Are you just trying to be argumenative? If a person is UNDER the blood of Christ, that person is SAVED because the blood covers the sins. God applies our crimes against God, nature and others to Christ’s account and he applies Christ’s righteousness to our accounts.
Does NOT matter what the person was FORMERLY; it only matters that NOW he is IN CHRIST.
Argumentative? NO…..........Defensive, perhaps. I’m not defending Michael for anything he did in his past. I will, however, defend the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. I’m glad to see you acknowledge that a persons past is exactly that…...but the cleansing blood of Jesus gives everyone a clean slate. I’m just troubled when an individual uses someone’s past to insinuate that because of their past, there isn’t a possibility that a conversion could take place. If you read your posts, that’s exactly what you aluded to. Sure is a condemning statement for a lost person who hears these words and then wonders if God could love them enough to save them.
FACTS IS FACTS. Wishing the BEST for Michael won’t benefit him one iota. Wishing him the WORST won’t hurt him in the least. It simply does NOT matter what we think. We don’t get a say.
If he indeed repented, that’s great.
Wow…....that’s close to what I said and exactly what I meant. I sure trust that you mean it too.
But, like the other guy said, there no evidence of change NOT even a public profession of faith let alone a renounciation of any of his former allegiances.
Well, you don’t know if there was any kind of public profession or not. I guess since it didn’t come from Michael directly to your ears, it didn’t occur. I rather suspect the individual that posted what you had much rather believe over anyone claiming to know Michael personally and stated that this indeed, was true, was much like yourself. My conclusion—doubtful and deny that the blood of Christ is sufficient for all sins, and that salvation is a gift for ALL people.
If it makes you feel good to believe he was saved, great, but it does not change what he did in this life and the destruction he left in his path. To that we can speak. The day will come and we’ll all know how things worked out and what really happened. Nothing will be hidden; everything will be brought out into the light. Far as we know, he went to his grave claiming to be innocent. We’ll see but there is no jury that can be duped over there.
Yes, it would make me feel good to know that he accepted Christ as his Savior prior to death, and it sure makes me feel better to know that this possibly did happen. The absolute certainty, we will not know in this life. However you insistently bring up, “but it does not change what he did in this life and the destruction he left in his path”. Again, flagrant denial in the power of the Blood to save a person for their past sins.
It’s amazing at how much you know about this man. Unless you have inside information, it has been determined that these accusations were not true, and that has been determined by our legal system. I won’t say that everything Michael did was done using his best judgement, but nevertheless, we have no proof…....and you have no proof that he did anything of which you accuse him.
.........and since you are so leery of our legal system, I trust you never have the opportunity to sit on a jury in a court of law. Please forewarn the judge that you believe the jury just might get duped…..see how far that gets you.
