Everyone has an important part in God's plan.
I don't believe that is true....otherwise there would be no day of accounting.
When the judgment comes, Jesus will "start with the house of God".
"However, let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a wrongdoer or a busybody in other people’s matters. 16 But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but let him keep on glorifying God while bearing this name. 17 For it is the appointed time for the judgment to start with the house of God. Now if it starts first with us, what will the outcome be for those who are not obedient to the good news of God? 18 “And if the righteous man is being saved with difficulty, what will happen to the ungodly man and the sinner?” 19 So, then, let those who are suffering in harmony with the will of God keep on entrusting themselves to a faithful Creator while they are doing good." ( 1 Peter 4:15-19)
In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus is scathing in his response to those who acknowledge him as "Lord" but who fail to "do the will of the Father"....he tells them to 'get away from him because he has never recognized them'. He calls them "workers of lawlessness"...why? As Christians they would surely not be breaking the laws of the land....so it must be God's laws that they are breaking, thinking that it doesn't matter. It clearly does.
The point that I was originally trying to make was that the "thing" you call sin doesn't seperate me from God unless I think that the "thing" you call sin seperates me from God.
It doesn't matter what "we" call sin....it matters what "God" calls sin and whether we are practicing it, deliberately ignoring his laws as if Jesus blood has you covered. The willful practice of sin is what merits an adverse judgment....Jesus did not die for willful sinners. 'Once saved always saved' is not what the Bible teaches. (Matthew 24:13)
If remarriage seperates you from God then you shouldn't do it.
It is Jesus who says that unscriptural remarriage separates you from God, not me. Being obedient to the Christ means obeying all his teachings. What excuse can we offer for disobedience?
Neither remarriage or eating meat seperates me from God, such is my faith.
Faith alone is not enough....
."Faith without works is dead"....remember?
".....faith by itself, without works, is dead. 18 Nevertheless, someone will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe that there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. 20 But do you care to know, O empty man, that faith without works is useless?" (James 2:17-20)
Everyone plays an important part in God's plan, who are we to judge.
We are not the judge but we are also very good at kidding ourselves. The heart is a treacherous partner in crime when it comes to sin. (Jeremiah 17:9) The devil wants us to sin so that we will not be saved.
The Weak and the Strong
1Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters.2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.
If you understand what Paul was talking about and who he was talking to, you will see that you have completely misinterpreted his words to suit your own needs.
When Paul wrote that letter to the Romans, he was not writing a letter to all the people in Rome. He was writing to his fellow anointed Christians who lived there.......
"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." (
Romans 1:7) He urged them to be transformed and
“do not be conformed to this world.” (Romans 12:2) The “world” he wrote about included what the people in Rome thought was right and wrong.....their customs, conduct, and way of dressing. Paul said
“do not be conformed” because there were brothers and sisters who were still acting and thinking like the Romans. How were they being influenced?
The Romans had many temples and worshipped many gods, but most people did not try to have a real and close relationship with their gods. The religion of the Romans mainly required that they participate in rituals, such as at births, marriages, or funerals. These rituals were part of their daily life. It must have been very difficult for Christians in Rome to "transform" their thinking. Many of them were raised to worship false gods, so they had to make big changes to become Christians. Even after their baptism, they still had to make adjustments.
That being the case, Paul was telling his fellow Christians that in order to work in accord with their own conscience, a person had to obey it as they saw fit. One might see meat sacrificed to idols as just meat sold in a market like any other, and not worry that it was used in false worship. The god to whom it was offered, did not exist anyway. But a person with a weaker conscience might avoid that meat altogether
because of its association with false worship....neither one was wrong for exercising their own conscience in the matter....but they were not to judge each other.
That is a whole lot different to breaking a clearly stated law like marrying a unscripturally divorced person.
So IMV your interpretation of scripture in this matter is flawed.
