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for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Just like Paul says.
The PATTERN of Paul is that of a horrific sinner who ended up obeying and Jesus saved.
That is the pattern of Paul.
for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Just like Paul says.
NOBODY is obedience enough to EARN salvation, not even the great you.God gives the gift of eternal life to His children. You have to become His child to get the gift of eternal life.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Sorry but God is NOT your FATHER until He makes you His child.
Jesus tells you how to be His child.
I do what Jesus says.
Do you do Luke 12:33?The Catholics don't do what Jesus says to do.
I do what Jesus says.
Jesus says don't call any brother in Christ 'father'.
God says don't bow to statues.
God says there is only one mediator.
And many other things.
God gives the gift of eternal life to His children. You have to become His child to get the gift of eternal life.
He didn't save you if you have to keep repenting to keep yourself saved. Make up your mind which you believe.
Is Col 2:13 true for you?
HEREAFTER.... Why did God wait thousands of years to give the PATTERN?The PATTERN of Paul is that of a horrific sinner who ended up obeying and Jesus saved.
That is the pattern of Paul.
Paul says to work out your salvation and to train yourself.
Don't you believe Paul?
Did you read how that scripture says I was not circumcised but was saved?
That scripture says exactly what it says.
You should just listen to the Holy Spirit because your false teachers got it wrong.
Now tell me, does the scripture not say in your UNcircumcised flesh?
That scripture is about NOT having to do the purification works before Jesus would save you, as the Jews all believed that God would only save the circumcised.
Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—“Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,”which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? - Colossians 2:20-22 http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians2:20-22&version=NKJV
Yup.Yes I do, I don't twist his words like you do.
To work OUT assumes it's already there. It does not mean to work FOR, which is what you're doing, just like a good Catholic.
Is Col 2:13 true for you? Have you been forgiven ALL your trespasses?
Yes or no.
Paul is speaking about not being talked into doing the purification works.
The purification works were a matter of not touching unclean people and worrying about what you eat and drink.
Yup.
Paul means to exercise one's salvation.
It doesn't mean, "work out how to do something," it means work out, like one would go to a gym to work out his muscles.
You can't work out your muscles if you don't have any.
You can't work out your salvation if you're not saved.
I have been forgiven of all my sins.
If I did sin, I could repent of that sin and be forgiven
Paul says work out your salvation as get rid of any sins that you might still have or have fallen back into.
Paul says that those training for a boxing match train harder than what a person does for salvation.
He also says that you have not stopped a sin to the point of shedding blood.
Paul makes absolutely no such distinction in ANY of his epistles.
Again, Paul doesn't make the distinction. Works are works. You keep one law, you must keep them all. You don't get to pick and choose which ones to keep whenever you feel like it. If you break one, you are guilty of breaking the entire law.
By the way, I'm still waiting on a response to my multi-paragraph post. Are you still preparing a reply to it?
You don't even see it, do you.