1Pe 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unfeigned love of the brothers, love one another fervently out of a pure heart,
The above verse I think is saying obedience to the truth is purifying my soul. Does this obedience mean simply not adhering to mans tradition. In other words for example, Ray pointed out with many scriptures there is no such place as hell but quite the opposite.
So having received the truth and excepting the truth is this in itself consider obedience to the truth or obeying the truth?
Now I find also in the book of Peter three other verses which are of great concern to me.
1Pe 2:11 Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.
1Pe 1:14 Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.
1Pe 1:23 Do this because God has given you new birth by his message that lives on forever.
So, Does 1 Pe 1:22 fulfill in us 1Pe 2:11 and 2:14 because we reject not the truth?
One more thing also has Ray himself ever translated the new testament from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts into English if so I would like to know where I can purchase a copy?
Hello Richard,
There are many trials and tribulations that our Lord puts us through to purify our souls and bring us into his kingdom. Ray goes over the many scriptures that refer to our salvation in his paper "How hard is getting saved?" (
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,3849.0.html). This paper contains what is obedience by God's standards which in a nutshell is doing everything He tells us to do.
Yes, these scriptures from Peter
are being[Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is (1John 3:2)] fulfilled in us as are ALL scriptures. Remember, 'As He is, so are we in the world' [1 John 4:17]
And no, Ray has not translated the Hebrew & Greek scriptures into English. And rest assured, if he did, he would certainly not look to sell and make a profit from them.
Hope this helps,
Marques