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Originally Posted by Ohio
Firstly, I said not to use the expression "another gospel" indiscriminately.
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And I would agree. Justyn over at the Bereans was big on throwing that around.
But a gospel in which sin is never confronted is not the gospel I see in the "gospels" or in the epistles. There was a reason Lee hated James and it was because it confronted sin rather than just dismissing it as having been covered by God's grace. It
is covered, but it is also something that continues, and we are not told to just keep applying grace, but to confront it. Waiting for the dispensing is avoidance of that confrontation. That is not the gospel that Jesus taught.
Unless the gospel is just about initial salvation. About making that decision.
And I don't think you believe that. You believe that the gospel is the whole thing. The good news is not just salvation and heaven. It is changed lives right here on earth.
And lives unworried about righteousness — that are putting off that problem until there is enough dispensing — are not followers of Jesus in that aspect. I do not think it makes them unsaved. But it does mean they are following a different gospel. Either altered or incomplete. Yes, the salvation of Christ is the center and the starting point. But the LRC's gospel really skips this life — at least the part that you live in the world.