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NASB | 1 Corinthians 6:9 ¶ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 6:9 ¶ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality, |
Subject: Does sin prove one is not a believer? |
Bible Note: Dear David, You write, "Are you saying sins that dont even exist can be forgiven? Jesus died to forgive something that doesnt exist?" (sic) The atonement is an incredibly difficult thing to have been accomplished. It required the work of God Himself based on a divine plan that was formed before time was even created! After accomplishing all that, why it would be an issue for Christ to have died for all the sin of man from the first sin of Adam to the last sin of the last of the elect completely misses the mark! You go on to suggest that your eisegesis is correct because of potential abuse of the doctrine. Abuse of the truth never makes truth untrue. Sin is infinitely horrendous any way you slice it. To suggest that those who hold to the doctrine of the justification of faith are minimizing sin is purely an ad hominem argument. This is mischaracterizing the doctrines of grace, and asserting a form of auto-soterism that is unknown to scripture. In Him, Doc "God doth continue to forgive the sins of those that are justified, and although they can never fall from the state of justification, yet they may, by their sins, fall under God's fatherly displeasure; and in that condition they have not usually the light of His countenance restored unto them, until they humble themselves, confess their sins, beg pardon, and renew their faith and repentance. (Matthew 6:12; 1 John 1:7, 9; John 10:28; Psalms 89:31-33; Psalms 32:5; Psalms 51; Matthew 26:75)" --LBCF, Chapter 12, paragraph 5 "We say Christ so died that he infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved." --Charles Hadon Spurgeon "We are creatures of time, and often fail to take into consideration the fact that God is not limited as we are. That which appears to us as past, present, and future, is all present to His mind." --Lorraine Boetner "To the extent that we forget that our status before God is due to what Christ has done for us, we will try to make out own relationship with God depend on winning His approval." --Ranald Macaulay |