What mistake do most Christian make that widens the road to damnation?

[Magenta]

Revelation 3 verse 8; Luke 13 verse 24 ~ Behold, I have placed before you an open door, which no one can shut. Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

 

[Magenta]

So refreshing to read pieces of truth like this.

Also odd to see you agreeing that God is an absolute necessity in the process of coming to believe. Many free willers deny this fact. They claim the natural man has everything he needs in order to decide to accept what Scripture says he cannot accept. They claim the natural man has everything he needs in order to decide to choose to believe that which is foolishness to him, when Scripture asserts that he does not have the faculties to comprehend the spiritual things of God. Many free willers claim the natural man has everything he needs in order to decide to come into the light even though Scripture says such a person refuses to come into the light because their deeds are evil. The natural man is that bad tree that cannot bring forth the good fruit of faith, except in the theology of the free willer, and in that case you contradict what Jesus said at many turns. In fact many free willers deny that the natural man is evil at all. They essentially claim this is overstated in the Bible and that people are really not that bad despite everything said to the contrary in Scripture. We have even been told that men did not get really bad until the flood even though the very first man born murdered his next younger brother. How bad does bad have to get before it is considered bad? Jesus said there are none good. Good cannot come out of bad is reiterated throughout Scriptures but vehemently denied just as often by those who refuse to accept what is said of the human heart, which man cannot change.

Romans 8 verse 7a, Galatians 5 verse 17, John 1 verse 5, John 14 verse 17 ~ The mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. The flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. Darkness does not comprehend the Light. The world cannot receive the Spirit of Truth, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him.

 

[Magenta]

Romans 10 verses 9-10 ~ If you confess with you mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. With your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

 

[Magenta]

Pelagian heretics insist man is inherently good. From within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. Mark 7 verses 21-22 Every inclination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Genesis 8 verse 21b Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one! Job 14 verse 4 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Matthew 7 verse 18

 

[Haidabo]

What mistake do most Christian make that always
Leads to their downfall?


The correct answer:

Disobedience

 

[decipher]

If people don't make the decision to believe then they are just sock puppets with no agency. God enables people to believe; he doesn't do it for them

Romans 3: 10-12 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one. This verse clearly explains that left to ourselves without God's interference, no one is righteous. We are all subject to our motivation for living which is love of self. Believing involves both the heart and the mind. So many so called "Christians" believe with just their minds. Believing with your heart is a state of being produced by God whereby our motivation for living changes to love of God first and all others as we love ourselves. This is what happens when we are born again. John 1: 13 Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God.

 

[decipher]

Ezek 3: 18-19 When I say unto the wicked, Thou salt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Give God the glory! My soul has been delivered! Thank you Lord for those who turn from their wicked way of thinking.

 

[homwardbound]

I can think of 2 possibilities here.

1. Not forgiving others [like we're instructed to or we won't be forgiven]

2. Unrepented Sins [believing one can sin because Jesus died for all sins]


Looking at the 2nd possibility presents several issues such as (license to sin) and the doctrine Jesus only died for the chosen [but dying for all sins would have to mean all sins period as in every human being saved or never will be saved sins].

If I walk around and expect God to forgive me but I never forgive those who do me wrong then I am nowhere like God (we are to be imitators of God and do as He did).

If I sin today and don't repent then that is still a sin that God remembers because it hasn't been applied to the shed blood that takes place when I ask for forgiveness.

There's other issues that can be mentioned but these 2 seem to be the most debated about.

Brother, either by God Father and Son, you are reconciled, forgiven 2 Cor 5:16-20, Eph 1:7, 1John 2:1-2, 3-4, 12 done once for us all at the cross, that is done is it not? Now, what to do? since, one sins again afterwards and has; all of us, and hide that too. I have and admit I am not perfect, want to be, not seeing I am made perfect by God as in Col.1:21-23. Trying to do, what is done by Son first. What is already done for me and all the world by God for us all to believe God? receive truth from God, not self or anyone else. To walk new and love all in the same mercy of love given you first 1John 4:19. as is the rest of all too by God Farther in risen Son, it is done John 19:30, John 1:29
Or, there is more to do, as if Christ's done work was not or is not good enough. on that cross. It is the risen Son where new born new life is given to all those that will not quit belief to see its truth from God Father. Which, does not get taught by people in general, trying to be right over others, then think they are being pleasing to God, as no flesh can do that now. Since by Son that is done Romans 8:1-3. And everyone sees they can't do it perfect ever of themselves or anyone else. Religion has taken the place of God's done work, over Son, done once for us all on that cross. The death was and is for being forgiven by God Father through Son, first. The death was to reconcile us all as forgiven, as if no one ever sinned to begin with. All that got left is to believe Son as risen for you to be new from God Father working it all out through you in love and mercy to all. Has God ever berated you for sinning again? Religion has, and even self, being made aware of of sin. That is how evil gets in, being made aware of sin under Law, and traps people in sin, not wanting to sin, yet do. Re-read Romans 7 and trust Daddy, PaPa, Father to reveal this truth to you, and see new as in Romans 3:31

Wait, But I just sinned again , I had a lustful thought, and God says I am forgiven still, by that done work of Son for us all (Hebrews 10:10), even though I know I have sinned again and did not want to. I did it anyways! God, I do not want to, yet I do what I do not want, I do! What is up
What? How?
God, telling us each personally to die to self, Romans 6:1-12 first birth willingly, between God and you. Anyone that willingly does that will begin to see new, being now sealed by God to see it through, Eph 1:13, no matter how long it might take to see it. Those that will not deny God. Even though upset over troubles we all go through here on earth first. Choose to not deny God as even Job would not and deeper in Jesus the Son who reconciled everything to his Father God for us to new, receive the new Life in risen in Faith belief only, Son Spiritually alive for us, as you already know all this within you too, as God loves us all, otherwise that cross would not have ever happened to begin with, to me at least, only sharing this Love of God shared with me as you do the same too

 

[homwardbound]

The road to salvation is narrow and few are those that find it. There are so many Christian churches and denominations in the USA which tells me that because the road to damnation is wide they must have a common error in their thinking. John 6: 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that yebelieve on him whom he hath sent. John 3:27 John answered, and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. John 1: 12-13 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even (that is) to them that believe on his name; Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, not of the will of man, but of God. The mistake that most Christians make is that instead of giving God the glory for their salvation, they give it to themselves because it is they that made the decision to believe and trust in Jesus. 1 Cor 1: 29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

All roads, all religion and all choices lead to either believe God personally and be new in love and mercy to all, the same as Son did willingly for us all to live new in the risen Life, not the dead one. At least for me, I now see this as God sees to reveal to whomever God chooses, according to each person's motive/. God knows what to reveal and what not yet to reveal to every person. Hebrews 5:12-6:3 time to be willing between God and you to see new and not fight or argue, just love all is the call. Yes, those you hate as well. How? By God's done work of Son for you too, thank you