Is your salvation biblical...

[Arrabon]

...or a man-made doctrine that came by changing God's word to suit those who want an easy way to salvation?

I ask this question honestly, because for about the first year after receiving Christ into my life, and spending a lot of time in God's word, I started hearing things, and noticing things in the church I was attending, that didn't seem to be in unity with God's word.

I started wondering if I was in the right church, did I believe the right things, and did I really become a Christian?

Looking back, they were good questions to ask myself. 

I decided to stay, but I also decided to stay in God's word the most I could, and pray that God would reveal the answers to me.

43 years later, here I am, 78 years old, and those questions have been answered, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, in Gods word, and through studying many related topics, including having a whole library of study helps that God led me to, through the Holy Spirit.

There are so many different idea's about what is true salvation, and their continues to be more and more, that I wanted the one true salvation that God speaks of in Ephesians 4:5, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - "ONE", meaning to the exclusion of all others. The meaning of the word "one" in context. It's an "emphatic word" that shows God's "narrowmindedness" about "HIS SALVATION," presented to man in scripture.

I have spent untold hours of study, many thousands, and uncounted large amounts of money, and given up the pleasures of some things I could have enjoyed, to afford those tools of study that would be used by the Holy Spirit, to give me the truths that I sought after.

God in His word says that their is a cost to pay for our salvation in several ways, but in $$$ I found the cost to be already taken care of, because God knew my heart, and more than abundantly supplied all my needs like he does for all my other needs.

Now, finally, after all those years, I am at peace with the answers He has supplied, and the ministry he has given me to share His truth.

Are you at peace, and sure of your salvation? 

Have you and God, proven to yourself that what you believe is His truth, or are you still searching and praying like I was, and still am today as I continue my search for deeper and more complete and expanded revelations of what I already know? The "MEAT of His word now.  I will continue studying until my last breadth.

How about you?

Are you satisfied with where you are in your faith, or maybe your still searching? Searching is GREAT !!!

 

From the heart of a "Christian Dinosaur !

My name is Arrabon

Edited July 20, 2021 by Arrabon

[Hopefully]

29 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

Are you at peace, and sure of your salvation? 

Yes

29 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

Have you and God, proven to yourself that what you believe is His truth, or are you still searching and praying

God has proven that I believe his truth.

30 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

Are you satisfied with where you are in your faith, or maybe your still searching?

Still studying and searching through  the word of God.

[Arrabon]

7 minutes ago, Hopefully said:

Still studying and searching through  the word of God.

@Hopefully

Good for you.

Me too !!!

There is always more to learn, and I find that exciting, and it inspires me to "stay the coarse."

[Riverwalker]

1 hour ago, Arrabon said:

started wondering if I was in the right church, did I believe the right things, and did I really become a Christian?

Salvation really isn't about church, religion, what people say.  Its about you and God. 

Are you good with God? 

Have you submitted yourself humbly to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and His word

Is the Holy Spirit your constant companion

Do you run everything in your life through the filter "Is this God wants me to do"

Whether you are saved 1 year , 38 years (like me) or 43 (like you) If you can answer yes to the above, all is good

[Alive]

There is only One Salvation and that is Christ. You may discuss issues related to things like sin and sanctification post being born from above, but there is one biblical salvation. One is either born from above or not.

The OP invites a rabbit hole that is based on a wrong starting point.

In other words--there is no such thing as unbiblical salvation.

Folks---it doesn't get any more basic than this. There is nothing more basic than the Gospel. We are placed into Christ by the will of the Father BY Grace and through Faith---which faith is a Gift of God concurrent with or shortly following regeneration.

This is the Gospel that we embrace.

[Arrabon]

19 hours ago, Riverwalker said:

Salvation really isn't about church, religion, what people say.  Its about you and God. 

Are you good with God? 

Have you submitted yourself humbly to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and His word

Is the Holy Spirit your constant companion

Do you run everything in your life through the filter "Is this God wants me to do"

Whether you are saved 1 year , 38 years (like me) or 43 (like you) If you can answer yes to the above, all is good

@Riverwalker my dear friend and brother.

On another Christian forum, I am a Moderator there, and I have been trying to explain to this person the concept of "Plurality" of God's word, to form the completeness of His message to us all.

Christianity, to me, is not always about one thing or the other, it's more about the completeness of Gods word, and the completeness of all parts of our faith including church, religion, and what people say, and how we bring them into unity and harmony to not only form our faith, but how we form relationships that allow us to be encouraging to everyone in our lives.

Edited July 21, 2021 by Arrabon

[Riverwalker]

3 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

@Riverwalker my dear friend and brother.

On another Christian forum, I am a Moderator there, and I have been trying to explain to this person the concept of "Plurality" of God's word, to form the completeness of His message to us all.

Christianity, to me, is not about one thing or the other, it's more about the completeness of Gods word, and the completeness of all parts of our faith including church, religion, and what people say, and how we bring them into unity and harmony to not only form our faith, but how we form relationships that allow us to be encouraging to everyone in our lives.

And yet it all breaks down to one thing. Relationships

 

[Arrabon]

Just now, Riverwalker said:

And yet it all breaks down to one thing. Relationships

 

@Riverwalker

ABSOLUTELY !!! 

[Alive]

6 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

explain to this person the concept of "Plurality" of God's word

What does this mean? What is the plurality of God's word?

[TheBlade]

"or a man-made doctrine that came by changing God's word to suit those who want an easy way to salvation?"

Maybe break down what you mean here? I don't know about "easy way". My first thoughts were along the line of "There is only One Salvation and that is Christ". I think it is easy.. John 3:16 Rom 10 9-10 and since He is the one that pulled at our heart He is the one that found us and its Him that will finish what He started in us. I look at like .. there is only one way one truth one life. So I dont know what you mean by easy salvation.  There are some great men women of God that stayed in His word every moment praise GOD!