For KevinThrowe and others lurking who may believe him.....

[Scarlett O.]

You said that you think we believe that we could be disobedient to the commands of God all our lives and then when we are "old and sick" just say "oops, sorry" and enter heaven.

This just needs a new post so anyone lurking on our forum can understand the truth of God and the truth of the Bible and the truth of what we at the Baptist Board believe.

It doesn't matter if you are 12 or 102. When you come to understand the depravity of your personal sin and its affront to our Holy God, and then you forsake your sins and turn to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you will confess that in your heart and you will be saved.

That's NOT, NOT, NOT saying "oops, sorry". Flippantly saying "oops sorry" to God isn't repentance nor being truthful about who you are.

God says over and over in his Word that people can do NOTHING to earn his favor or his salvation. If what you say, Kevin, is true, , then Jesus Christ would not have had to die. We could just "be good" and be in, like Flinn with God. That's unbiblical.

Whom do you believe that Jesus died for and why?

You have either sat under false teachers, not read the Bible, or you are just here to troll.

 

[Silverhair]

@Scarlett O. I like what you have said but I would edit it just a bit.

You wrote
"God says over and over in his Word that people can do NOTHING to earn his favor or his salvation. If that's true, then Jesus Christ would not have had to die."

Perhaps it should read "If what you said were true, then Jesus Christ..."

We have to trust in the risen Christ if we are to be saved and that seem to be something that @KevinThrowe does not understand.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Edited for clarification

 

[atpollard]

It is the flaw of thinking someone can be only a "little bit bad"... sick and in need of a little medicine and rest ... rather than "a slave to sin" [John 8:34] or "dead" and "by nature children of wrath" [Ephesians 2:1-3] thus in desperate need of MERCY [Romans 9:15-16] and a new heart [Ezekiel 36:26-27].

We all need a transformation, not a little touch up.

Philippians 2:13 [NASB] ... for it is God who is at work in you, both to desire and to work for [His] good pleasure.