(September 1, 2016 at 1:22 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 1:21 pm)Drich Wrote: Do you think addiction is a matter of choice?
Maybe it's a choice when your not addicted, and you choose to try it, but when you get hooked it ceases being a choice. That is what I am talking about.
That is why God does not judge our 'morality.' Because we can not help but always sin (or so says Paul in Romans8) but whether or not we have elected the atonement Christ offers or not..
When we accept The atonement Christ offers we take off our morality and trade it for His morality. So when we are Judged we stand before God as Christ would stand before God and be judged.
We Are all sinners our sins of choice (Pride, sexuality based sins, covetousness) makes no matter These things are literally apart of us and we can not abandon them out right. As Paul puts it we are slaves to our sin, and as such there will be a point where we will follow our sin master. Now what seperates the saved from the unsaved, is the unsaved loves/makes provision/excuse for his sin, and the saved hates his sin, seperating the sin from the individual.
So no matter my sins in my life, no matter how degenerate my morality or my actions, if I honestly and genuinely accept the salvation that Jesus has offered, I'll be okay?
Yes, why? because to God All sin is equally deserving of the same fate. We In our religions and in our practice of Self-Righteousness/A Morality or self generated (apart from God) form of righteousness do we get our "grades" for our sins.
God simply identifies sin, which is why He and people who follow Him CAN Indeed separate sin from sinner.
That said there are only two, Blaspheme of the Holy Spirit (which you can not come back from) and not forgiving others as you have been forgiven (which you can amend by learning to forgive) These top His list.
What most of you understand of God and judgement is not biblically based. It is religiously based and you do not understand the difference between the two. God is indeed the embodiment of the sense of righteousness most of you seek at your core. But you can not see it, because rather than seek God first you use the things religion has done as an excuse to avoid Him