how old is the Christian philosophy of sin all you want and go to heaven if you accept christ?

Question

i never heard of it before the seventies. it is the idea that you need not repent or be baptised or confess or stop sinning or anything as long as you have "accepted" christ as your savior. i call it he sin your way to heaven theory. what is an early reference to it.

Answer 1

That is not the Christian philosophy. Except Christ and be forgiven is.. He creates in us a new heart that hates sin. Do we still sin? Yes.. We have to live in this Old body of death. But we no longer sin. It is sin that is in this body that still rebels against God.. We strive to bring the flesh under control of the Spirit of God. Paul taught the church in Eph 2:8-10
By grace we are saved through faith and that not of ourselves it is a gift of God not of work lest any man should boast Who created us in Christ Jesus to do good works... Jim

Answer 2

The earliest form of this was the gnostic sects of early Christianity that taught that only a person's spirit was important and they could do whatever they wanted with their bodies. Here's an excerpt from a commentary I did on the 7 churches of the book of Revelation.

http://web.express56.com/~bromar/html/ephesus.html

b. Antinomian Development of Gnosticism (ISBE)

But another and contrary result also followed from the principles of the sinfulness of matter and of redemption as deliverance from the flesh, namely, that there was an easier way of relief, by treating the soul and the body as separate entities which have nothing in common. Let the soul go its way on the wings of spiritual thought, while the body may indulge its fleshly desires. For, so it was held, as body and soul are entirely distinct in their nature, the spiritual cannot be defiled by anything, however carnal and gross, that the body can do. This was the antinomian development of Gnosticism. Many traces of this are apparent in the Pastoral Epistles and in 2 Peter and Jude.

Answer 3

You need to look up "Calvinism", "Eternal Security", and "Once Saved Always Saved". John Calvin was a thologian back in the 1600's (first book published in 1534), who promoted the idea of eternal security for Christian believers.

Basically, according to Calvin, people who accepted Christ did not have any responsibility towards God or Man once they were saved. Since God had done all that was necessary to provide Salvation for humans (and there was nothing a human could do to earn it), it was a free gift. Free gifts DON'T COME with "strings attached". If we can't do anything to EARN salvation, we can't do anything to LOSE salvation.

Naturally, there is a lot of theology against the doctrine of Eternal Security (OSAS). Have fun reading!

Answer 4

that has never been a christian philisophy. The belief in the clean slate that is offered through faith in Jesus Christ has been here since Jesus Christ...imagine that! THe acceptance of christ fogives sins past present and future it does not give a all access pass to sin...the bible still warns of punishment for sin even after salvation. God may forgive you but the consequences of sin are not always removed

Answer 5

The "philosophy" you write about is simply the result of the confusion caused by the variations in the 31,000 different doctrines preached by today's Christian denominations, and by the disgustingly poor teachng job the Catholic Church has done, since the mid 1960's.

But God's truth never changed.

Answer 6

From the beginning. I forgot book chapter and verse but in one of Pauls letters he addressed this exact same problem. People were going around beleiving they were forgiven and saved, so therefore it did not matter what they did.

I was Baptized the first time at age 14 in 1966 and was taught that once saved always saved so it did not really matter what I did I would never fall from grace or lose my salvation.

Answer 7

i was raised catholic, but now am a believer in science,therefore evolution ,the bible is fables , and what one must do sounds like blackmail to me,sin is human nature without binding rules,I'm OK with those rules howe'ver but a " true god" would be able to overlook the idiosyncrasies of humanity and accept us all no matter what we've done.if there is a supreme being weve been challenged to learn the rules of the universe if we wish to foray into that world,because if we simply made contact with other beings we must be able to get along...check my groups next week to see more of what im talking about

Answer 8

for people who have faith that guy is sinful and in desire of redemption by ability of a Savior, the theological problems offered by ability of evolution are somewhat compelling motives to reject that concept. some proponents of theistic evolution have mentioned that for the time of a few unspecified time sooner or later, God would have imparted a soul/ spirit to a minimum of certainly one of His creatures as a result differentiating that creature in a qualitative way from the the remainder of His earthly introduction. This attempt to handle the theological themes offered by ability of evolutionary concept gives you its own issue, specifically that for the time of a few unspecified time sooner or later in time, a individual with a soul/ spirit could have had "soulless" non-human mothers and dads. besides, Christians see a international packed with purpose, layout, and surprising complexity and intricacy, for which, only naturalistic motives bearing directly to its foundation are altogether inadequate. Christians who attempt to reconcile the Bible with evolutionary concept are compelled to leap by way of some logical and theological hoops, and are, i think, ultimately unsuccessful in the attempt. maximum Christians, for this reason, detect a motel to a perception in theistic evolution, at appropriate, pointless; and after all, maximum evolutionists could reject any rationalization for introduction that comprises divine intervention. To S.H. "Do ye not for this reason err, because of the fact ye comprehend not the scriptures, neither the capability of God?" Mark 12:24 while you're actually not a scorner, yet are truthfully keen to seek for God with all your coronary heart, and keen to obey the fact whilst that's revealed to you, God provides you with greater mild-- see John 7:17

Answer 9

It is actually a heretical belief called "antinomianism." Paul condemned it in his Epistles, thus it is quite old. See Romans chapters 3 (end) and 6 (first few verses).

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/antinomi.htm

Answer 10

First of all all men sin and none are without it.If you know of a way that a man can live and not sin PLEASE tell us all.The Bible teaches that the very thought is sin and that the hearts of men conceive all manner of evil.Secondly there is no remission from sin save for the blood of Christ.Thirdly his own disciples sinned after and while they were with him.Do you think that we are better than they.

Get thee from me Satan.