Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
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A person who is born again is none of those things.His righteousness is of faith and not of works. If a Christian commits a sin,it doesn't make him a sinner,speaking of the Spirit. If that were the case,a Christian would need be saved again every time he sinned and he would constantly be in and out,in and out. In fact the qualification for righteousness is so high he could never stay in the position of salvation,if it was based on his actions. The only way he could be saved would be to die the very second after being born again,before he had time to commit another sin.

I used to work with a guy who went to a pentacostal church that taught just that. They have services every day of the week so you go get saved again and again. I asked him what happened if you got saved, then drove out of the parking lot, ran a stop sign and got killed by a truck. You just sinned by running the stop sign only 10 minutes after you got saved. Do you go to hell?
He couldn't answer.


Bingo.

Hitler accepts Christ just before he pulled the trigger. Does he go to Heaven for accepting Christ, or not for his bad "work" after accepting him?

RC's example is just as good. Add in the Catholic vision of repentance and you can understand why old ladies in their final years are so buy going to confession and repenting every day they have no time to live out the finale of their lives.


אלוהים מגיע כשאתה הכי פחות מצפה


Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.