Refuting Other People's Heresies

I wrote this sin response to a video refuting Catholicism.

But I submit that there is a general principle here as regards refuting other errors and heresies, not just those of Rome

 In just about every refutation of Catholicism I have seen we protestants who make them always make ourselves out to be saints and heroes

But what if assenting to certain doctrinal statements is NOT the same as saving faith  (being necessary but not sufficient)?

What if commitment to a doctrine is NOT  the same as believing it?

What  if forced action against our own hearts as regards doubt fear and the lusts of the flesh is NOT  obedience nor faith  but is forsaking Christ for the law to be perfected in the flesh

If these are so then we act like Catholics but only have a few craps of sound doctrine  where they do not.

And that makes US worse, for we know better but still, in our own self deception,  we are also backslid if not apostate

Catholicism is an easy target,

But to look at our own carnality and what it demonstrates, to look at our  unbelief being what our impulses and careless words indicate  ( and if you know your bibles you KNOW that as we will be judged on our careless words then that is because they indicate unbelief and hypocrisy  being who we are, for "as a man thinks so he is" and "out of the heart of man comes evil thoughts" and  "the mouth speaks the fullness of the heart.

what about these???

There are TWO types of those who have forsaken Christ

This piece was posted in reply to a video saying that the problem with Lutheran preaching is soft antinomianism.

And my slowing evolving position is summarized in the title I append here, namely that there are TWO types of those who have forsaken Christ, and not just the one, namely the legalist

It is as follows:

 if the Lutherans preach the gospel the problem is NOT their teaching.

the thing is human nature has ONLY two alternatives,

legalism which is to forsake Christ for the Law, being fooled by the idea that their efforts do constitute  true law keeping ( they do not) and that these efforts  are obedience to the Holy Spirit ( they are not)

or lawlessness which is falsely called grace but which, in refusing to come to him personally in one on one relationship is no such thing. 

real grace TRANSFORMS the recipient and that as a process of renewal of the mind in one one one discipleship

to see no transformation even over years in an easy believer is to see that they have forsaken Christ for self indulgence

and to see only deterioration in the legalist over years -  and because law stirs up sin and makes it worse deterioration is the only possible outcome  - is to see that they  have  forsaken Christ for the law

the  problem is UNBELIEF, not the unbelief of failing to assent to proposition but the failure of coming to the Lord the spirit  IN PERSON to be changed,  healed and nurtured by Him:

IN PERSON

I come at this from the pole of an  extreme legalist. it is my besetting sin.

the dynamic of coming to the lord to be transformed in person  ( AND STAYING WITH HIM)  to become what the Law requires is TOTALLY DIFFERENT from that of the legalist vainly trying to keep a law he cannot keep and hoping for a help that never comes, or  that of the easy believer who thinks that merely being a Christian is the same thing as having a relationship with Christ