@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung But you just contradicted yourself. You said no man can take us out of his hand. And then you said if a man doesn’t do works, he CAN remove himself from God’s hand.
@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung But that’s not how substitutionary atonement works. It’s either 100% Jesus or 100% you. There’s no mixing of the two. If even one atom of you and your performance counts toward your salvation (or the maintaining of your salvation) then you will not be saved.
@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung You believe you have to have works or you will lose your salvation. That means you believe works save. Shout it from the mountain tops if that’s what you believe is true. Buy you keep trying to make it sound like you don’t actually believe that. Why?
@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung So just to clarify what you said... I asked if you were saved by keeping the law, and your answer was about your works. So you believe your works were necessary in order to be saved. Is that correct?
@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung The context of 1 John 3 is law. An unsaved person is still under the law and therefore still sins because they haven’t believed solely on the Son yet. A saved person cannot sin because they are no longer under the law.
@BrishawnS@kevinmyoung No, we are NEVER to trust in our own works for justification before God. We’d be trusting in the works of a sinner. Our works are filthy rags, and doing so cancels grace