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Asurprise
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Posted on Monday, May 09, 2011 - 12:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Christianity teaches that salvation is a free gift (Romans 5:15). All the religions - whether Roman Catholic, Mormon, Seventh-day Adventist or Muslim; teach do, do, do and don't, don't, don't, in order to be saved. (Some Adventists feel that all they need to do to maintain salvation, is just to make sure that they keep trying and asking forgiveness. But if they feel that even maintaining it is up to them, then they haven't accepted it!) No wonder that none of those people can truthfully say that they are saved! (I remember once telling someone in response to his question, that yes, I was saved; just to get him to think that Adventists are Christian, but I felt guilty about it afterward.)

Christianity teaches DONE! If future sins weren't forgiven to believers, John couldn't have written 1st John 2:12 where it says to believers; your sins are forgiven. If ALL sins weren't forgiven, the Bible couldn't say you may KNOW you have eternal life in 1st John 5:13. It wouldn't say in Ephesians 2:8-9, 2nd Timothy 1:9 and Titus 3:5, that a believer HAS BEEN SAVED, if it wasn't so.

Yet, Ellen White says that no one should say or believe that they are saved.

Dianne

(Message edited by Asurprise on May 09, 2011)
Animal
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Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 7:45 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those who accept the Saviour, however sincere their conversion, should never be taught to say or to feel that they are saved. This is misleading. (Christ Object Lessons, page 155)

As long as man is full of weakness–for of himself he cannot save his soul–he should never dare to say, "I am saved." (Selected Messages, vol 1, page 314)


A moment of silence please.....



OK..now yo may laff...lol lol

....Animal
Jonvil
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Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 8:47 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I knew this would happen, now your quoting Ellen.

(Where is that moderator?)
Hec
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Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 2:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hey, hey, keep that moderator away yet. EGW preaches the correct gospel. Look at this from Steps to Christ chapter 7:

quote:

The condition of eternal life is now just what it always has been,--just what it was in Paradise before the fall of our first parents,--perfect obedience to the law of God, perfect righteousness. If eternal life were granted on any condition short of this, then the happiness of the whole universe would be imperiled. The way would be open for sin, with all its train of woe and misery, to be immortalized.



At this point I like to ask the SDA, Are you keeping the law perfectly? Most of the time if not all, the answer is, "I'm trying." To what I reply, "She doesn't say the condition is to try, she says the condition is to perfectly keep the law, Are you keeping it perfectly? Am I? Do you know of anyone who, SDA or not, is keeping it perfectly? At this point they try to change the subject or bring another verse/quote to their support. I just keep clarifying that statement from their won prophet.

quote:

It was possible for Adam, before the fall, to form a righteous character by obedience to God's law. But he failed to do this, and because of his sin our natures are fallen and we cannot make ourselves righteous. Since we are sinful, unholy, we cannot perfectly obey the holy law. We have no righteousness of our own with which to meet the claims of the law of God.


Now we keep reading the quote, Its coming from her mouth that we cannot perfectly obey the holy law So what now? She says that the requirement is to perfectly obey the law, now she says that we cannot perfectly obey the holy law. So we are lost unless we finish the quote

quote:

But Christ has made a way of escape for us. He lived on earth amid trials and temptations such as we have to meet. He lived a sinless life. He died for us, and now He offers to take our sins and give us His righteousness. If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ's character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God just as if you had not sinned.


So we are justified.

Do we now go on sinning? NO, there is more:


quote:

More than this, Christ changes the heart. He abides in your heart by faith. You are to maintain this connection with Christ by faith and the continual surrender of your will to Him; and so long as you do this, He will work in you to will and to do according to His good pleasure. So you may say, "The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20. So Jesus said to His disciples, "It is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you." Matthew 10:20. Then with Christ working in you, you will manifest the same spirit and do the same good works --works of righteousness, obedience.

So we have nothing in ourselves of which to boast. We have no ground for self-exaltation. Our only ground of hope is in the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and in that wrought by His Spirit working in and through us.


I have found going over this quote at least makes some SDA think.

Of course, the mouth speaks of the abundance of the heart. She couldn't keep it totally straight and had to include some works,like, "...You are to maintain this connection with Christ by faith and the continual surrender of your will to Him; and so long as you do this,...

If only all she says would be like this! There comes the danger, because in many other places she says exactly the opposite.

OK moderator. All yours

Hec

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