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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
I was merely pointing out the policability of the verses you use to lead up to your questions. I’m not a bible literalist and the bible literalists in here only think the only Christians are Christians who look and think like them.
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Ahh, well no. So let's define what a Christian is. Simply defined, it's someone who has Christ living in them, right?
Someone with Christ living in them can think and do all sorts of things - in fact, they can behave just like unbelievers and do everything unbelievers do. In other words, a child of God can go into a far country, waste their substance on riotous living and sleep with the hogs in despair. But they're still a child of the King and Father still loves them!
I think this forum, and specifically this thread, points to the fact that we're all over the proverbial map when it comes to how we take scripture.
(and someone can do all the things according to the law and be a very good person, but without Christ living in them, they are not a child of God and are lost)