Is your salvation biblical...

[David1701]

5 hours ago, Arrabon said:

...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

There is only one way of salvation.  The Lord Jesus is that Way. 

God saves us, by his grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.  Being born again is an absolutely essential part of this, by which God gives us a new, soft heart/spirit, from which flow repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.  God gives us the Holy Spirit to indwell and from these changes flow good works.

You know if God has saved you.  It's like the spiritual equivalent of being hit by a ten-ton truck - it changes you...  The sorrow for your sin (and hatred of it), overwhelming love for the Lord and desire to please him, the witness of the Holy Spirit in your heart, the peace that you never knew before, the desire to see God glorified and his will done, the love for brothers and sisters in Christ and the desire to see them pleasing the Lord, the joy of the Lord, rejoicing in who he is and what he does, the love for God's word, the desire to see others saved and to spread the gospel and so much more.  I had none of this, before God saved me, and all of it afterwards.  I'm sure that others will testify of the same.

[Arrabon]

4 hours ago, Walter Goraj jr said:

Hi Arrabon.  I'm wondering after your 43 year journey what you make of God's wonderful plan of predestination?

@Walter Goraj jr

Boy, is this a great question, but we'd be going way off-topic, and I want to stay here on-topic.

Maybe ask me that another time, as your asking me to open a can of worms and a Pandora's box, all at the same time. 

[Arrabon]

39 minutes ago, David1701 said:

There is only one way of salvation.  The Lord Jesus is that Way. 

@David1701

OK !!

Which way specifically is that?

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Do I pray the sinners prayer"

Am I saved by believing?

Am I saved by faith.

Am I saved by being baptized in the spirit?

Am I saved by inviting Jesus into my heart?

Am I saved by water immersion baptism?

Am I saved when I ask Jesus to save me?

Am I saved when I call on the name of the Lord?

Am I saved when I ask God for forgiveness?

Am I  saved by repentance?

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Remember you only get one choice because God says in Ephesians 4:5, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

So which is your choice, or do you have yet another "ONE" to choose from?

Edited July 21, 2021 by Arrabon

[Arrabon]

10 minutes ago, Arrabon said:

4 hours ago @Alive said

"there is no such thing as unbiblical salvation."

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Great!! So all of these different ways of conversion listed below are acceptable to you for salvation,

even thought in Ephesians 4:5, it says, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

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Do I pray the sinners prayer to be saved?"

Am I saved by believing?

Am I saved by faith.

Am I saved by being baptized in the spirit?

Am I saved by inviting Jesus into my heart?

Am I saved by water immersion baptism?

Am I saved when I ask Jesus to save me?

Am I saved when I call on the name of the Lord?

Am I saved when I ask God for forgiveness?

Am I  saved by repentance?

OSAS?

 

 

4 hours ago, Alive said:

 

[Waggles]

6 hours ago, Arrabon said:

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

Well that is an easy to answer question for Jesus himself gives us all a clear manifest by which to measure our faith and doctrine against.

Mark 16:14  And afterward he was manifested to the eleven themselves as they sat at meat; and he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that had seen him risen from the dead. 
16:15  And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. 
16:16  Who hath believed and is baptized shall be saved; but who hath disbelieved shall be condemned. 
16:17  And these signs shall follow them that have believed: in my name shall they cast out demons, speak with tongues; 
16:18  and in their hands they shall take up serpents, and if they drink aught deadly, it shall in now wise hurt them; 
they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. 
16:19  So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 
16:20  And THEY went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. 

So just measure yourself against the word of God and submit and obey. 

[Arrabon]

So, are we all Christian believers, determined by a "GENERALIZED", sort of idea of conversion, rather than  by something narrow and specific?

[David1701]

13 hours ago, Arrabon said:

@David1701

OK !!

Which way specifically is that?

----------------------------

Do I pray the sinners prayer"

Am I saved by believing?

Am I saved by faith.

Am I saved by being baptized in the spirit?

Am I saved by inviting Jesus into my heart?

Am I saved by water immersion baptism?

Am I saved when I ask Jesus to save me?

Am I saved when I call on the name of the Lord?

Am I saved when I ask God for forgiveness?

Am I  saved by repentance?

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Remember you only get one choice because God says in Ephesians 4:5, "One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

So which is your choice, or do you have yet another "ONE" to choose from?

I am saved by God's grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.

Eph. 2:8-10 (MEV)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, 9 not of works, so that no one should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them.

Edited July 21, 2021 by David1701

[Arrabon]

26 minutes ago, David1701 said:

I am saved by God's grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.

Eph. 2:8-10 (MEV)

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, 9 not of works, so that no one should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we should walk in them.

@David1701

Thanks so much for your response .

Much appreciated !!! 

[David1701]

1 minute ago, Arrabon said:

@David1701

Thanks so much for your response .

Much appreciated !!! 

You're welcome. 

[Riverwalker]

12 hours ago, Arrabon said:

So, are we all Christian believers, determined by a "GENERALIZED", sort of idea of conversion, rather than  by something narrow and specific?

As is usually the case with the things of God it is sublimely simple and incredibly complex

Simple: We are saved by Grace through Faith

Complex: The definition of Faith.

It takes but a minute to enter into the salvation of the Lord, but it takes a lifetime to realize it.  A life full of grace and repentance , joy and tears, confidence and fears.

When we come to Jesus the foundation is laid immediately. But we still  have to build the house.

So getting saved, is a simple as can be. Being saved, is a bit more complex