Quote from: squalltorpedo on June 14, 2008, 03:03:31 AM

MGB....going to give you some constructive critiscism here,  you tend to come across in your posts in a tone of "self-righteousness"  (ain't nuthin" wrong with me) attitude in as much as you seeem to take pleasure  pointing out where "you feel" (not necessarily God) "everyone" else has it wrong.....each and everytime.  I think Marc and Freeman make some very valid points for which I have also made "the exact same points" on other occassions, and you just don't acknowledge a hoot of truth to the same observations.  Btw....Not every sin is "cavalier" as you say.....sometimes poeple sin by doing what they "didn't  mean to do" and therefor disqualifies what you said describing sin in one mode only (ie cavalier)....which does in fact miss the marc!  I don't see the same attitude in Toadbat or others, and they agree with most of what you'd agree with, so what I'm telling you isn't based on the position you take, it's more an attitude thing.

 answer.....I agree with you about willful sins and sins of omission. But i dont agree that there is a different standard of sin before God. Look there are sins that cause much more suffering than other sins, but that does not mean that we escape the degree of the judgment of God by a particular sin. God always deals with His children through discipline to maturity, not a punishment for sin relationship. He does not repay us according to our sins. There is a lot more sin that can be done by not acknowledging the Calvinist view point because sins of omission are committed by not desiring or longing for the things of grace in order for those things to happen in time. We do believe in longing grace.

 If we share with God our ability and we are rewarded by our ability, then we are requiring what we cannot do. So that is sin, since our longing grace is the birth of the power to perform by the acknowledgment that the power does not come from us. But the cause of the power is in object we long for. So we can waste a lot of time in the omission of righteousness by having confidence in ourselves and thus sin by that. Grace is always free and it is all we need. I hope you see the difference.