03/05/19 TWO ERRORS

03/05/19 TWO ERRORS

1. Sinning Religion: sin does not separate Christians from God.
2. Struggling Religion: God does not separate Christians from sin.

SHORT EXPLANATION
These two errors, false doctrines, lies are not necessarily mutually exclusive. A deceived person can hold to both ideas at the same time.

These two errors are reactions to God's call and God's provision of holiness of heart and life.

To reject the cleansing, empowering fullness of the Holy Spirit is to give into the pollution and the practice of sin.

Sinning Religion believes that a saved person cannot do anything to forfeit their salvation because God has unilaterally and unconditionally chosen them to be saved aside from the obedience of faith. They believe that since Jesus died for them they will never have to face penalty for any sins they may commit in the future. This is of course, contrary to the word of God. This misinterpretation of the Atonement is called Penal Atonement.

Struggling Religion is the false doctrine that Christ did not deliver His people from the power and pollution of sin. They believe that they will always have an inner cities that will fight against the will of God. They often refer to The inner struggle addressed in Romans 7 as if it is the pattern for Christian living. They totally discount and disregard clear statements in chapter 7 and all of chapter 8.

Christians will always fight the devil and temptation but God delivers us from the old nature, so that we can love God with the whole heart, mind, soul and strength, so that we can keep His commandments and do that which is pleasing in His sight.

Christ delivers from the inner struggle in this present evil world. There is a present and promised rest from inner struggle attainable in this life.