(August 5, 2014 at 8:05 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: You won't get that redemption, because you aren't even trying to contain the evil that is in your heart. Indeed, you are spending considerable effort justifying why you need to make no effort. You act as if merely putting on a show and saying the right words is enough. Christ makes it very clear that it's not. You are choosing to ignore the law and not follow it, and you teach others to do the same. This makes your seeking of redemption very obviously insincere. Unless your savior is an idiot, he's not going to forgive anybody who doesn't even try to behave like they deserve forgiveness.are you speaking to me here? Where did I say we are to keep sinning?
Might as well just drop the pretense and be a godless hedonist, for all it will earn you in the end.
I said adherence to the law is no long a viable means to righteousness. I didn't say we were to ignore it completely. Rather we follow the law as an expression of Love to God. Not as a means to earn our way to righteousness.
Quote:If you sought forgiveness from your wife but still kept doing it, how likely is it that you're going to be together in the end?When you are married, and you take out the garbage, do the dishes, and tackle the honey do list without being asked, are these things what bind your wife to you in marriage? Or are these things the manifestation of love that binds us in marriage?
The way you approach this, you think that by being forgiven for a crime, the crime isn't a crime anymore and you're free to do it now. That's not how it works in the real world, and Jesus is very clear that it's not how it works in your fantasy world, either.
