And this conversation has forced me to make decision. From this day forward, I will never do another good work. I will turn a deaf ear to all suffering, I will mock tragedy, and I will never meet the needs of another person. Why?

So when I get to heaven, I can prove to you guys that you can still get to heaven just by faith. I am beginning…NOW.

Does this mean you will be writing for SoL or CRN?

iggy

but i just wanted ya’ll to know that it happened just like I said it would. It only took 3 days, but here you go:

http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/purpose-driven-madness/rick-warren-prayed-in-the-name-of-false-christ-isa/

So when I get to heaven, I can prove to you guys that you can still get to heaven just by faith. I am beginning…NOW.

If you suggest that God is doing good works through all religions then I strongly disagree.

I don’t see how you can disagree. God works through non-Christian people all the time. If I go to a non-Christian doctor and he diagnoses my sickness and helps me get well, that a good work. God used him. That pattern is repeated all throughout the Bible.

I agree there is a difference between the “works” yet to say God does not do His work through unbelievers as well means we need toss out much of the OT.

iggy

I cannot understand this entire conversation. God only has one family, all the others have a different father.

No doubt a person who does not know Jesus can do good works, and even be guided by God to do so… but this if not mixed with faith amount to nothing as far as our relationship.

A Mormon or satanist can do good things like feed the poor, but their motives are what matters. If of God and for God, it is by God… if not it is man’s works that mean nothing in the eternal scheme of things.

The issue is not whether man can do good or not… all men are capable of doing good… it is sustaining doing good that is what cuts us all down… Just as we think we are good at doing good we do something wrong.

The works of God being done by a believer or say the King of Babylon who attacked Israel… are God’s work and will fulfill their purpose according to God’s will.

So no works will not save us but no where in the bible is it stated man cannot do good on his own at times.

This is much which Bonhoeffer as well as Iraenius state in their writings.

iggy

Therefore God is doing all good through everyone from ma Satanist to an evangelical pastore and in tha scenario he gives credibility to heretics and enemies of the cross. So when Bin Laden gives a colleague a cup of water that comes from God?