How is your fellowship with God, do you allow Him to abid in your heart? How is your prayer life?
Doesn't one need to know Who Father is and what prayer is before they can truly answer those questions? And shouldn't you be asking those questions of yourself rather than worrying about what someone else's private relationship with God is?
Christ said
"ye shall know them by their fruits (works/actions)
", whether they be good (law-abiding) or evil (sinful/criminal). Do you not realize that Christ came not to multiply evil, but to destroy evil/sin (1 John 2:? If so, why aren't you helping Him do that by eradicating sin in your own life? Or do you have a death wish?
Are you able to recognize the voice of the Good Shepherd?
Father graciously directed me to the Good Shepherd, and has allowed me to assist The Good Shepherd while He is here again on Earth, exactly as prophesied, for which I am eternally grateful.
1 John 2:1-4
2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
2:2 And he is the atonement for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, IF we keep His Commandments.
2:4
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth NOT His Commandments, is a LIAR, and the truth is NOT in him.
It would be very unfortunate if you compensate your absence of fellowship with Jesus by insisting on the importance of being righteous by keeping the Law rather than actually following Jesus.
It is your own arrogance/ignorance that blinds you to the truth, and cons you into making such erroneous judgments in direct violation of Christ's
COMMANDS. Do you have a death wish?
Matthew 7:1-5
7:1
Judge NOT, that ye be not judged.
7:2
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
7:4
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye?
7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Christ plainly stated that we will
ALL be judged according to our works,
by The Law that God gave us, and that anyone who
mistakenly believes differently, or teaches others differently, is the lowest of the low in God's Eyes (
Matt. 5:17-19).
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his WORKS.
John 5:22
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son (
Enoch 58:1;
60:11;
68:39).
John
12:44 Jesus cried and said,
He that believeth me, believeth not me, but Him that sent me.
12:45
And he that seeth me seeth Him that sent me.
12:46
I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth me should not abide in darkness.
12:47
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
12:48
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath One that judgeth him: the Truth that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the Last Day.
12:49
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
12:50
And I know that His commandment is Life Everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
Why then do you insist on saying/writing/instructing others to do the opposite of what Christ, The Good Shepherd, actually teaches? Do you have a death wish?
"Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe."
Galatians 3:21-22
The law merely give you the knowledge of sin and it doesn't make you righteous.
How would any of us know (be able to discern) good from evil without The Law? And once someone rediscovers that obedience to God and His Law/Commandments is life and good and that disobedience to God and His Law/Commandments is death and evil, why would any rational/sane individual choose death and evil over life and good (
Deut. 30:15-20)? Do you have a death wish?
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Why do you
deceitfully leave off the following verse please? Do you have a death wish?
Ephesians 2:8-
10
2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
2:10
For we are His workmanship, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS TO DO GOOD WORKS, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (do them - good works).
"But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His."
Romans 8:9
Amen. It's
impossible to have the Spirit of Christ and continue sinning/breaking The Law.
1 John 3:4-10
3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also The Law: for
sin is the transgression of The Law.
3:5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our (past) sins; and in him is no sin.
3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (Christ) is righteous.
3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the Beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
3:9
Whosoever is born of God (
John 3:3-7)
doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever DOETH NOT righteousness is NOT of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Are you starting to see how anyone who is still working against Christ, by continuing to sin/break The Law, will
NEVER get to know Christ nor recognize His Voice during these
end-times?
Every religions says God might accept you if you do your best to be righteous (like you said somewhere).
You again have it upside down and backwards. Every organized religion teaches people that they should reject God and His
Perfect Law of Liberty (which
IS righteousness), and follow their religious superstitions and teachings instead, which they falsely claim will lead to salvation.
1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he (Christ) is righteous.
And how many have been "saved" (returned to heaven) following the blind guides of organized religion? NOT ONE SINGLE SOUL.
John 3:13
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, [even] the Son of Man which is from heaven.
Jesus already accept you and He changes you so you can walk in the path He made for You.
Agreed. However, if someone doesn't walk the walk, and stay on the strait and narrow Way that leads to Life by following Christ's Example and keeping The Law/Commandments, then they are still rejecting Jesus, choosing instead to remain a prisoner of sin/lawlessness.
John 8:25 Jesus answered them,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the prisoner of sin.
At the end of the day, only you decide whether you want to follow scholars, experts, human reasonings and insights or simply trust God and believe Jesus.
Agreed. And, as Christ said while He was here in the body of Jesus, all of the so-called scholars, experts, etc. are the (spiritually)
"blind leading the blind" and that anyone who follows them are destined for Pit, aka
The Fire.
"Christianity" is
NOT The Way. Christ
IS The Way home (to heaven).
Learn The Way home or face The Fire.