pssommer
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Re:Question about some verses of Hebrews - 2007/01/05 18:41
Dear brothers!
I've been reading this discussion and with Paul's last post my spirit made my fingers itch for a comment...
I see that unfortunately many choose to believe that we serve a ‘God’ that is apparently anxious to see how we perform, and in most cases we end up catastrophically in the Rom 7 struggle.
All our lives we have been taught or told to perform and this reflect directly on our Christian life and how we understand God to be.
I have been struggling for 27 years of my life with my own demand for perfection and gained nothing but frustrations and guilt, the more I wanted to be a good Christian (in the eyes of men) the more I ended up in being an excellent wretch.
My guess is that this is the same struggle the people from Hebrews where going through. How are we going to behave/live in such a “crazy” dispensation (grace)?
I can only say that after I started to read the gospel as a romantic love letter and not as a manual, I began to feel the healing touches of grace that told me ‘there is neither good or bad Christian, there is only Jesus; and He lives His life in me and as me’ and therefore I can now say that I’m totally secure forever.
If any verse of the scripture compromises this truth, in my personnel view, I would boldly say, it is either wrong or it means something else.
Either we serve a God of Love, a love that surpasses all understanding, a love that came to earth in flesh to settle once and for all issues of mankind, or lets face it… We’re doomed for good...
That’s my view of it…
Jude
24: Now to him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you without blemish before the presence of his glory with rejoicing,
25: to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen.
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Mandy
