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Re: The Proverbs: Practicality in Everyday Life [message #6440 is a reply to message #6238]

Fri, 11 December 2009 19:49

james
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"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man,

but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12

We understand this scripture when applying it to the unregenerate world, but what about Christians who have set aside God's Word as the standard by which they live and have decided that they can obey God based on what 'seemeth right to them'? Will their end results in death or loss of salvation? Is there a place a person can come to in their christian walk where they can just say, 'well, this is NOT the unpardonable sin', and go ahead and do it or advise others to? Why would someone do this, is it a 'catholic mentality', where people willfully sin(after all, it's not the unpardonable sin, so therefore God surely will forgive me) then ask forgiveness over and over. Or is it just selfrighteousness, where people believe they have 'grown' beyond what they were taught and now in re-examining those teaching, determine(through the reasoning of their own minds) that that which they had embraced with joy, they now find as legalistic and narrow.

There is a WAY, that seemeth right, I mean everybody else is doing it, surely we are 'free' to walk as we see fit(after all we ARE christians and Jesus set us free). After all, it 'seems' right to celebrate the birth of Jesus; it 'seems' right to celebrate His resurrection; it 'seems' right to defend your family; it 'seems' right to try to make social changes through political activism; it 'seems' right to go to the doctor for healing(after all, didn't God give them all that wisdom and knowledge to bring glory to Him?); it 'seems' right for a woman to be able to...pastor and control churches, do as she wills with her own body(birth control,abortion), dress as she pleases; it 'seems' right to borrow money, after all, the whole world does it; it 'seems' right to rant and rail against those in authority, I mean, we are American citizens and it is our RIGHT!; it 'seems' right to allow two people who love each other to marry, even if they are of the same sex; it 'seems' right to believe that we aren't the only ones with the truth, and that there are many ways to heaven and it's too exclusive and divisive to think that God would only allow it to be through Jesus;...

YET, God's Word says and teaches that all these issues/traditions/choices, are NOT what God says is RIGHT. They only seemeth 'right' unto MAN.

And the end thereof is death.

It comes down to BELIEVING God's Word..."For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven." Ps.119:89

And that It's not not up for personal interpretation, only obedience.

[Updated on: Sat, 12 December 2009 13:45]

“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”

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