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Repent of sins means to stop doing those sins. Being saved is not about saying you are contrite for your sins, while you keep doing them. You are no different than a Catholic.
RELIGION: Man's attempt to become like God.
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Repent of sins means to stop doing those sins. Being saved is not about saying you are contrite for your sins, while you keep doing them. You are no different than a Catholic.
ThreeAngels
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While there is false religion, there is also true religion which is from God. True religion brings man into harmony with the laws of God, physical, mental, and moral. It teaches self-control, serenity, temperance. Religion ennobles the mind, refines the taste, and sanctifies the judgment. It makes the soul a partaker of the purity of heaven. Faith in God’s love and overruling providence lightens the burdens of anxiety and care. It fills the heart with joy and contentment in the highest or the lowliest lot. Religion tends directly to promote health, to lengthen life, and to heighten our enjoyment of all its blessings. It opens to the soul a never-failing fountain of happiness.
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God's Truth matters.
We cannot excuse false teachings.
Do you think it is right for someone to be ensnared by the devil because they seem nice and happy?
You need to stop wearing yourself out by trying to be good enough. You will never be good enough to merit salvation because you are a sinner, Romans 3:10.
You need to cease from your works and your obedience and enter into his rest, Hebrews 4:10.
Jesus has provided salvation for you by his doing and his dying, but its not yours if you don't cease from your works and enter into his rest.
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That is your evil confusion to think that obeying Jesus will wear someone out.
Jesus' words are life and Spirit food.
Do you get worn out by eating nourishing food?
You are ignorant and speak against God's Word.
HAAAAAA the works that is spoken of is not Jesus' commands, they are the Old Testament commands, such as get circumcised and sacrifice animals. Those are the works that no longer save.
Try as you may to be good enough you still fall short of what God's law demands, which is perfection. Any thing less than perfection is sin.
You need to enter into the rest that Jesus has provided for you, Hebrews 4:10. Cease from trying to be good enough, which you are not anyway and rest in the salvation that God has provided for you in Jesus Christ.
Jesus saves and he saves to the uttermost, Hebrews 7:25.
But you will have to stop trying to be good enough and trust in his righteousness and in his atonement for your sins.
Is Ellen White "The Truth"?
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Can one point of the Law of Moses be removed and the Book of the Law (Deuteronomy 5 - Deuteronomy 31:26) remain a reference?
Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."
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You do not even say what the scriptures say.
I can show you many scriptures that say to obey. You cannot show any scripture that speaks against obeying as you just did.
That scripture is about not have to work at cleaning ourselves, i.e. sacrificing animals.
Where do you ever get that means we do not have to obey? I wouldn't know what to do if I couldn't obey Jesus. Jesus' words are life.
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There is a New Covenant. lol
You are so preoccupied with yourself that you cannot see the wonderful thing that God has done for you in Jesus Christ.
When does God rest? (Hebrews 4:4)
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You have no idea about the love and life from obeying Jesus' words.
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John 5:17 In his defense Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working."
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV -
HOGWASH!
You don't have the slightest idea of what the Gospel is. You are so preoccupied with your righteousness that you cannot see the righteousness of God, Romans 10:3.
In the judgment, when you are standing before God in your sins, maybe then, you will understand the righteousness of God.
Ben Masada
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Is that so TA? Are you sure that religion promotes health, lengthens life and opens the soul into a fountain of happiness? Is this what the religion of Christianity did to the Jews throughout History by means of pogroms, blood libels, Crusades, Inquisition and the Holocaust? We lost millions of our people so that the Christian religion could promote health, lengthen life and bring us happiness! The Lord Almighty keep us far away from this kind of happiness!
ThreeAngels
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Only true religion is beneficial. Catholicism is apostate Christianity and so it is injurious. 'Ye shall know them by their fruits', Matt 7:16. False religion reveals itself by its noxious fruit of cruelty, intolerance, and light estimation of human life while the fruit of true religion is just the opposite- it tends to ennoble and uplift humanity and places great value on the human soul, saying with God 'I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.' Isaiah 13:12.
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How are you ever going to stand before God and explain how you taught people that they do not have to obey, and that they cannot obey?
In the judgment I will be standing with the prophets and apostles that confessed that they were unworthy sinners saved by the grace of God and by the merits of Jesus Christ.
You will be stand with the group that will be saying... "But Lord, Lord, didn't we...?"