A rejection of Antinomianism

"...Many religious person complain that justification, federal headship, guilt and punishment, are legal concepts, and that legality is antithetical to grace and a religion of love. Thus these people undermine the Christian gospel. Note that sin is defined by God's law, as John will say in a few verses further on, and as Paul makes so very clear. There is nothing sub-Christian in legality. God is a law-giver. Christians are obligated to obey the law. They have no right (and right is also a legal term) to murder, commit adultery, or steal. Christ never abrogated the Ten Commandments. The New Testaments says that if we offend in one point, we are guilty of all. And from Matthew to Revelation there are warnings of God's great judgment theme. The gospel is not an antinomian device for encouraging sin. Could any language to this effect have greater clarity than John's? But we do sin, nevertheless. Then what? Shall we delay baptism until a minute before we die and trust the water to wash away our sins? Some early Christians (if indeed, they were Christians--at least they thought they were) held this view. On the contrary, John said, we have a lawyer in the Judge's courtroom. He is not a shyster, but a just advocate. He knows how to plead...."

FIRST JOHN
pp 42-43
Dr Gordon H Clark

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[BludBaut]

cont9 life of our beloved brother who we knew to be a genuine Believer and IF WE'RE HONEST, we'd be thoroughly ashamed for our brothers to know all the details of our lives.

If this isn't your experience and your testimony, then speak up because if "living in sin" makes someone not a Christian, then I DON'T KNOW ANY CHRISTIANS. EVERY SINGLE CHRISTIAN I KNOW WELL has serious and blatant violations of specific plain and simple commands in the Bible. The divorce rate among professing Christians is

[Blogrich55]

@BludBaut "I DON'T KNOW ANY CHRISTIANS. EVERY SINGLE CHRISTIAN I KNOW WELL has serious and blatant violations of specific plain and simple commands in the Bible."

I have decided to unblock you following Lightspeed52's advice. You have confused willful lifestyle sins with the fact that ALL CHRISTIANS will sin every day in word, thought, or deed. Pimps, prostitutes, pedophiles, hit men, PRACTICING homosexuals and such are living sinful lifestyles as are shacked-up couples and adulterers. Got it?

[2222pauline]

@Blogrich55

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[Blogrich55]

@2222pauline "GO TO BED..."

I do and when I do the Lord blesses me with rest and refreshment. How about you Mr Troll? I have read in His Holy Word that there was NO peace for the wicked.

[Blogrich55]

@TheClarkianApologist "If works are "not meritorious"...why would one need them to stand justified before God on the last day?"

1. Even though we are not saved BY our works, we are NOT saved without them.

2. Works are a necessary consequence of justification.

3. God not only saves us from the guilt of our sin (justification) but He also saves us from the power of our sin (sanctification)

4. We do NOT plead our good works before God but ONLY the merit of Christ.

Isaiah 61:10 AND Eph 2:10 GBU

[stegokitty]

@TheClarkianApologist - My statement is the same faith that all of the Reformers (including Clark) proclaimed. Faith without works is dead faith, which is not saving faith. Period. This has nothing to do with works based, nor faith-plus-works based salvation. No one is justified by works nor by faith plus works. But a justified person is a person with a living faith, which produces good works. Therefore anyone claiming the name of Christ, who does not have good works, is self deceived.

[Blogrich55]

@BludBaut "In 1Cor. 12:3 God's Word reveals that men other than the apostles and Canon writers are inspired by the Spirit of God, whether you like it or not."

No doubt we all are led by the Holy Spirit if we are truly born again sons and daughters of God. Preachers are to preach the Word and do so, hopefully, under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. BUT that does NOT make them inspired as the writers of scripture were. If you think it does, you are a bigger NUT JOB than I think you are.

[Blogrich55]

@BludBaut "I am not going to apologize for regarding the Word of God over the opinions of men."

And I am NOT going to apologize with valuing God's Word over some jumped-up modern Joe Smith who CLAIMS Jesus talked to him in Person VISIBLY. WOW! BTW Mr Know-it-all, I was raised and originally ordained as a Pentecostal and I know all about you nonsense! I know professed prophets and apostles. Is THAT clear enough for you? Oh, don't bother trying to answer. You can't. You have been BLOCKED!

[Blogrich55]

@BludBaut "I'm hoping that your silence for the last two plus hours is because you're repenting before the Lord for your unbelief and failure to fellowship and have communion with Him."

Repent of WHAT? I have not answered because you made a PLETHORA of stupid, self-serving, emotional, irrational, hyper-mystical comments that were ALL OVER the theological landscape. I cannot and WILL NOT waste my time with an idiot like you.

You have a VERY judgmental spirit. How do YOU know what I think??

[BludBaut]

Just now, I listened to this video. watch?v=voY37hYwrWQ

It's a bad copy and it might be 20 years old or older but it makes some points that I think are very valuable. It's largely about TL Osborne, who preached to more unsaved people than anyone in history. (I don't know if Bonnke has passed him. I think not.) It talks about the influence that Jesus had through a man who went astray to get Osborne's ministry on the track to effectiveness. I'm sure you'll have complaints but I hope you hear God.

[BludBaut]

@TheClarkianApologist divide and separate and try to make a difference when the Lord Jesus spent such time and effort to admonish us to love, forgive, embrace and accept one another EVEN when we have a "quarrel against any." You guys seem to relish getting "us" down to the smallest and most narrowly defined group you can where you're all in complete agreement. Where do you see this in Scripture and why is it that you do not see this as sectarian and contrary to Christ?

[BludBaut]

@TheClarkianApologist When I used "dead letter" I should have used "old" or "antiquated." "Dead letter" is so common that I forgot the text says "old." It is common because Paul also said, "The letter killeth but the Spirit giveth life. While the text in Romans 7 is referring to the Law, the text in 2Cor3 is referring to any Scripture wrongly used and I'm a little surprised you didn't understand what I consider was rather obvious.

Where do you find the NT admonition to use terminology to