GeoFee -----your quote----- Do you suppose that the Samaritan who stopped to help his "neighbour" will be accepted in the household of God?
I know I am wasting my time answering this GeoFee but just maybe someone out there might be interested ---cause I know how much you hate scripture that doesn't line up with your theology of do good get to heaven ----the law
Remember GeoFee ----Jesus came under the Law -----do good get good ----do bad get bad ---the Blessing and the Curse was in place
So No- GeoFee ----not since Jesus died on the cross to bring in Grace ------many believe the good Samaritan was Jesus Himself ------Good works will not get you into Heaven or in God's good Books GeoFee -----You GeoFee are stuck under the law ---you Preach that every Sunday in your Sermons ---do good get good ----Jesus died to free us from the Law ---your still Preaching the Blessing and the Curse ----Jesus freed us from the Curse of the Law GeoFee -------you never Preach Grace always the Old Testament law ----get out and do good deeds is all you Preach and Corporate Greed ----
and while doing good deeds is a great thing --it will not get you in right standing with God -----it will not get you in Heaven
Good deeds will not make you Righteous ---but Righteous people do good deeds ------going to Church will not make you Righteous ----but Righteous people go to church ----Serving at the soup kitchen will not make you righteous ---but righteous people serve at the soup kitchen ---teaching Sunday won't make you righteous --but righteous people teach Sunday school -----helping your neighbour won't make you Righteous --but Righteous people help their neighbour ----
And notice in that Parable ---the Good Samaritan not only bandaged him --he took him to an inn and paid the innkeeper to look after him ----so there is an exchange of money for help ----no fear in giving away his silver coins -----many may bandage him but not many will part with their money to help others in fear of leaving themselves short -----but here is the thing this teaches ---you can't serve 2 masters when it comes to helping the poor --sometimes our money is needed to help God's poor ---but our needs and wants keep us in fear of giving our money to further God's Kingdom -----This Samaritan gave freely -----it doesn't say if he was rich or not ---just maybe he gave all he had at the time to help the man --Trusting that God would provide him with the coins if he needed to pay more ----
Luke 10:33-37GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
33 “But a Samaritan, as he was traveling along, came across the man. When the Samaritan saw him, he felt sorry for the man,
34 went to him, and cleaned and bandaged his wounds. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.35 The next day the Samaritan took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. He told the innkeeper, ‘
Take care of him. If you spend more than that, I’ll pay you on my return trip.’
36 “Of these three men, who do you think was a neighbor to the man who was attacked by robbers?”
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The expert said, “The one who was kind enough to help him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and imitate his example!”
Your only interested in the scripture about works and money -----
You like to dish out scripture to others GeoFee ---but you don't want others to dish out scripture to you ------you skip over the scripture you don't want to believe in or want people to know about -----you really Preach your own Gospel----just like so many other Ministers ----
Same scripture verse ---6
God has brought us back to life together with Christ Jesus and has given us a position in heaven with him.7 He did this through Christ Jesus out of his generosity to us in order to show his extremely rich kindness in the world to come.8
God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God.9 It’s not the result of anything you’ve done, so no one can brag about it
Worth repeating ----to bad you don't Preach it -----
God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God.9 It’s not the result of anything you’ve done, so no one can brag about it
No sin can enter Heaven GeoFee -----Heaven is a Holy Place until we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us we are unholy and unclean in God's eyes ---what we think doesn't matter ----it is what God say in His word that matter to God ----If the person's Name GeoFee is not in the Lambs Book of Life they are not getting into Heaven according to scripture -----Revelations 21 ----
No Sin Will Enter Heaven
Revelation 21:27ESV / https://www.openbible.info/topics/no_sin_will_enter_heaven
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false,
but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Sin is unclean GeoFee ----all who have not the Holy Spirit are Sinners in God's eyes ------it doesn't matter how we see other people you can do all the works you want and you will be still unclean in God's eyes -----
Now you can say your interpret scripture different -----etc --etc ----but that doesn't change the very plain English that doesn't need a degree to understand ---it says in plain language what it says ----this is the Greek word used in this scripture for unclean ----
unclean,
κοινὸνkoinon
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2839. koinos
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Strong's Concordance
koinos: common
Original Word:κοινός, ή, όν
Part of Speech:Adjective
Transliteration:koinos
Phonetic Spelling

koy-nos')
Short Definition:common, shared, unclean
Definition

a) common, shared, (b) Hebraistic use: profane;
dirty, unclean, unwashed.
The only way to get washed is to have sin removed and Jesus is the way by receiving Him as your Lord and Saviour ---His Shed Blood washed our sin away and we become Holy ---set apart ----and heaven bound ----Period
Wasting my time I know but there it is ----God's word ----says it all --Not to many ways to interpret that ---very plain --not rocket science --no degrees needed --very powerful statement ----but many don't believe it ----