Question for Baptists and similar protestants?

Question

I once befriended a 21-yr old baptist from NC. He bragged how he had balled over 100 women in his little NC hometown, They would leave their bedroom windows open at night, await him, &he being tall & agile - would climb in their
windows, climb on them & get busy. He did every girl in town, all the one-story homes.

Today he works in Wall St., parties hard, is letting gay men go down on him weekly, and says that he has no regrets or guilt for anything he ever did. He insists that when he dies he'll be saved, "by the precious blood of Jesus", He claims his Baptist faith teaches him that - as long as he believes in Jesus - His shed blood washes away any sins. this guy, never repented with tears , compunction, sorrow or regret over his fornication in his hometown, nor what he does now. He told his Baptist pastor here in Manhattan about the gay sex, "so they'd know how to pray for me". If you challenge him, his answer is always the same: "I'm saved by His shed blood". Reactions?

Answer 1

That is blasphemy of Jesus blood.

No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. (1 John 3:9)

This kind of Christian is just like dog and pig in the eyes of the Lord. If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit,"[a]and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." (2 Peter 2:22)
This kind of so called Christian again crucify Jesus Christ and put him to shame. As Hebrew 6:4:6 said "4It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because[b]to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace."

Answer 2

i'm sorry to hearken to such trash, i will say the guy is taking part in church, and not saved. A saved individual could desire to no longer do those issues, additionally, to be saved, you come to Christ with a repentive heart, it do no longer seem as though he did any repenting. Confessing his sins to an elder who can forgive him. i will say this, i'm an elder interior the church, and that i won't forgive every physique of their sins. this is why we've an propose with the daddy. Jesus is that propose. No that's no longer what the Baptist coach! This guy isn't Baptist. or the different element that i be attentive to of. If he's, he has a fable that he can do any element he needs and purely be forgiven. If he maintains, God could desire to take him out.

Answer 3

He is no different than those who are homosexual, etc. who claim they are Christian. Their carnal nature, the flesh, still controls them. There is still hope that they will see how sin is still sin... with consequences. On those terms, we all are just as guilty in our own sins that tempt us, even if we have been Christians for many years. The law justifies no one, and those who live by it must keep it. God's grace and mercy is not a license for us to continue to sin. Love for God, His will and desires for us, and love for other people, should be the restraining factor in our actions. Only God knows the intents of our hearts, and is our righteous judge. That is why we are told not to judge.

So do we accept this within the church? No, we are instructed to show them the error, to reprove and instruct them through God's revealed judgements in His Word, with love and concern. The law serves to convict one of sin by the Spirit. Repentance is the outcome of the sorrow we have for the wrong and harm we have done to another, be it God or another person. It comes from the love we have for them in our hearts. If the love of either God or others is not evident within them, after others and the church have also tried, we are to consider them as unsaved... with continued hope that they will see their error and repent. Everyone has free will and choice.

Answer 4

He is a classic case of the sin of presumption - God is so good that He will save me no matter what I do. When he discovers how wrong he is, it will be too late, and the horror of that discovery will be absolute. The Bible makes it clear that (1) repentence from sin is a necessary prerequisite to salvation; and (2) that repentence is not a one-time event. We must continue to repent and turn away from sin our entire lives. "He who endures to the end, he will be saved".

Answer 5

He is very deceived. The Bible makes it clear that when Jesus saves us, we become a new creation. We agree with God that sin is a reproach. In the New Testament it speaks of those that Jesus did not commit Himself to. He knew their hearts that they had never truely repented.

Answer 6

1st John:4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
Matthew 5:27-28 "You have heard it said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Matthew 7:21-23 "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord,Lord' shall enter the kingdom of heaven.(22) Many will say to me in that day 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'(23) And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you: depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness."
To me, the Bible makes it very clear what this kind of behavior will get you. Forgiveness is ours just as soon as we ask for it. But I don't believe that we can go along our merry way, acting in any manner we want to, and still be called a "good and faithful servant". The guy in this story *who is really hard to believe if you want the truth* is certainly not a tree that bears good fruit, is he? Again, in Matthew 7, verse 19 Jesus says "Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."

Answer 7

I'm Catholic, but I know that unfortunately some Baptists (there are a lot of different beliefs within the Baptist church) believe in the "once saved, always saved" thing. That is, no matter what you do in life you are always saved. Personally I find that to be bogus, I mean, what if you completely renounce your faith. Would you still be saved?

Answer 8

This seems like a common problem in todays society. If one would look at the message of Jesus, you would notice he came to uphold the law. He did not die (yet) and for our sins at that. This man, along with many others in the past live by this doctrine as it allows them to do whatever they like. It gives them justification for their bad actions. Though on the day of judgment they will be brought to justice for their sins and transgression. Allah (God) knows best!

Answer 9

Here is a quote from Romans (GNB)

(Romans 6:15) What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!

(Romans 6:16) Surely you know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are in fact the slaves of the master you obey---either of sin, which results in death, or of obedience, which results in being put right with God.

Answer 10

Paul speaks of such people and their misconceptions about salvation. It is true that a man cannot lose salvation, for Christ died once for all sin, but this friend of yours does not understand that slavation is not simply kowledge about Jesus. I bleive your friend does not know or have faith in the same Jesus Christ that I do and that would make his God a false God.