My Personal Experience on People Who Are So Wicked But Think They're So Righteous

The great Reformed Baptist preacher Charles H. Spurgeon said, "The proof of man's being unsaved is not only evident in self-righteousness but a wicked lifestyle." What is disturbing is that many people think they are "good" even if they love to live a life of sin. Many religious but lost people are faithful to their religion but are also degenerate in their lifestyles at the same time. When people are truly saved, they are delivered from their sinful lifestyles by the grace of God so nobody can boast." How true. Whenever I read Romans 10:2 in the Bible with Paul mourning how many of his fellow Jews are trying to establish their own righteousness while being ignorant of God's righteousness, I don't really find it surprising that there are many people who are self-righteous, religious and degenerate at the same time.

My observation happened with many religious Roman Catholics. As a former Roman Catholic, I have observed many of my folks and former parishioners were really religious, thought they were good people while they are very degenerate in their lifestyles at the same time. Many of them were faithful in their idolatry while being loose in their moral standards at the same time. Many of them accuse genuine born again Christians of teaching a license to sin by teaching once saved always saved. The truth of once saved always saved for a born again Christian believer is that when God starts a good work in the believer the evidence of being once saved always saved is in one's changed lifestyle. What were you saved from? Not just from God's wrath but also from your sinfulness. Matthew 1:21 declares that Jesus came to save people from their sins and not in their sins. Those who claim to be once saved always saved but are not really once saved will persevere or once saved will endure are not once saved always saved. Matthew 7:23 also condemns such people as workers of lawlessness as evidence that they were never saved.

Some Roman Catholic apologists (but all) display their own sinful behavior like some of them are gamblers, some of them are narcotic users, some of them love to break simple guidelines wherever they go, some of them are womanizers, some of them are adulterous homewreckers, some of them swear and cuss a lot (while condemning others for doing the same), some of them love to irritate people with their offensive behavior all in the name of Christ and they just show how mean-spirited and sinful they are. All the while they hypocritically condemn born again Christians for supposedly teaching a license to sin. Born again Christians take this stand to be saved by faith alone but not by a faith that is alone. No true born again Christian would ever think that any "Christian" who says that grace is a license to sin directly or indirectly or that being saved may necessarily mean one becomes barren for the rest of one's life is ever a true born again Christian. What's worse is that many of them think you can lose your salvation every time you sin while living a degenerate lifestyle one way or another. They're condemning themselves with that they believe and do.

They have this attitude that they're willing to forgive the million sins of their own but they're willing to condemn the born again Christian for one error. A Christian falls into error the person is ridiculed but a person who's been habitually sinful is still forgiven for a million sins. A Christian pastor apologizes for one's sin and they still ridicule him. The priest commits a million sins and they all help cover it up. While Christians are willing to help the Christian who's fallen stand up the rest of the sinful but thinks they're so righteous crowd would continue to condemn the Christian. Now who's really teaching a license to sin? Why are they so willing to still keep having fellowship with habitual sinners who are religious but continue to condemn the shortcomings of Christians? It's because Christians don't belong to this world (John 15:18-19, James 4:4) that's why that double standard exists. 

Worse, they have that "judge me not" attitude or "Only God can judge me." But I feel like every time they tell anyone that, it means, "Don't judge me so I can sin in peace!" The more I remember the doctrines of the Roman Catholic system with the sacrament of confession, it has become a license to sin. You couldn't say the Act of Contrition on your own as you had to memorize it. Then it's time to pray X Our Fathers and X Hail Marys. Then the cycle repeats itself with sinning, going to confession, receiving communion and sinning all over again. While the Roman Catholic doctrine may not directly teach a license to sin but the confessional's dead repetition of prayers, attending Mass, doing penance and the like are really promoting a license to sin in some way. Some Roman Catholics may deny it but former Roman Catholics turned born again Christians may admit it.