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Bob goes to church, keeps a Bible on his coffee table, and thinks that he is a Christian.
He has accepted Jesus Christ into his heart, but has never obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ; and when real Christians preach to him the way of salvation in Jesus Christ, he calls them "works based salvation heretics".
That's what his pastor told him to say.
Bob is married to a divorced woman, whose husband is still alive, so he is living in open adultery with another man's wife.
He has lots of health problems, and has a medicine chest full of drugs that he takes for them every day, so he is partaking in sorcery.
Oh, yes, he has heard that God can heal him, but he doesn't really BELIEVE that. After all, the Bible isn't to be taken LITERALLY, he says...
Bob has never actually read the whole Bible for himself, but he doesn't think that he has to, because his pastor went to seminary.
So, he just believes whatever his pastor says.
Bob works at a job where he has to lie to people every day to make a living. But he thinks that he is "under grace" so it's ok and God will understand.
On the Lord's day, the first day of the week, Bob has the day off from work; and he spends more time watching sports on TV than reading or hearing God's word.
But that's ok, he thinks, because his pastor preaches "once saved, always saved"...so he is good to go, and doesn't actually have to DO anything that Jesus commanded us to do.
After all, if we DO anything to be saved, then we are "adding to the finished work of Christ on the cross".
At least that's what Bob's pastor says...
Bob doesn't know that his 9 year old son is a drug addict and is thinking about suicide, or that his 14 year old daughter was pregnant last month but got an abortion, and murdered his grandson. He is just happy when his children leave him alone so he can watch the game on TV without being distracted. He even knows the names of all the players on his favorite team by heart.
But he couldn't tell you the names of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ.
When dinner is served at Bob's house, no prayer of thanks is made, and everyone at the table is looking at their phones while they eat, and nobody talks to one another, or even looks at one another.
After dinner, Bob goes to the living room to watch TV, his wife stays in the kitchen so she can chat on Facebook with her gossipy "Facebook friends", and his children go to their rooms to surf the internet, unsupervised.
Bob Smith is a typical American fake Christian; and although his friends and colleagues, who are fake Christians, too, might be fooled by his weak charade, Jesus Christ is not; and Bob is headed for the eternal torment of hellfire, from whence there is no escape, ever.
Are you Bob?
He has accepted Jesus Christ into his heart, but has never obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ; and when real Christians preach to him the way of salvation in Jesus Christ, he calls them "works based salvation heretics".
That's what his pastor told him to say.
Bob is married to a divorced woman, whose husband is still alive, so he is living in open adultery with another man's wife.
He has lots of health problems, and has a medicine chest full of drugs that he takes for them every day, so he is partaking in sorcery.
Oh, yes, he has heard that God can heal him, but he doesn't really BELIEVE that. After all, the Bible isn't to be taken LITERALLY, he says...
Bob has never actually read the whole Bible for himself, but he doesn't think that he has to, because his pastor went to seminary.
So, he just believes whatever his pastor says.
Bob works at a job where he has to lie to people every day to make a living. But he thinks that he is "under grace" so it's ok and God will understand.
On the Lord's day, the first day of the week, Bob has the day off from work; and he spends more time watching sports on TV than reading or hearing God's word.
But that's ok, he thinks, because his pastor preaches "once saved, always saved"...so he is good to go, and doesn't actually have to DO anything that Jesus commanded us to do.
After all, if we DO anything to be saved, then we are "adding to the finished work of Christ on the cross".
At least that's what Bob's pastor says...
Bob doesn't know that his 9 year old son is a drug addict and is thinking about suicide, or that his 14 year old daughter was pregnant last month but got an abortion, and murdered his grandson. He is just happy when his children leave him alone so he can watch the game on TV without being distracted. He even knows the names of all the players on his favorite team by heart.
But he couldn't tell you the names of the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ.
When dinner is served at Bob's house, no prayer of thanks is made, and everyone at the table is looking at their phones while they eat, and nobody talks to one another, or even looks at one another.
After dinner, Bob goes to the living room to watch TV, his wife stays in the kitchen so she can chat on Facebook with her gossipy "Facebook friends", and his children go to their rooms to surf the internet, unsupervised.
Bob Smith is a typical American fake Christian; and although his friends and colleagues, who are fake Christians, too, might be fooled by his weak charade, Jesus Christ is not; and Bob is headed for the eternal torment of hellfire, from whence there is no escape, ever.
Are you Bob?
