable heresy of John Calvin the Reformer. Yes, such doctrines does not line up with other Scriptures that state that," 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Yes, our God desires that ALL come to repentence and faith in His dear Son, and that NONE should perish. I think you have not been able to comprehend 'election' and 'free grace', as there is a difference and the Bible does have the answer on how these exist harmoniously together. We worship not a demon-god, but the God of all Creation! Praise be to His Name! The GOOD NEWS MINISTER! |
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4 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | John Reformed | 86253 | ||
Friend, I see no further point in pursuing our conversation. I believe that you are in error and that your doctrines are heretical. I wish you no ill and bear no grudge. Perhaps God will grant you repentence. I pray that He will. John Reformed |
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5 | Prove all things hold fast to the good.. | 1 Cor 15:1 | goodnewsminister | 86465 | ||
Dear John, I understand and I appreciate your expressions of Christian love and concern for me. I have truly enjoyed our discussions together. Peace I leave you, His peace. In Him awaiting the Coming Kingdom, The GOOD NEWS MINISTER |
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