Brother Bob said:Came back just for this.
Lets see now, This started by the righteousness of Noah. Yet you say, it takes the blood of Christ to make us righteous. That it is not us that God sees, but the righteousness of Christ.
In the days of Noah, the blood had not been shed, so how did he see the righteousness of Noah. I know you will say faith, but God saw Noah's righteous, before the ark, so why can't he see our righteousness because of our faith, why does it have to be by the blood of Christ?
Also, you say the saved were never unsaved at any time, but yet God put the whole household of Israel away and gave her a bill of divorcement. Then God kept saying "return unto me Oh ye Israel, for I am your God" They must of been away from God at one time. Also, a big portion of them are unsaved as of now.
What about Adam, or Cain. Were they not God's at one time but fell and went the way of the unbeliever?
None the less, How were they all covered, for the blood was not shed?
What really amazes me is that God does not see you sin, but sees the righteousness of Christ instead. When he looks at you, He sees Christ. Now ain't that a doozy. When DHK looks at a woman and lusts, if he does, God does not see him do it, He sees the righteousness of Christ instead. If any man committs any sin that is supposed to be saved, adultery, pedophiler, you name it, it is hidden from God, for He does not see that man, but sees the righteousness of Christ.
Now for Amy and Ann:
A hypothetical:
Lets say you go out with one of the brethren each in your church and spend the night at a motel. (Not saying you would) Well, nothing wrong with that for God, does not see you, but the righteousness of Christ, so no wrong done.
But, if your husbands catches you and he does see you, even though God does not, shoots both of you and your lovers, then is he guilty? Not according to you, for God would not see him do it, for all God would see is the righteousness of Christ. Then in Heaven, you and your husband and your lovers, could all walk together and sing "I been redeemed, both soul and body". Lets say, he does not shoot you, he would have to forgive you and go on as if nothing happened, or he would be a hypocrit, for he believes as you, that your sins are covered and all God saw was the righteousness of Christ.
What you all are saying is no matter the "sin", God sees righteousness.
Lets take King David and his real wife. You think she was as forgiving as God whe she saw David with another man's wife. What about the woman he saw naked and sent her husband to the front lines to be killed so he could have his wife. You think the man, said "bless the King, for he sent me here to be killed so he could have my wife", I doubt it, but if he was a saved person, according to you, he would have to.
Your doctrine, theology, belief is that a saved person can and does commit all of the following, but it is not counted as sin, for God does not see it, but sees the "righteousness of Christ". You should be ashame of yourselves.
1Cr 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Cr 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
God help us all,
BBob,
How can you say that God does not see sin? We are told that all of our deeds will be shown to us (and I'm sure God will see it too - He's the One keeping the record).
Sin has definite consequences. What has been taken away for the believer is the consequence of death. However, if I were to lie, I still will have the consequences of that - and God will allow a bad consequence to happen. If I were to commit adultery, you better believe there will be STRONG consequences to my marriage, my family and my own life. I do not believe that we can sin to lose our salvation but when we DO sin willingly, then our hearts are hardened to the Lord and we need to come to Him in repentance to heal that.
Let's put it this way, and of course all analogies are not perfect: My daughter is my daughter. I love her tremendously and nothing she does will ever stop her from being my daughter. However let's say that she lies to me and I know she did. She will have lost my trust, she will have guilt (hopefully) and it will take time to heal what damage has been done. Is she less my daughter? No. But there is a strain on our relationship and she can't say that she's close to her mom and has a good, growing relationship unless she's worked to heal that rift caused by the lying. In the same way, what we do damages our relationship to the Lord and it damages our own hearts and mind, but it will in no way make us unsaved. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God. Our name is graven on His hand and that can never be undone - it's permanent. But we can certainly break God's heart and no true believer EVER wants to do that. They may still do it because of their sinfulness but they will never be comfortable with it because of the Holy Spirit convicting us of that sin. Make sense?