Phazel
In those same qualifications did you ever find them contradicting to your bible. The reason i ask is becuase the bible does not contain qaulifications in avoiding hell. so i am just wondering... anyhow on to your question/s.
Well alot of the things I was told amounted to things like this. Someone might say they are saved. The good Christian would point out something they did bad and state that they were probably not saved in the first place. I drew the conclusion that I could never be saved cause I knew I always screwed up.
This caused me "for a time" to just forget about God as there really was no use in trying? But, in the depths of my soul or thinking, whichever it may really be I felt that there was a God. I could never explain why I felt this no matter how much I dispaired due to my upbringing. I wanted to know who he was, but for years I did not know how.
Now the verse where God has written on our hearts makes perfect sense!!!
By the aceptance of the Holy Spirit can you ever know what Gods Word really contains !
Thank you for the link.
I think maybe what I am getting at is if the original manuscripts are considered inerrant, or am I missing the point?