Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Your ignorance of the Christian faith is duly noted. Repentance (turning from your old ways and accepting the grace and Holy Word of Jesus Christ as your new way in life) is a requirement.
I was hoping that we could talk about repentance (turning away from old ways and accepting Christ's grace and Holy Word as the new way of life). How can people that proudly engage in a behavior that God condemns both in the Old and New Testament, and further mock God by twisting the definition of His institution of marriage, say that they've repented?
You and your buddy Patrick seem to think that love is enough. Care to back that up with Holy Scripture?
Please don't bad mouth Patrick. I know I've always found him a good dude. Otherwise, I recall some years ago almost feeling like I wanted to throw something at the TV set, or do an Elvis shoot the tube, and this was over a minister I much admire and will not name, but he gave a sermon with, as if, an antimatter black hole in it, using Luke 17:3-4 his teaching text. I could not believe what I was hearing: he did not once mention repentance in his entire sermon, and he read those verses entirely without the repent references. This is because his theory was God’s unconditional love, hence that we must willy nilly forgive all evil.
I won’t discourse on the fatal flaws of this monolithic, void of context and unscriptural teaching, but you are absolutely right. There is no salvation without repentance. The notion is plain ridiculous. Yes, repentance is turning from sin, but also repentance involves a mind that has come into agreement with God, moves 180 degrees from the ways of the Satanic world system: it’s acknowledging our wretched, filthy state as being of that world and turning away from it, in disgust, like the humbled publican who would not even look up of Luke 18:13, like becoming "poor in spirit" and turning to seek God in spirit and in truth, which includes submitting to God, Jesus Christ, our Master, our LORD. To say repentance is not required is to say you don’t need to change your mind about anything, that you don’t even need to agree with God on the primary issues, can somehow remain a devil with a saint lapel pin. Does not even compute with common sense, and it’s a rampant theology, “I’ll take a big helping of Savior, and skip on the Lord part.” It’s saying you can embrace Satan’s world and God at the same time, serve two masters, be double-minded, be welcomed into God's kingdom with the unrepentant mind of a demon. Again, the Lord said in the Luke 17 verses “if he repent” tangential to forgiveness. A lot of people don’t like that part of it, so we just omit those words, right?
Tell you what, fake Christians I've known hate repentance, knew one who even actually said you can sin all you want, that you should love your sin, that I don't understand grace. I couldn't believe I heard that, either.
