Salvation

[Times]

In your opinion what does it take for a person to get to Heaven?

[Knight of Christ]

It takes nothing more than excepting the gift of salvation in wich Jesus gave his life for with all of you heart mind and sole.

THis seems hard thing to do giveing over you're intire life and future to God, and i a way seeing theough the eyes of a non-belive may seem like you are youre givin youre self into slavery but to tell you the truth once on has done so they start to relise that there is more freedom both in this world and in the next than they could have ever imagend.

[elkieDannsa' Air An Drochaid]

To gain eternal life it takes none other than JESUS CHRIST - our hope for glory!

WE need to repent of going our willful ways and being our own god of life and ask God to forgive us, and believe and pray that JEsus come into our life , our heart, mind and souls and be our own personal Lord. HE IS Lord, but make HIm yours! Pray to HIm, asking HIm to be your Lord, and believing HIM that He is God in the flech and He died for our sins, rose again on the third day and is the SOn of GOd HImself. We are saved by what Jesus did on the Cross and not by our works so that none can boast of his own works. HOwever, that does not mean we jsut go our own way, but we sanctify Jesus in our hearts and commit our WIll to HIs will. To the Holy SPIrit living in us andd HIs guidance to our lives, through our lives.

Heaven is assured and we can celebrate JESUS !

But reward, may we never do it for our crown nor rewards, for reward will vary on whatr we do for CHrist with our lives, let us do it only for LOVE of JEsus Alone!! :)

BUt NONE of this is MY IDEA< it is all spelled out in the Life of JEsus Christ as recorded in the totally reliable text of the New Testament of the Holy Bible.

Please read Johns book, the book of JOhn, and prayfuully seek JEsus as yours. HE is loveable purely and turley loveable GOD!

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GOd bless.

elkie

[suzanagimpel]

To gain eternal life God has to draw you close to Him.

All the other comments I have read in this subject fail to acknowledge that.

People really don't like to hear that if God does not choses to reveal Himself to you

you will never be able to come to Him.

It has to do with predestination which nobody like to talk about eventhough it is all over

new and old testament.

so, I know that I belive that Jesus is the son of God. Therefore I am going to heaven for He has forgiven me my past future and present sins once for all.

But what I have done to get to this point?

The answer is nothing. Even the faith I have in Jesus God gave me.

So what is there else to say ?

Love Suzana

[Guest Christian Therapist]

Sometimes I think I'm living in the Twilight Zone when this topic comes up which is at least once a week because I enjoy listening to the pop-Christian television sermons of that minister from the mega-mega-church in Houston every Sunday.His sermons are entertaining enough but unless I manage to change the channel before he launches into his 15 word prayer at the end of his telecast which he claims will save you,I become completely disgusted.

Actually the Bible is just full of things that we must do to obtain salvation because our salvation is dependent on our belief that Jesus is the Son of God which means we must follow ALL of his teachings including the seemingly hardest one for many Americans to follow,"THOU SHALT NOT KILL".

What I find most astoinishing is that so many Christians totally overlook and in some cases actually dispute, Jesus' words in John3:3-9 in which He mentions two very specific requirements for salvation,the water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.In fact there is one large denomination that rejects Jesus' teaching because they claim it is a call for "works" which they claim the Apostle Paul taught us not to engage in.Hopefully they will be able to explain all of this to Jesus during the Judgement.

[David from New Bern]

Sometimes I think I'm living in the Twilight Zone when this topic comes up which is at least once a week because I enjoy listening to the pop-Christian television sermons of that minister from the mega-mega-church in Houston every Sunday.His sermons are entertaining enough but unless I manage to change the channel before he launches into his 15 word prayer at the end of his telecast which he claims will save you,I become completely disgusted.

Actually the Bible is just full of things that we must do to obtain salvation because our salvation is dependent on our belief that Jesus is the Son of God which means we must follow ALL of his teachings including the seemingly hardest one for many Americans to follow,"THOU SHALT NOT KILL".

What I find most astoinishing is that so many Christians totally overlook and in some cases actually dispute, Jesus' words in John3:3-9 in which He mentions two very specific requirements for salvation,the water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.In fact there is one large denomination that rejects Jesus' teaching because they claim it is a call for "works" which they claim the Apostle Paul taught us not to engage in.Hopefully they will be able to explain all of this to Jesus during the Judgement.

I don't follow the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" line in your post. I think we deserve further comment to understand where you are coming from on that issue. In regard t your last paragraph what would you say about the thief on the cross, did he meet the minimal requirement for salvation?

[RGR]

Sometimes I think I'm living in the Twilight Zone when this topic comes up which is at least once a week because I enjoy listening to the pop-Christian television sermons of that minister from the mega-mega-church in Houston every Sunday.His sermons are entertaining enough but unless I manage to change the channel before he launches into his 15 word prayer at the end of his telecast which he claims will save you,I become completely disgusted.

Actually the Bible is just full of things that we must do to obtain salvation because our salvation is dependent on our belief that Jesus is the Son of God which means we must follow ALL of his teachings including the seemingly hardest one for many Americans to follow,"THOU SHALT NOT KILL".

What I find most astoinishing is that so many Christians totally overlook and in some cases actually dispute, Jesus' words in John3:3-9 in which He mentions two very specific requirements for salvation,the water baptism and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.In fact there is one large denomination that rejects Jesus' teaching because they claim it is a call for "works" which they claim the Apostle Paul taught us not to engage in.Hopefully they will be able to explain all of this to Jesus during the Judgement.

Hmm, what about the thief on the cross? Did Jesus get him down and baptize him? As far as the Holy Spirit, we are given the Holy Spirit upon salvation. Pentecostals, such as myself, do believe in a separate baptism in the Spirit, but by no means is salvation dependent upon that. Furthermore, I would be careful setting myself up as a judge because in essence that is what you are doing in the portion that I bolded and highlighted. The Scripture says that it's not of works lest any man should boast, so go chew on that a while!

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[vitality22004]

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart, confess it with your mouth and you will be saved

[apothanein kerdos]

If I have to work for my salvation, or there are conditions that require me to physically do something in order to obtain salvation, then Christ's death was useless.