I suppose I must seem a bit like Winston Churchill, with my prophecies of doom and gloom, but the fact is, we can hardly have any bright future in a nation full of people who have turned their backs on God, and a leader such as Barack Obama.
My next issue comes from the racism of our president. Anyone whose eyes were open could see that the man in a racist; if a white president were to say the kinds of things he does, there would be an awful lot to pay. There would be a national uproar. Obama thinks that black is the color of change, I guess we white folks are all to dumb to make a change. Why the world can't just be COLOR BLIND and realize that God made EVERY RACE of people and loves EVERYONE, I'm just not sure. Why some whites have got to think they are better than blacks, Jews and latinos, why some blacks have got to think they are better than white, all the while angry at racist whites, it's just all beyond me. Why does the president of the United States think he gets to decide that blacks are better than whites, and that all whites who oppose his vile, slimy healthcare bill are racist???
What is racist about deciding that human babies are lives worth saving?! What is racist about deciding that socialism WILL NOT stand here?! What is racist about deciding that the elderly and handicapped are just as important as the strong, young workers?! What is racist about deciding that freedom of speech is valuable to EVERY person in this country?! And what kind of person is Barack Obama that he wants to silence people like you and I? If he read my blog, I can guarantee he would demand I shut it down. Because he cannot allow people to criticize him. He cannot afford opposition to his transition to socialism. He must make America a place where pesky things like freedom of speech and any morality whatsoever are a thing of the past. He wants to march forward united against righteousness!
People, don't be deceived!
I encourage you to read Bodie Thoene's blog as well: http://www.thoenebooks.com
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Well folks, it seems as if I have been right all along, and our new president is already flexing his socialist muscles. I have been opposed to this new bill regarding healthcare chiefly because it provides for the cold-blooded murder of innocent babies, and reintroduces the "mercy killing" used by Adolf Hitler in the Third Reich. This bill will REQUIRE that everyone on Social Security be counseled, every five years, on how to refuse nutrition and hydration to end their lives, and be offered euthanasia as a method of leaving life, completely without any say from close relatives. Our president is throwing money left and right, and his idea of a budget cut is to suggest to the handicapped and elderly that they commit suicide. I guess the State does not have the funds to continue supporting the "undesirables", huh? That was what Hitler thought.
Worse than that, is the proposed reintroduction of the "Fairness Doctrine," which is far from fair. The idea is that opposite ideas get fair and balanced coverage. At least that is how it is packaged and sold to them public. The real deal is that a preacher cannot simply preach a message from the Word of God without making sure he does not step on any toes. If he wants to read Scripture which says that homosexuals will go to hell, he has to have a homosexual to come on his program and tell how great it is to be gay. If he wants to preach that murderers will go to hell and that Israel's law provided death for a man who caused an unborn child to die, he must have an anti-life activist on his program. No controversial issue can be challenged. Just like Hitler's war on the churches. The government will next be sending Gestapo-like spies into churches to underline key points of sermons and incriminate pastors who disagree which State policy. Sermons may soon have to be approved by the government.
Obama also wants a law that to suggest marriage can be no other than a covenant between one man and one woman is a crime. This "hate crimes bill" says that we Christians who dare to have our own minds and follow the Bible as we see fit will be guilty of hate crimes against homosexuals all over the nation. In my mind, a hate crime against an homosexual is when you show violence toward another human being who happens to be homosexual simply because of their lifestyle. Let me get this straight. I will NEVER condone same-sex relations or marriage, I take my stand that it IS sin, however, I do NOT hate the people who commit this sin. I would never harm them for what they are doing. God will judge, and in the meantime, we have a chance to lead them to Christ with love, not with nasty slogans such as, "Gay pride got Sodom fried." Tacky. But still not a crime.
Worst of all so far is the newest invention. The White House has an email address that they want all good citizens to use for reporting their neighbors who might have ideas that step on Obama's toes. To be clear, citizens are actually asked to report friends and neighbors who do not think that this new healthcare plan is a good idea. Obama wants to control our every thought and word, and he is prepared to use fear as a tactic in this control. Just like Heinrich Himmler, he means to silence the innocent to keep anyone from knowing the truth. What will happen to those of us who still have morals, who disagree with his plans? Will there be an American Dachau into which all big-mouth moral people will be thrown and kept silent?
The question is, will you allow this man to intimidate you into keeping your mouth shut? Will you sit by and watch baby steps turn into a rushing tide of socialism that cannot be stopped except by extreme violence and loss of life? Will we rise up and refuse to bow to these terrible new edicts (if passed) or are we to become a nation full of goose-stepping Obama sycophants, in mortal terror for our lives, unable to even say, "I'm not sure the president is right about that"? Will we wait until elderly people and handicapped individuals are being forcibly killed to cut back on the medical budget? Until doctors are ordered to slaughter patients on Medicare or Medicaid? Until there is an American version of Dachau?
Saturday, January 24, 2009
NOT Proud to be an American...
From the beginning, being American meant that you were part of a very special work that God was doing. You could be free to follow God as you believed was right. Which meant that following the Bible to the letter would not get you tortured or killed by the authorities. It also meant that following another religion would not get you killed or punished, so long as you kept to reasonable moral boundaries, abstaining from murder and sexual immorality, etc.
For a long time now, America as a whole has been declining. Anyone with any sense of morality can simply look around the culture and see that. To determine whether a new movie is something I, as a Christian, want to go see, I use a movie rating site that rates movies by the amount of sexual content/nudity, violence/gore and profanity. Almost every new movie I see has obscenely high ratings in all three categories. This is just one area. Yesterday, I was at Zoo Atlanta, and even though it is Winter, there were women who thought they were supposed to show up uncovered. You cannot ignore it, or escape it. You can blend in with it or you can fight it.
Sadly, the church has decided to blend in. The American church has zero impact on the culture. People are just not living the Bible. They are living sinful culture. Go to a church on Sunday morning. You will see that the women do not fear God in their clothes. If they believed that God was real, that He gave a rip about us, they would not be uncovering their nakedness before the struggling eyes of men and pure hearts of children! (Not like I want to see it, either!)
So, I hope that all of you alleged Christians are happy with your "change". You got it. You got a leader who thinks it's time to murder innocent babies and free dangerous terrorists. He seems to have a long-term plan to destroy good and noble things. You can read about some of his change in these articles:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_abortion_ban
In the above article, you can see how he wants to take OUR money, our tax money, to pay for the murder of children abroad! It's not enough to slaughter our nation's kids, let's pay to make sure that wicked women in Mexico can viciously slay their young as well!
http://voanews.com/english/2009-01-23-voa46.cfm
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-22-voa71.cfm
Here you see, he is not only ending the war that is reforming the Mid-East and keeping us safe, he is releasing radical Islamic terrorists so that they can go find their buddies and repeat 9-11, except probably worse. Those guys want us dead!
http://voanews.com/english/2009-01-23-voa38.cfm
People like Michael J. Fox may be cured soon! That would be great news, if the cost were not someone else's life! In these Nazi-like experiments, a baby is murdered so that a born person can have hope of being made normal. Hmmm, sound like a good deal to you? How about to the baby?
Frankly, I was disappointed when I heard Rick Warren say that Dr. King is rejoicing in Heaven. If Dr. King has a shred of decency, which I know he does, he is hanging his head at this Liberal Socialist man who masquerades as a Christian and hides behind shaky language. He appealed to the American people's needs, the wobbly economy, and bloody war to get into office so that he could turn this nation into an even bigger hellhole than Clinton did. You never saw him say what, in the strictest sense, he planned to do. He never said, "And I want to make sure that you can brutally cut a baby's skull open, vacuum his or her brains out, and pull the child dead from the womb! Yes we can! I want to release dangerous Islamic terrorists who want to kill our children and rape our women and bring us to our knees! Yes we can! And I want to kill babies to use their dead bodies to heal the living! Yes we can!" But it was all there, between the lines, for anyone who cared enough to hear.
The question is, are we going to stand for this or are we going to stop before it gets worse? Christians, we need to stand up and start telling it like it is. We need to tell people this is wrong! We need to fight abortion! I fight it by praying and by posting discussions on the internet. Soon, I want to do more than that. I want to take this battle out to people as they come and go. Perhaps we cannot abolish it, but God willing, we will eliminate it! Yes we can!
I welcome your comments.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Partial Birth Abortion
For all of you who want to deny that partial birth abortion is anything less than gory, gruesome and cruel, you might want to click on these links. This goes beyond evil, beyond disturbed, demented, to think up, to perform, to sign up to have it done. This is from the very depths of hell.
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/index.html
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm
This site even features a letter from a former abortionist, stating that this diagram accurately depicts the procedure.
President-elect Barack Obama plans to lift the ban on this horrible, brutal procedure. They say the U.S. is 85% Christian. If that were true, Barack Obama would NOT have been elected! If the U.S. were 85% real, genuine, Bible-believing Christians, this nation would not look like it does!
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/index.html
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/PBA_Images/PBA_Images_Heathers_Place.htm
This site even features a letter from a former abortionist, stating that this diagram accurately depicts the procedure.
President-elect Barack Obama plans to lift the ban on this horrible, brutal procedure. They say the U.S. is 85% Christian. If that were true, Barack Obama would NOT have been elected! If the U.S. were 85% real, genuine, Bible-believing Christians, this nation would not look like it does!
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Some Thoughts by Lewis on Forgiveness...
"There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. We all know the old joke, 'You've given up smoking once; I given it up a dozen times!' In the same way, I could say of a certain man, 'Have I forgiven him for what he did that day? I've forgiven him more times than I can count.' For we find that forgiveness has to be done over and over again. We forgive and mortify our resentment; a week later, some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not for 490 offences, but for one offence." - C.S. Lewis
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Ramos and Compean...
You'll notice I haven't said much about the election. Extremely disappointed. Arm yourself with lots of prayer. We are about to have an evil ruler over our nation. A man who intends to make his first act in office one of cold-blooded murder. His hands will be stained with the blood of millions of innocent babies. Barack Obama is a wicked, heartless person who plans to use OUR TAX DOLLARS to help viciously and brutally murder babies. AND, he wants to send OUR TAX DOLLARS to fund abortions OVERSEAS to third world countries. So, while even ungodly people, like rock stars and movie stars, are helping to fund the feeding of starving children, our allegedly Christian president is helping to fund the murder of said babies.
Anyway, unfortunately, our beloved president, George W. Bush is leaving office all too early. Of course, you know, a departing president will usually hand out pardons to some of our incarcerated citizens, guilty or not. I am begging and praying that he will pardon our border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and José Compean. Please join me in calling the White House comment line. Their freedom, their families are worth it. One of them have a 2 year old son who does not even know his father. And they did nothing wrong.
WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE:
1 202 456 1414
Please call as many times as you can!
Monday, October 6, 2008
Once Saved, Always Saved . . . right . . ?
The topic of whether or not a person can lose their salvation is a highly debated one amongst believers everywhere. Many Christians appeal to the fact that the Bible says we are secure, sealed, that salvation is eternal, and that no man can pluck you from his hand, to argue that it is impossible to lose your salvation. Many Christians believe in "Once saved, always saved." Is this what the very Word of God says? The Word of God is not a musty old book useful only to the ancient believers, ineffective for our modern lives. If you are a Christian, then the Bible is to be your standard for living. You can go to it for nearly every thing in life.
I have decided to appeal to Scriptures that make it exceedingly plain that you can stray from faith. I may not have every verse there is to be found here, but I worked hard to find as many as possible, then to read each one carefully in order to determine whether or not they truly applied.
Please read these with an open mind, if you are unconvinced. Let me ask you a question. If you could not stray from the faith, why would the apostles, especially Paul, continually warn the believers to stand fast in the faith, do not stray from the faith, do not be deceived, etc, etc, etc? Would Paul and the others not be the biggest jokers if they warned against something they knew could not happen? Paul even said that he was afraid for the ----, lest he had labored in vain for them. He was talking to believers. He was worried that they had turned from the faith.
The following seven are some that I consider very important. After that are the rest of the verses that I found, in order.
2 Peter 2:19-22
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit,"[a] and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."
Colossians 1:21-23
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Hebrews 10:26-27
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:29
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
James 5:19-20
19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul[a] from death and cover a multitude of sin
2 Peter 3:17-18
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Jude 1:5
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
1 Corinthians 10:1-14
1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."[a] 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all[b] these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Romans 11:19-23
19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20 Well said.Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,[a] if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
1 Corinthians 5
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named[a] among the Gentiles—that a man has his father's wife! 2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.[b] 6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.[c] 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavenedbread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did notmean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."[d]
1 Corinthians 6:8-10
8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 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,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 8:9-12
9 But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:13
3 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.
2 Corinthians 7:8-11
For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, whatvehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
2 Corinthians 11:2-4
2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity[a] that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!
Galatians 1:6-9
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 3:1-3
1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,[a] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you[b] as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 4:9-11
9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain
Galatians 5:1-9
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[a] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Galatians 5:19-25
9 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[b] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who areChrist's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:1-6
1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know,[a] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 2:4-8
Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it[a] with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:13-19
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not[a] seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
1 Thessalonians 3:5&8
For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you—
1 Timothy 1:5-7
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, 6 from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:16
16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you
1 Timothy 6:20-21
0 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— 21 by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
2 Timothy 1:13
13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:17-19
17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ[a] depart from iniquity."
2 Timothy 3:10-14
10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
Hebrews 2:1
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away
Hebrews 3:12-19
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:
" Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."[a]
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 10:23
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised isfaithful.
Hebrews 12:5-13
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
" My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives."[a]
7 If[b] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened usas seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
James 1:12-16
12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because[a] your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
2 Peter 2:1-3
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does[a] not slumber.
1 John 5:16-17
16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
2 John 1:7-8
For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ ascoming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we[a] do not lose those things we worked for, but that we[b] may receive a full reward.
Jude 1:4
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God[a] and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:20-21
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Now, after reading these, it is beyond me to see how anyone could NOT be convinced of the possibility of turning from God to your own judgment and destruction. It is written plainly in the Scriptures. Someone very dear to me once said that I only believed in the loss of salvation because it was "A tradition taught me by my parents." No. If my parents had taught me the opposite, I would still look at the Scriptures to see Truth. And so should all of you out there.
I have decided to appeal to Scriptures that make it exceedingly plain that you can stray from faith. I may not have every verse there is to be found here, but I worked hard to find as many as possible, then to read each one carefully in order to determine whether or not they truly applied.
Please read these with an open mind, if you are unconvinced. Let me ask you a question. If you could not stray from the faith, why would the apostles, especially Paul, continually warn the believers to stand fast in the faith, do not stray from the faith, do not be deceived, etc, etc, etc? Would Paul and the others not be the biggest jokers if they warned against something they knew could not happen? Paul even said that he was afraid for the ----, lest he had labored in vain for them. He was talking to believers. He was worried that they had turned from the faith.
The following seven are some that I consider very important. After that are the rest of the verses that I found, in order.
2 Peter 2:19-22
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit,"[a] and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."
Colossians 1:21-23
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Hebrews 10:26-27
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
Hebrews 10:29
29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
James 5:19-20
19 Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 20let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul[a] from death and cover a multitude of sin
2 Peter 3:17-18
17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Jude 1:5
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
1 Corinthians 10:1-14
1 Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, 2 all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7 And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."[a] 8 Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10 nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now all[b] these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Romans 11:19-23
19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." 20 Well said.Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness,[a] if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
1 Corinthians 5
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named[a] among the Gentiles—that a man has his father's wife! 2And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. 3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.[b] 6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.[c] 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavenedbread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did notmean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person. 12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 13But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."[d]
1 Corinthians 6:8-10
8 No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren! 9 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,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 8:9-12
9 But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols? 11 And because of your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? 12 But when you thus sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
1 Corinthians 16:13
3 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.
2 Corinthians 7:8-11
For even if I made you sorry with my letter, I do not regret it; though I did regret it. For I perceive that the same epistle made you sorry, though only for a while. 9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. 10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 11 For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, whatvehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
2 Corinthians 11:2-4
2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity[a] that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!
Galatians 1:6-9
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
Galatians 3:1-3
1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth,[a] before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you[b] as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 4:9-11
9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? 10You observe days and months and seasons and years. 11 I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain
Galatians 5:1-9
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[a] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.
7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Galatians 5:19-25
9 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[a] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[b] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who areChrist's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:1-6
1 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; 4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this you know,[a] that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Colossians 2:4-8
Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it[a] with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.
Colossians 2:13-19
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not[a] seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
1 Thessalonians 3:5&8
For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain.8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always have good remembrance of us, greatly desiring to see us, as we also to see you—
1 Timothy 1:5-7
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, 6 from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:16
16 Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you
1 Timothy 6:20-21
0 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— 21 by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.
2 Timothy 1:13
13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:17-19
17 And their message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone who names the name of Christ[a] depart from iniquity."
2 Timothy 3:10-14
10 But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra—what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
Hebrews 2:1
1 Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away
Hebrews 3:12-19
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:
" Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion."[a]
16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Hebrews 10:23
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised isfaithful.
Hebrews 12:5-13
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:
" My son, do not despise the chastening of the LORD,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
6 For whom the LORD loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives."[a]
7 If[b] you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened usas seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
James 1:12-16
12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
1 Peter 5:8-9
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because[a] your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
2 Peter 2:1-3
1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does[a] not slumber.
1 John 5:16-17
16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.
2 John 1:7-8
For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ ascoming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves, that we[a] do not lose those things we worked for, but that we[b] may receive a full reward.
Jude 1:4
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God[a] and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:20-21
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Now, after reading these, it is beyond me to see how anyone could NOT be convinced of the possibility of turning from God to your own judgment and destruction. It is written plainly in the Scriptures. Someone very dear to me once said that I only believed in the loss of salvation because it was "A tradition taught me by my parents." No. If my parents had taught me the opposite, I would still look at the Scriptures to see Truth. And so should all of you out there.
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