That’s because of false doctrine being rampantly promoted in Churches and Christian Forums.
Doctrines such as OSAS, that teaches people they cal live for themselves in sin and debauchery and still be saved.
Here is what Paul wrote to the Corinthians and is still applicable today.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Agreed. It has always amazed me, since I 1st discovered Christian forums 20 years ago, that there are so many un-educated Christians on forums who actually are not educated at all and a great number do not attend regular church services.
I will dis agree with OSAS. IMHO.....you are rejecting that because you are a Pentecostal believer and you have been taught that your whole life. I am not condemning that, only stating what I believe.
However, I was taught the very same thing for the 1st part of my Christian life until I was given the truth of the Scriptures.
We can be friends but I can never come to your point of view on OSAS.
I appreciate your using 1 Corinthians 6:9-11....however, I do not know how many people you have counseled with over the years, but I can say with confidence that people who use this Scripture use it to suggest that if a Christian is engaged in a homosexual lifestyle or is in some way guilty of adultery, that God will change his mind and revoke their salvation, and they will not inherit the kingdom.
I would suggest that to the Scripture you used, add Galatians 5:19-21........
"The acts of the flesh are obvious:
sexual immorality,
impurity and
debauchery;
idolatry and
witchcraft;
hatred,
discord (disagreeing),
jealousy,
fits of rage,
selfish ambition,
dissensions,
factions (dissenting groups, i.e in politics)
and
envy;
drunkenness,
orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Now with the Scriptures in 1 Corinthians you used and these in Galatians, If this is true, I would say that 99% of Christians are doomed. Most, if not all of us, are guilty of at least one of these.
What do we call the things on this laundry list? We call them sins.
What did Jesus do about those sins? He died for them. Nowhere in scripture do we see that Jesus only died for little sins for the ones that we rarely commit. Nowhere in scripture do we see that the only sins that are forgiven are the ones that you fully repent of. We do not receive forgiveness of sins because we’re so awesome in our overall performance. We receive forgiveness through faith, by grace, it is not of ourselves. It is a gift from God.
God tells us our sins have been washed away as far as the west is from the east – Hebrews 10:2
God tells us he remembers our sins no more – Hebrews 10:17
Here is what’s actually going on in Corinthians 6 and Galatians?
Paul was writing the Corinthians who were engaged in all kinds of sin. They knew the blood of Jesus worked and they had Grace poured all over them. They knew they were indeed free to do whatever without punishment. The problem was they were using their grace to indulge the flesh. Many Christians stupidly do that. That’s why this long list that Paul gave you should shut every one of us up.
Christianity is not and has never been a get out of jail free card! This is why Jesus told the woman caught in adultry to go and not to do the sin of adultery anymore = REPENT.
So, what’s happening is Paul has a heart for these Corinthians. He doesn’t want them to forget that the very things they’re doing now were once eternally punishable. Meaning before they called on Jesus those very things prevented them from inheriting the kingdom. The wages of sin is death. Any sins. Any size. Why do the very things that once resulted in eternal punishment? We’re not made for sin. We are never satisfied with sin. We have new desires. And if we follow Paul’s letter in context, we discover Paul is not threatening the Corinthians.
He’s talking about what happens to people who are NOT believers but instead are "Makebelievers"!
In other words, he’s describing their previous condition and the result of their sins. And if we would just read one more verse, we’d see Paul literally concludes by basically telling them ‘hey Corinthians, sin was what your old identity was, but that’s not who you are now, you are safe and you have been cleansed, so live it out. Don’t use your freedom to do the things that once led to eternal punishment”.
