I wonder how many of those who believed Camping's
teachings repented from their sins toward a God of love, and how many hedged their bets, kowtowing in fear to a vengeful deity?
Not exact matches
Thus Jesus His disciples sent: Go
teach ye every nation, That lost in sin they must
repent; And flee
from condemnation: He that believes and is baptized, Obtains a mighty blessing; A new - born man, no more he dies, Eternal life possessing, A joyful heir of Heaven.
So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to
teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion
from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we
repent and straighten up.
Steps to becoming a Christian means that you must first be
taught what sin is, so that you have knowledge of sin, so that you can
repent from sin, so that you can have a savior of your sin.