Reply #13: I not sure about the people that responded to your post,

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but some people think of being saved as a blank check of grace to sin. I don't think of it that way, I could be wrong, but to me that seems to not be right.

I think of grace as a way to get over the problems that sin caused so that you can once again be clean and partake of the spirit of God. The forgiveness is to help us be close to God so we can learn to sin less and work on our problems, not so that we can just do whatever we want without repercussion.

There is a cult that believes sin is just shame, and if you feel no guilt then you do not sin, and in that they can burn up their conscious and do what ever they want, that seems to be the opposite of what loving thy Lord God, and loving thy neighbor is.

Much of reading the bible is interpretation, and the spirit a person has can determine how they interpret it. That is one reason some people of faith are worse then people not of faith, if they, in my opinion, do not have discernment, they can interpret things in bad ways then claim doing bad things is somehow part of what they are suppose to do. And they believe they have some supernatural cover because of their interpretations.

It is up to God in the end, so he will decide, but many Christians believe they should try to be better and not just ignore what the teachings of Jesus Christ say because they have grace, but think that the grace is a way to get them back on track to live in the teachings of love and kindness.