2006-08-16 08:47:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The death of Jesus lead to our Salvation, ready and waiting at all times for you to accept free of charge.
Following Jesus' teachings is what you do after you have whole heartedly accepted his free gift of Salvation.
They are both very important and you cannot have one without the other.
2006-08-16 08:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Following Jesus is very important and perhaps most important. that is as a rolemodel but Jesus is perfect since He is both God and man. That's why we humans need forgiveness. True: God could have saved us in any other way but he chose to die for us to show us His almost insane love for us. So I'll say trusting in His love and Mercy is more important. That doesn't mean you can do sinful things and yet think you'll be saved.
2006-08-16 09:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by carl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ultimate example he made was the sacrifice of his own life to save yours. He took the punishment for the sins we committ so that we don't have to. Jesus was without blemish (sin) and paid the ultimate price so that if we accept him and ask forgiveness of our sins, we can join him when our time comes to leave this earth. I don't believe that there is anyone capable of truly following in his footsteps.
2006-08-16 09:00:06 · answer #3 · answered by karen W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death of Jesus is very important. The sacrifice He made for everyone is very important, but it would be null and void without the resurrection.
2006-08-16 09:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by cinderella9202003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that following his example is what saves you, then you are assuming that your own efforts or your own personal holiness saved you, not Jesus' effort or His holiness. You are glorifying yourself instead of God, which the Bible forbids.
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Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Romans 3:21-28(NIV)
But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished — he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of observing the law? No, but on that of faith. For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.
2006-08-16 09:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's religion. What does making sense have to do with it?
2006-08-16 08:53:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋