"Warning for not submitting..."

[Orion]

In another thread, someone made this comment and it causes me to bring the topic up again...

And a clear warning for not submitting to the will of God.

Where is there true devotion when there is the threat of emminent doom for those who otherwise go a different direction? How does a person know if they're a Christian if it is out of this "fear of doom" or because they long for the relationship? Would they still long for the unseen and the "rituals" if there was no "threat of doom"?

 

[Hugo]

Are you looking for some all-explanatory systematic theology? Your posts seem to give me that impression. I doubt you'll ever be able to find such a thing.

But for this specific issue, I don't know what doom is exactly, and it certainly isn't eminent.

I am skeptical that regeneration could occur out of "fear of doom."

Of course we would still long for God, that seems pretty easy to discern.

 

[Atonement]

How does a person know if they're a Christian if it is out of this "fear of doom" or because they long for the relationship?

Orion that is a great question, one verse clears this up (at least for me), I think it depends on one's maturity in the Lord and how they preceive these Scriptures. But here is that verse.

Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,