"As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him." 2 Samuel 22:31 (N.I.V)
"As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord's word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him." 2 Samuel 22:31 (N.I.V)
"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage." --John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men. 1776
"The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times." Psalm 12:6 (E.S.V.)
Sad, and quite true as you mean it. But it isn't a new thing in the church, Paul and others struggled against the same secular self centered religious mind-set from day one.
Thing to remember is that ONLY "true believers" are Christian, there really isn't any other kind. It's a shame that many self deceived souls "in the church" simply means they are there as part of a nice religious social club for reasons of their own and unrelated to Jesus.
Nothing shows the mistake of wrongly supposing that being nice and doing "good works", even working hard within the church itself, will earn "good" people a place in God's heaven as clearly as Jesus' puts it in Mt 7:21-24, i.e., "depart from me, I never knew you".
The "born again" new birth is real and it's critically important. Social religious people can even fool themselves and claim they are "Christian" all they want but if they aren't repentant "true believers" trusting in Christ - alone - they will be eternally making that claim from some part of hell. It has wisely been said:
Born twice? Die once!
Born once? Die twice.
(see Rev 20:14, Rev 21:8-11)
It appears that I am in danger of getting banned here. I made the mistake of quoting LBJ. Apparently the language he used will get you banned ...
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Nice try. You did not received the infraction for quoting LBJ, you received it for NOT quoting LBJ. Seems you decided to change the spelling (by using special characters) of a word in the quote in order to bypass our language censor - something that is against the rules and something you have been dinged on before which means you knew better.
If you going to tell a story might as well tell the whole story.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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