Originally Posted by dberrie2000 View Post---Again--how are you using those scriptures to somehow annul the fact the scriptures state that God gives His grace to those who obey Him? That enduring to the end is a requirement of being partakers of Christ?
Acts 5:32----King James Version (KJV)
32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the
Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
Hebrews 3:14---King James Version (KJV)
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Billyray--the fact is--the scriptures have God giving His grace to those who obey Him. No one is arguing that it is by the works of the law we are saved--only that what does save--His grace--goes to those who obey Him--and only those who obey Him:
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9----King James Version (KJV)
8 In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
1 Peter 4:17---King James Version (KJV)
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the
end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?