Hardshells Affirm That They Are Saved!

"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." (Rev. 3: 17-22)

Did you know that the Hardshells of today believe that the Laodicean church members described in these words are "regenerated" or "born again"? When I think about this fact, I am astonished.

Are "saved" people "poor" or are they "rich" (in Christ)?
Are they "blind" or do they "see"?
Are they "naked," i.e. not "clothed" (in righteousness or "white raiment"?)
Is Christ in their hearts or is he rather absent?

They thought they had "need of nothing," and the irony is that they had need of everything!

The fact that Hardshells today claim that the Laodicean Christians were really saved people is really no surprise, seeing they are quasi Universalists (see my posting Hardshell Quasi Universalism), and often affirm that such people as Baalim, Judas, and the antichrists of John's first epistle, etc., likewise are disobedient yet "regenerated" people.

It saddens me to know that they teach such things and do much harm thereby.