Old_Trapper70
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Not at all. His claim is that Trump can lie all he wants since "grace" covers the sin. However, Paul wrote that Grace was not permission to sin, rather it was cause not to sin: Romans 6: 1-4; 15-18
"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life."
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"What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness."
Scripture says to
"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine[/size.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2Timothy 4:1-4
Only towards liars, etc. Why would one trust a liar? Grumpy said that Trump screwed him out of $25,000 in some deal. One of the signs of a conversion Christianity is to restore those he has screwed to their original place. Has Trump done so? He claims to be a "christian", yet denies any allegation made against him even while he pays millions to settle the lawsuit rather then have to testify in Court. However, that was only in the case that was highly publicized.
Again, you do not understand the teachings of Christianity. 1Corinthians 6: 2-5
"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?"
God will judge the hearts of man in the Last Days Judgement (e.g. Acts 17: 31) . However, until that day comes we are required to judge others by their actions, and their words. How else are we to know the truth? How else are we to avoid the traps Satan has set for man? Yes, we all sin, it is in our nature to do so. And we all judge just as you have. Scripture has said to beware of false prophets, and teachers, and those who go about devouring those who have accepted their falsehoods. As Christ said in Luke 12: 57 "“And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?"
Well, I do not search the "soles" of my shoes, I do search my spiritual soul though.
