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You have heard of "original sin?"
What about "original salvation." ????? Anyway -- what I
mean is that I have never considered myself lost. That does not mean
such was the case. I was raised going to church. I
grew up in church. My dad was an elder in church. There has
never been a time in my thoughtful existence when I did not think God in Christ
died for me. I was baptised at age 12, back in '57. But I knew
I was going to commit to that ordinance years before. If
"repentance" means a change of mind, I have
never had the need to repent. Often the need to
confess. Am I the only one? I don't
think so. I am going to go hide, now. John
jt: Then you are still in your sin because
"there is none righteous, no not one" Confessing is pointless unless we are
willing to repent which is to let go of it or turn - JD Could it possibly be that you have never really
understood "righteousness, temperance, and the judgment to come but have
inherited a 'form of godliness?" because believing you were never lost is
delusion.
God saved me in spite of myself. It is a song about how I see
the spiritual world. I have never had the opinion that I was
unsaved -- but I can sing "I once was lost" with feeling.
JD
Opinions aside, brother John, could you clarify the above for me? I know that you cannot be saying that you have always been saved, but that is what I got at first reading.
Terry
Opinions aside, brother John, could you clarify the above for me? I know that you cannot be saying that you have always been saved, but that is what I got at first reading.
Terry
