Frank, I am having a problem with the problem you are having with Mike W.

 

To wit, will someone be raptured if he is committing adultery?  Your answer is, “No.”

 

Well, the Bible says that if you’ve committed one sin, you have committed them all.  So, adultery is not the ONLY unpardonable sin that will cause a blood-bought, born-again Christian to be left behind at the Rapture, as it is on equal par with every other sin.  Carrying your logic further, if someone thinks an evil thought, thinks of someone else with lust in their heart, goes to bed with anger unresolved, is in the act of shoplifting, drunk on alcohol because they are hopelessly addicted, overweight because they have an eating disorder (“gluttony”), covets their neighbor’s new Ferrari, and is not in the act of loving the Lord God with all their heart, soul, mind and strength, etc, etc., they are guilty, guilty, guilty, and do not qualify for the Lord’s gift of salvation.   The list is long.

 

Did Jesus die to save us ONLY from our sins up until the time the trumpet blows and He shouts, “Come up here!”?  If we are living in adultery, for how long, Frank?  The past hour?  The past month?  year?  Where are you drawing this line?  If a man looks on a woman with lust in his heart, he has committed adultery already.  So, if a man is looking at a pretty woman when the trumpet blows, “Sorry, Charlie, you’re OUT.”

 

Are you so PERFECT that you are CERTAIN you are QUALIFIED to enter heaven, based on your own standard of GOODNESS?  Are you judging others who do not meet up to YOUR STANDARDS?

 

As you judge, you will be judged.  “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”  (Romans 8:1)  I don’t see a “qualification” there.

 

We have no right to judge another person’s heart, only God can do that.  Who are we to judge God’s servant?

 

Don’t “go there”, Frank.

 

Diane G.