Five Points of Calvinism
By the acronym TULIP
The five points appear to assert that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy,
and that his efforts are not foiled by their faults or weakness.
However, logic, reason, and Scripture show this to be WRONG. No one either believed or taught this novelty before the 16th Century!
Total Depravity
takes the view that sinfulness pervades all areas of life and human existence so that God must do all the work, from choosing those who will be saved to sanctifying them throughout their lives until they die and go to heaven.
Simply because someone believes something and asserts it to be true does Not make it true! Scriptural foundation is lacking, especially when so much of this doctrine is directly contradicted by Scripture.
A favorite proof verse "Romans 8:1" says that, "now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." But the reading is "now" NOT "from now on". Clearly, if one is in Jesus there is no condemnation. But if one sins grievously he cannot still be 'in Jesus' unless and until he repents of his sins.
Human cooperation is necessary!
Justification, and/or salvation, is the work of God first and foremost, but it's also the work of man exercising his free will, aided by grace, in an ongoing cooperation with God's initiative.
The following verses emphasize and confirm this: Philippians 2:12, Revelation 2:10, Matthew 10:22, 2 Corinthians 7:1-2, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Tim. 4:16, 2 Tim. 2:2, & Luke 7:50.
Unconditional Election
says God chooses who will be saved. Some are chosen for salvation, others are not. Those not chosen are the damned, destined for an eternity in hell.
(2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard 'delay,' but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.")
Limited Atonement
is the view that Jesus Christ died only for the sins of those who will be saved.
Jesus Christ died for all men and for all sinners. 1 John 2:2, John 4:42, 1 John 4:14, 1 Timothy 1:15
(John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him."
(1 Timothy 2:3-4 "This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth."
Irresistible grace
is the belief that God brings the saved to eternal life through the Holy Spirit's Grace, which they cannot resist. Through this action of God the saved are compelled to repent so that they are born again.
None of the Saints in Heaven have been dragged there against their will.
Almighty God, Our God of Love, cannot and will Not act against His own nature, since He is the only truly good being.
God is NOT a stalker or a tyrannical dictator who forces Himself upon us.
Forced love is not love at all!
Why? Because, even though God loves us and wants us, He does not need us, we need Him! God wants us to love Him and to come to Him on His terms, not ours. God wants us to obey His Commandments, not because He forces us to do so, but because we love Him!
Romans 2:4 says that God's grace (kindness) leads us to repent, not that it compels us to repent.
Ephesians 4:7 "But grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift."
Perseverance of the Saints
asserts that the Elect cannot lose their salvation. Because salvation is the work of God the Father; Jesus Christ, the Savior; and the Holy Spirit, it cannot be thwarted. None whom God has called will be lost, they are eternally secure.
But WE can thwart it by sinning against God or by disobeying Him
(In so doing, we will have condemned ourselves)
2 Timothy 2:11-13 (v.12) If we disown him, he will also disown us.
Romans 11:19-22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
God will have no one in Heaven who opposes Him and/or fails to repent.
(Acts 17:30 "God now commands (demands) that we repent",
2 Peter 2:4 & 9-10 "For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment; ---- then the Lord knows how to rescue the devout from trial and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who follow the flesh with its depraved desire and show contempt for lordship.")
Hebrews 10:26-31 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left.
2 Peter 2:20-21 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.
Other Verses
Romans 2:6,
Romans 8:13,
Romans 8:24-25,
1 Corinthians 10:12,
Hebrews 6:11,
Philippians 2:12-13,
1 John 3:21-24,
1 John 4:20-21
See these articles:
Yes, Christians Do Have an Assurance - but Not an Absolute Assurance - of Salvation by Patrick Madrid at Catholic Answers
Once Saved, Always Saved? By Jason Evert at Catholic Answers
Once Saved, Always Saved? Part I by Tim Staples at Catholic Answers
Once Saved, Always Saved? Part II by Tim Staples at Catholic Answers
The Reformers Distorted View of Salvation by Tom Nash at Catholic Answers
Who may NOT be saved?
Who WILL Be Saved?
The Promise of Eternal Life
Salvation is open to every person willing to become like a little child and who will reach for it with love and humility, without a sense of entitlement.
Why?
Because Almighty God wants three major things from us.
Favorite Verses?
Somehow, Protestants manage to feature and hold dear the scriptural verses they like, which tend to comfirm their doctrines.
At the same time, Protestants also manage to ignore, belittle, and contest any scriptural verses which do not support or agree with their doctrines, of which there are many.
The following is a list of Scriptural verses which are not likely to be in agreement with Protestant ideas, as a whole.
Quotes from New American Bible
In the Bible there are no throw-away verses. "If you believe what you like in the gospels,
and reject what you don't like,
it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself." - St. Augustine
If Faith Alone (per Martin Luther) is correct most of these quotes from the bible are either meaningless or beside the point.
But we know that is not the case since all Scripture in the Bible is true, inspired by God, and contains no contradictions when interpreted correctly.
Protestants can check the quotes from their own versions at the
Bible Gateway
(Genesis 4:7 "If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.")
(Psalms 32:10 "Many are the sorrows of the wicked one, but mercy surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.")
(Psalms 44:21 "God who knows the secrets of the heart?")
(Psalms 45:7 "You love justice and hate wrongdoing")
(Proverbs 24:16 "Though the just fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble from only one mishap.")
(Proverbs 27:1 "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.")
(Proverbs 28:13 "Those who conceal their sins do not prosper, but those who confess and forsake them obtain mercy.")
(Ezekiel 36:26-27 "I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.
I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
I will put my spirit within you so that you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep them.")
(2 Maccabees 12:42-46 "Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out.
The noble Judas exhorted the people to keep themselves free from sin,
for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen.
He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas,
which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way,
inasmuch as he had the resurrection in mind;
for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead.
But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness,
it was a holy and pious thought.
Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their sin.")
(Matthew 3:8-10 "Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves,
'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees.
Therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.")
(Matthew 4:17 From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”)
(Matthew 5:18-20 "Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law,
until all things have taken place. Therefore,
whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven.
But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven. I tell you,
unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.")
(Matthew 5:44-45 "But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father,
for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good,
and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.")
(Matthew 5:48 "So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.")
(Matthew 6:1-4 "[But] take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise,
you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you,
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you,
they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing,
so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.")
Matthew 6:21 "For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be."
(Matthew 7:12 "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.")
(Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction,
and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.")
(Matthew 7:20-23 "So by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?' Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.' ")
(Matthew 10:22 "You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved.")
(Matthew 12:33-37 "Either declare the tree good and its fruit is good, or declare the tree rotten and its fruit is rotten,
for a tree is known by its fruit.
You brood of vipers, how can you say good things when you are evil? For from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
A good person brings forth good out of a store of goodness, but an evil person brings forth evil out of a store of evil.
I tell you, on the day of judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak.
By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.")
(Matthew 15:8 "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.")
(Matthew 16:18 "And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church,
and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.")
(Matthew 16:24 "Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.")
(Matthew 16:27 "For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father's glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct.")
(Matthew 17:20 "He said to them, "Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you,
if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,'
and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.")
(Matthew 18:3-4 "Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.")
(Matthew 19:17 "If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.")
(Matthew 19:18-19 "He asked him, 'Which ones?' And Jesus replied, " 'You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother'; and 'you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'")
(Matthew 19:24 "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.")
(Matthew 22:37 "He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.")
(Matthew 23:12 "Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.")
(Matthew 24:13 "But the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.")
(Matthew 24:42 "Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.")
(Matthew 25:31-46 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne,
and all the nations will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father.
Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me,
in prison and you visited me.' Then the righteous will answer him and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you,
or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' And the king will say to them in reply,
'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.'
Then he will say to those on his left,
'Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food,
I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison,
and you did not care for me.' Then they will answer and say, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison,
and not minister to your needs?' He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.'
And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.")
(Matthew 25:45 "what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.")
(Matthew 28:19-20 "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always,
until the end of the age.")
(Mark 10:18 "No one is good but God alone.")
(Mark 12:30 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.")
(Luke 5:32 "I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.")
(Luke 6:31-34 "Do to others as you would have them do to you.
For if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.
If you lend money to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit [is] that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, and get back the same amount.")
(Luke 6:36 "Be merciful, just as [also] your Father is merciful.")
(Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' but not do what I command?")
(Luke 10:25-28 "There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and said, 'Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'
Jesus said to him, 'What is written in the law? How do you read it?'
He said in reply, 'You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.'
He replied to him, 'You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.'"
(Luke 10:27 "He said in reply, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.")
(Luke 11:41 "But as to what is within, give alms, and behold, everything will be clean for you.")
(Luke 12:33 "Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out,
an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.")
(Luke 13:3 & 5 "By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!")
(Luke 14:11 "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.")
(Luke 15:1-7 "The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to him, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this parable.
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, 'Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.'
I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.")
(Luke 15:11-32 "Then he said, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.' So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.
When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. Coming to his senses he thought, 'How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.' So he got up and went back to his father.
While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.' But his father ordered his servants, 'Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.' Then the celebration began.
Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, 'Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.' He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him. He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.'
He said to him, 'My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.'")
(Luke 16:17 "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a letter of the law to become invalid.")
(Luke 18:13-14 "But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, 'O God, be merciful to me a sinner.' I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.")
(Luke 18:19 "Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.")
(Luke 22:31-32 "Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.")
(John 3:16-21 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.")
(John 3:36 "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.")
(John 5:28-29 "Do not be amazed at this, because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out, those who have done good deeds to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked deeds to the resurrection of condemnation.")
(John 6:28-29 "So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.")
(John 6:47-58 THE BREAD OF LIFE
"Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.")
(John 13:34-35 "Love one another... This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.")
John 14:15-21 "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it, because it remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
(John:15:1-17 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love."
"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.")
(John 15:12 This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.")
(John 21:15-19 "When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, 'Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?'
'Yes, Lord,' he said, 'you know that I love you.' Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
Again Jesus said, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' He answered, 'Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.' Jesus said, 'Take care of my sheep.'
The third time he said to him, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?'
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.'
Jesus said, 'Feed my sheep. Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.' Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, 'Follow me!' ")
(Acts 3:19 "Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.")
(Acts 10:42 "He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead.")
(Acts 17:30 "God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent")
(Acts 26:20 "On the contrary, first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem and throughout the whole country of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached the need to repent and turn to God, and to do works giving evidence of repentance."
(Romans 2:4 "Or do you hold his priceless kindness, forbearance, and patience in low esteem, unaware that the kindness of God would lead you to repentance?")
(Romans 2:5-8 "By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself for the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.")
(Romans 2:6 "who will repay everyone according to his works")
(Romans 2:16 "on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people's hidden works through Christ Jesus.")
(Romans 3:24-25 "They are justified freely by his grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as an expiation, through faith, by his blood, to prove his righteousness because of the forgiveness of sins previously committed,")
(Romans 6:1-2 "What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not! How can we who died to sin yet live in it?")
(Romans 6:15-16) "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not! Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?"
(Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.")
(Romans 8:5-6 "Only the spiritual things will save us, the earthly things of the flesh will condemn us.")
(Romans 8:24-25 "For in hope we were saved. Now hope that sees for itself is not hope. For who hopes for what one sees?")
(Romans 11:17-24 "But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. If you do boast, consider that you do not support the root; the root supports you. Indeed you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is so. They were broken off because of unbelief, but you are there because of faith. So do not become haughty, but stand in awe. For if God did not spare the natural branches, [perhaps] he will not spare you either.
See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God’s kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off. And they also, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated one, how much more will they who belong to it by nature be grafted back into their own olive tree.")
(Romans 13:8-10 "Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another;
for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments,
'You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,'
and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, [namely]
'You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.'")
(1 Corinthians 4:5 "Therefore, do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God.")
(1 Corinthians 6:9 "adulterers, fornicators, practicing homosexuals, thieves or the greedy will not inherit the kingdom of God.")
(1 Corinthians 7:19 "Circumcision means nothing, and uncircumcision means nothing; what matters is keeping God's commandments.")
(1 Corinthians 10:12 "Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall.")
(1 Corinthians 13
"If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
(1 Corinthians 15:2 "Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.")
(1 Corinthians 15:33-34 "Do not be led astray: Bad company corrupts good morals." Become sober as you ought and stop sinning. For some have no knowledge of God; I say this to your shame.")
(2 Corinthians 5:10 "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.")
(2 Corinthians 5:18 "And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation")
(2 Corinthians 5:20 "We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.")
(2 Corinthians 6:1 "Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.")
(2 Corinthians 10:17-18 "Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord."
For it is not the one who recommends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord recommends.
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(2 Corinthians 13:5 "Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? - unless, of course, you fail the test.")
(2 Corinthians 13:11 "Finally, brothers, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.")
(Galatians 1:8-9 "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach [to you] a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one that you received, let that one be accursed!")
(Galatians 5:6 "For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.")
(Galatians 5:13 "For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.")
(Galatians 5:19-21 "Now the works of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.")
(Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.")
(Ephesians 4:2 "with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,")
(Ephesians 5:10 "Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.")
(Philippians 2:6–8 "Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.") (See Matthew 16:24)
(Philippians 2:12 "So then, my beloved, obedient as you have always been, not only when I am present but all the more now when I am absent, work out your salvation with fear and trembling.")
(Colossians 3:12-17 "Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.")
(1 Thessalonians 5:2 "For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.")
(2 Thessalonians 2:15 "Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.")
(1 Thessalonians 4:9 Now as to the love of the brothers and sisters, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;")
(1 Timothy 1:18-19 "I entrust this charge to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophetic words once spoken about you. Through them may you fight a good fight by having faith and a good conscience. Some, by rejecting conscience, have made a shipwreck of their faith")
(2 Timothy 2:11-13 This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.) See Also: Matthew 7:21, Luke 15:1-7 & 11-32
(1 Timothy 3:15 "But if I should be delayed, you should know how to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth.")
(2 Timothy 3:17 "so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.")
(1 Timothy 5:8 "And whoever does not provide for relatives and especially family members has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.")
(1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.")
(Titus 3:14 "But let our people, too, learn to devote themselves to good works to supply urgent needs, so that they may not be unproductive.")
(Hebrews 1:9 "You loved justice and hated wickedness")
(Hebrews 5:7-10 "In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, declared by God high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.")
(Hebrews 6:10 "For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones.")
(Hebrews 10:26-31 "If we sin deliberately after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries. Anyone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the testimony of two or three witnesses. We know the one who said: 'Vengeance is mine; I will repay,' and again: 'The Lord will judge his people.' It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.")
(Hebrews 10:38
"But my just one shall live by faith, and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.”)
Hebrews 12:1 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us"
(James 1:17 "all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change.")
(James 1:22-24 "Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.")
(James 2:17 "So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.")
(James 2:19-20 "You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble. Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?")
(James 2:22 "You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,")
(James 2:24 "See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.")
(James 4:6-10 "But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says:
“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds.
Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection.
Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.")
(James 4:17 "So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin."
(James 5:16 "Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.")
(James 5:19-20 "My brothers, if anyone among you should stray from the truth and someone bring him back, he should know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.")
(1 Peter 1:16 "for it is written, "Be holy because I [am] holy.")
(1 Peter 2:21 "For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.")
(1 Peter 3:19-20 "In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison, who had once been disobedient while God patiently waited in the days of Noah during the building of the ark, in which a few persons, eight in all, were saved through water.")
(1 Peter 4:6 "For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead that, though condemned in the flesh in human estimation, they might live in the spirit in the estimation of God.")
(1 Peter 4:18 "And if the righteous one is barely saved, where will the godless and the sinner appear?")
(1 Peter 5:5 "Likewise, you younger members, be subject to the presbyters. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for: God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.")
(2 Peter 1:10-11 "Therefore, brothers, be all the more eager to make your call and election firm, for, in doing so, you will never stumble.
For, in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ will be richly provided for you.")
(2 Peter 2:20-21 "For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of [our] Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.")
(2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord does not delay his promise, as some regard "delay," but he is patient with you, not wishing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.")
(2 Peter 3:15-17 "And consider the patience of our Lord as salvation, as our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, also wrote to you, speaking of these things as he does in all his letters. In them there are some things hard to understand that the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, just as they do the other scriptures."
(1 John 1:6-9 "If we say, "We have fellowship with him,” while we continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of his Son Jesus cleanses us from all sin. If we say, 'We are without sin,' we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing.")
(1 John 2:2 "He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world.")
(1 John 2:4 "Whoever says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.")
(1 John 2:17 "Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains forever.")
(1 John 3:4-10 "Everyone who commits sin commits lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.
You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
No one who remains in him sins; no one who sins has seen him or known him.
Children, let no one deceive you. The person who acts in righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
Whoever sins belongs to the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the devil.
No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot sin because he is begotten by God.
In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God,
nor anyone who does not love his brother.")
(1 John 3:10 "In this way, the children of God and the children of the devil are made plain; no one who fails to act in righteousness belongs to God, nor anyone who does not love his brother.")
(1 John 3:14-18 "We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers. Whoever does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.")
(1 John 3:18 "Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.")
(1 John 3:18-23 "Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. [Now] this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if [our] hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as he commanded us.")
(1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.)
(1 John 4-7-21 "Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.
This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us.
God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. In this is love brought to perfection among us, that we have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.")
(1 John 4:20-21 "If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.")
(1 John 5:2-3 "In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,")
(2 John 1:6 "For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.")
(Jude 1:21-23 "Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. On those who waver, have mercy; save others by snatching them out of the fire; on others have mercy with fear, abhorring even the outer garment stained by the flesh.")
(Revelation 12:9 "The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.")
(Revelation 14:12-13 "Here is what sustains the holy ones who keep God’s commandments and their faith in Jesus. I heard a voice from heaven say, 'Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'
'Yes,' said the Spirit, 'let them find rest from their labors, for their works accompany them.'")
(Revelation 20:12 "I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls.")
Now that we have seen what is lacking in Protestants beliefs, perhaps we should read about what Catholics believe about the Scriptures, What Do Catholics Believe about the Bible?
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