Elijah,
While I have no idea what the big deal is about Sunday/Saturday service times, I DO know one thing for sure:
Worshipping on Sunday is not, in any sense of the word, "Sun Worship".
My answers:
OSAS - In general, I do believe in "Once saved, always saved". If someone accepts the gift of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, they are saved. I do not believe anyone can 'undo' His work. He died for me while I was yet a sinner, if He would do that, I cannot imagine what would make Him "undo" it or "take it back".
ETERNAL BURNING - I am unsure on this one. But I don't believe in Jesus just to avoid burning in Hell forever. I looked at the biblical account, I looked at the old and new testaments, and I prayed and prayed - and came to the conclusion that Jesus was who He said he was. In the 36 years since that day, I have come to believe in Him even more.
John 3:16
New International Version (NIV)
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Jesus said, "It is finished". He is the authority, not me. So for me, when it comes to arguments about my being saved - it is finished.
Thanks loads! For
once, a
clear statement for what you believe! (even if wrong) Believing error has the one still covered by the blood of Christ
at present. Now comes Rom. 8:1 into Rom. 8:14
of being Led!
But do read Rom. 13, and tell me if you will execute the ones that Uncle Sam tells you to do so?
Even standing by not saying anything will make one guilty. Caesar will be put before Christ in this last sequence.
Note Acts 5:27-29 and that all were agreeing that
Christ CAME FIRST!
--Elijah
PS: What is your take with Eze. 8 then??
[
5] Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way
toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
[
6] He said furthermore unto me, Son of man,
seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
[
7] And he brought me
to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
[
8] Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
[
9] And he said unto me,
Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
[
10] So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
[
11] And there stood before them
[seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel], and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
[
12] Then said he unto me, Son of man,
hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
[
13]
He said also unto me, Turn
thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.
[
14] Then he brought me to the
door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
[
15] Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man?
turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.
[
16] And he brought me
into the inner court of the [[LORD's house]], and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their
backs toward the temple of the LORD, and
their faces toward the east; and [[they worshipped the sun toward the east]].
And what does
God say is the greatest of ALL of these things???
--Elijah
Yes, I am. I kind of like you, too.
