Adstar said:
There is a huge difference between a Nazi soilder and former peoples in the OT. The Nazi soilder was following the orders of a man the Jews where following the orders of God Himself. God is not a faulty man...
The average Jew was following the orders written in a book that he had been told was the word of God. Both have to reject the moral compass that God has given them. Both have become amoral with no moral basis to determine if any writing or action is right or wrong.
Adstar said:
Here again this has nothing to do with the existance or otherwise of God, This is about your disagreement with God's judgements..
I agree! I never said that this has anything in the universe to do with the existence of God. This is about my own moral disagreement with material written within a book that was printed by men on a printing press.
Adstar said:
The only change is who carries out the sentencing and death penalty.
Where is this clearly stated in the Bible. I really want to know. Thanks
Adstar said:
Adstar, as far as I can tell, salvation has always been according to our works both in the Old Testament and the New as clearly taught (below) by Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jesus, and Paul. Faith without works is, “dead Jim”, it has always been that way. Paul does not have any authority over God to change that. It was even that way in the Garden of Eden account, they stood and fell by their actions, did they not? Sorry, but to me this is simply an undeniable fact of scripture! This is taught in virtually every single book in the Bible. About all I can say is that if Paul denies what Jesus taught concerning this at any point then he is in direct conflict with not only Jesus, but with his own writings, and also with the prophets. Of course I could be wrong!
Millions of people know and have believed this since the days of Adam and Eve. If you can make this little problem “truly” go away, then please write a book and use it to reunite the body of Christ which has been fractured and broken over this issue for centuries. Best wishes to you! I will certainly read it!
Anyway, here are only a very few examples:
SALVATION IS ACCORDING TO DEEDS
Jeremiah 17:10
10"I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.
Jeremiah 32:18-19
18who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God The LORD of hosts is His name;
19great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;
Ezekiel 18:20-30
20"The person who sins will die The son will not bear the punishment for the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
21"But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
22"All his transgressions which he has committed will not be remembered against him; because of his righteousness which he has practiced, he will live.
23"Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked," declares the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?
24"But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.
25"Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not right ' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
26"When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die.
27"Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
28"Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
29"But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?
30"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. "Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you.
Here are clear examples from Jesus:
Matthew 16:24-27
24Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.
25"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
26"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
27"For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.
Matthew 25:31-46
The Judgment
31"But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.
32"All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats;
33and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.
34"Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in;
36naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.'
37"Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?
38'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?
39'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'
40"The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'
41"Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;
42for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;
43I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.'
44"Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?'
45"Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'
46"These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Paul even agrees with Jesus (Matthew 16:24-27 & 25:31-46) here:
Romans 2:5-7
5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:
7to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
2 Corinthians 5:9-10
9Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
2 Thessalonians 1:11
11To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power,
There are others…
Sorry, I didn't have time to convert these passages to the NKJV.
Thanks, Adstar!