Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Whatever Happened to Heaven?" by Dave Hunt

Numerous scriptures make it clear that those who have believed on Christ and received Him as their Savior and Lord have been completely and forever purged of the guilt and eternal consequences of sin—a purging, moreover, that could never be accomplished even in part by us, but only by Christ alone. Many scriptures attest to the sufficiency of this cleansing, such as the following: "The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John:1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
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See All...). Yet in heretical rejection of such inspired assurance and the repeated reminder that Christ has "washed us from our sins in his own blood: (Revelation:1:5And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
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