God calls born again believer "saints" not "sinners." We are not called "sinners saved by grace", we are called what we become after we are born again, that is "saints."
Romans 8:26-27 "26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. 27And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.…"
Romans 1:7
"7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ."
1 Corinthians 14:33
"33 for God is not a God of confusion but of [a]peace, as in all the churches of the saints."
Acts 26:10
"10 And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them."
Ephesians 4:12
"12 for the equipping of the [a]saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;"
You will not find one passage in the Bible that describes the born again believer as "sinner saved by grace."
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such WERE some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God."
1 Corinthians 1:2 "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:"
The modern church is changing the verbiage of the Bible, adding to and removing passages to make it fit with modern vernacular. Many false beliefs have brought into the church hordes of pretenders who feel comfortable in their sin.
Proverbs 30:5-6
"Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar."
I remember many years ago when I was still in the Catholic church the church decided to change the words of a great old hymn to make the people feel better about themselves.
The song was "Amazing Grace", in which the phrase "saved a wretch like me" was removed and replaced with "saved a soul like me."
The writer of the hymn John Newton wrote the phrase "a wretch like me" because he knew just how wicked his soul was before he trusted in Christ. To use a lesser word to describe mankind is to diminish the importance of how lost we are without Christ.
Softening the language in an accurate song is a clue that this culture and the Catholic church would do it with the Bible too, and so they have misinterpreted and messed with God's meanings to create their own false religion.
The Catholic church has asserted that no one can be deemed "a saint" unless they have had a miracle attributed to them and the church has to deem them worthy of sainthood but only if the person is dead. This is absolute insanity and deadly to those who believe they have to work their way to heaven.
So many people have been led down the wide road to destruction by the false teachings in so many churches that the church today looks nothing like that of the first-century gatherings of believers.
1 Timothy 4:1
"Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,"
Galatians 1:8-9
"But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed."
2 Corinthians 6:16-18 "…16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” 17 “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.” 18 And: “I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”…"
Those who are proud of their good will try to win others to their way of thinking through great flattering words. They boast of how wicked they used to be and even boast of what they can get away with now. They do not care about obeying God, they want God to endorse their sin....a sort of "wink, wink" as though He does not care about sin.
God hates sin and sin sends people to hell. If you do not hate sin then you are not born again. Christ had to die because of our sin to pay for it, but there is a condition to salvation, that is that we confess it and desire for Christ to change us into a new creation. If you have no desire to be changed by Christ you will not be saved.
Isaiah 64:6
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Revelation 20:14-15
"Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire."
Yes, there is a hell and yes people will go there who refuse to trust in Christ.
Ephesians 2:8-9
"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Romans 10:9
"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
Revelation 21:8
"But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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