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Originally Posted by Socialite
No, OF2, that's called moralism.
He came to make dead people live. That was the ultimate goal. The problem with sin wasn't that we smoked cigarettes and watched dirty movies. The problem with sin is that we brought death onto ourselves, and so, we're living like dead people. He came to bring LIFE -- and LIFE more abundantly. He came to rescue us from death.
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Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Is that verse in your Bible? Thats what I quoted.
If he brings us to life, then we walk in that life. Thats what the first two chapters of 1 john are all about, walking in the light. These are actions that we have to consciously decide to do with the help of the Spirit.
John 3:16-21
16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
The reason we come to the light, is that our deeds may be manifest that they are worked in God. Lovers of darkness won't come to the light because it changes their deeds. Thats what Jesus said in
John 3!
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