[BigJulie;150148]
Oh I see , So when you pray you have no need to address your pray to the Father or confirm your words in the name of Jesus. After all that's a given?
As I said to us it is much different.. To God this is not any different than any other rebellion.. That is what we learn in James 2:10.. Seems you still refuse to believe Him. Little white lie are still lies and what do we call a persona that lie? A liar right? What does your own BofM teach as the final judgement of a liar? Doesn't it teach that they will be thrust down to hell (2 Nephi 9:34)? How is that different from the way God will punish the adulterer, or *****monger as the KJV puts it?
Rev 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and *****mongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
What is then the difference before God in lying or adultery both make a person unrighteous before a Holy God.. All sin is serious to He tell us through Paul that "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?" (1 Cor 6:9)..
No one except God does. Even our government see degrees of sin.. Theft by deception is less of a crime than armed robbery. The punishment is also not equal. But to God sin is sin.. You don't have to think like God to believe Him.. He says that if we offend the Law in one point we are guilty of all.. Like it or not that is His way.. All your denials can't change it.. So it's up to you will you believe God or will you demand that He is wrong and you know better? Did you read the verse? If you did and you believe that the Bible is the word of God how can you continue to contend against Him?
Trivial? It almost destroyed me.. I nearly lost everything in my life that matters.. I nearly lost my faith.. If that is trivial then I don't understand the meaning of that word.. If it weren't for Jesus I see my sin as being soul destroying. Does that change the truth that God saw it as sin that must be punished and you have already stated what the wages of sin is.. One sin or a millions sins, murder, adultery, or even disbelief. According to the Bible God sees sin to be sin it must be punished with death..
I mean just what the Bible teaches.. Our difference here don't seem to be about believing God through His word the Bible.. I believe Him you seem to me doubting Him.. This is what I mean:
2 Corinthians 5:21
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Jesus took all our sin onto Himself.. Clear so far? And then offered the righteousness of God to all who would accept it.. That is all I mean.. Because the only command we must live is to be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.. Only in being made the righteousness of God by Jesus taking our sin from us can we be perfect as He is perfect.. Anything short of that and we will see only judgment in the Lake of Fire.. I believe that since righteousness is the requirement for everlasting life and that is had only through believing on Jesus (John 3:16)m being made his righteousness is a very big deal.. And even if our sins be as scarlet He can and will make them white as wool to all that trust Him.. Trusting Him includes trusting the word He preserved for us.. Therefore "whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." That is God's word and the truth.. Your denials don't change the truth of God's word..
You actually call the word of God, false doctrine.. That is much more serious in my eyes than mere adultery. Unless you stop calling God a liar you will die in that sin and He will give you the judgment of spiritual death.. Yes saying I believe and am saved does make the LDS believe is giving myself license to sin.. But I tell you instead I tell you if I only sinned all I want I would be 100% sinless.. A Christian doesn't WANT to sin at all.. My adultery was not excused! It was forgiven.. The consequences were not dismissed either.. There were tears, eviction, love and trust lost.. It was hell on earth and I deserved every second of that torment plus more. I count your savage judgment as the continuation of that punishment.. That doesn't change the fact that I trust God through His promises that I have been made whole again.. I am now again white as wool. I have said all sin is deadly.. It is all going to be punished with eternal spiritual death.. It doesn't matter how bad you believe the sin is it is all deadly serious to God.. You tell me that you love God, but your actions here betray that.. You want to believe the Bible as far as you agree with it but if something is taught there you don't like, or you don't agree with then it is God that wrong not you, right? And that is what you call loving God.. I for one will never show Him my love by calling him wrong or saying that He lies.. And yet you deny that it's true that you deny that it os God's word that:
James 2:10
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Those in love with God believe Him.. They obey Him, and when they fail they confess the failure make it right as possible. Then trust Him that they are forgiven (1 John 1:9).. IHS jim