[CS-FSLUG] TD: Status of Murder (was: Study Bible)

[Timothy Butler]

On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:00 PM, David Aikema wrote:

> 2008/11/11 Keli of Coxsackie <keli at parchmentpress.net>:
>> that is sad theology..  Shall not the judge of world do right?
>
> And what of your theology that says there are folks righteous  
> without Jesus?
> i.e. http://www.twelvetribes.com/publications/3ED/two-trees-three-destinies.html

	In reply to this document (not David, since we seem to agree)... This  
document seems to be doing too much parsing of words. There clearly  
are not multiple groups of semi-saved. That is essentially the  
doctrine of Limbo.

	"Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by  
observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin.  
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known,  
to which the Law and the Prophets testify." (Rom 3.20-21 NIV)

	Clearly, whomever is saved, even if we do try to argue inclusively  
and somehow group some who have never heard the name of Christ, is  
saved only through the righteousness of God. No one can be saved  
through our own righteousness.

	"All of us have become like one who is unclean,
		and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
	we all shrivel up like a leaf,
		and like the wind our sins sweep us away." (Is. 64.6)

	To argue otherwise puts one in grave danger of entering into  
Pelagianism.

	-Tim

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