Originally posted by debbiejo
I was saved at the age of 9 and then confirmed again at 19...........so, I guess I'm good!! ..........Is your god gonna throw me into hell??........God or what I would like to call god (which btw has a bad rap on what it is or could be) would send me there...........Isn't there a verse that says "once saved, always saved".........OR IS THAT A DOCTRINE????angel:
Debbiejo the Lord our God is ONE. The Holy Spirit who dwells in believers gives TRUE believers a kindred spirit if you would, and an inward knowing that we serve the same God. There are others on this forum that I can tell have the same Holy Spirit residing on the inside of them that I have. I am able to tell simply by what they write. It is difficult for me to convey this to you. YOU DO NOT have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of you...It is hard for me to say that but I can tell. I can tell if someone knows Jesus and if they don't simply by what they say to me. There are certain things that sort of alert me to this. True, born again, Holy Spirit indwelt believers that I have encountered would NEVER utter the things that you say about the Bible, Jesus, the Father, the Holy Spirit. Many times when I am listening to someone who genuinely knows Jesus, and the Word pours out of their mouth it as though Christ is speaking through them. I can just tell. Well, Jesus did said,
John 10:27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.
How is it that people that I do not know and whom I have never met can say something about the Bible and it ring true in my spirit? Because they have the SAME Holy Spirit that I have living on the inside of them. But I do not get that same "inward witness" when you write. I get a "check" in my spirit whenever you write because what write is so off base and far from the Bible it is conspicuous.
Peter calls this "kindred spirit or kinship" if you would that I am referring to like precious faith.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Jesus told His disciples, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."--John 13:35
Debbiejo, it SEEMS that you do not have this love for other Christians of SUPPOSEDLY like precious faith as you. This is how I can tell that there is something noticeably awry or amiss about your claim of being saved. You sound like the world (i.e., unregenerate humanity that has never bowed the knee as it were to Jesus Christ for salvation from their sins.) When I talk to unsaved folk they sound like you. You seem to have more of a kindred spirit with the world than you do with other believers that I can tell. I truly apologize if this offends you but I just want you to get an idea of what I perceive about this whole situation that other people--who have no clue, they just think I am everything but a child of God--don't understand and probably never will.