can i buy my salvation is there scripture in the bible that says i cannot?

Question

can i buy my salvation or is there a scripture in the bible that says i cant because the price is too high old testement please

Answer 1

So let me understand this you take instructions for life from a book.........wow

Answer 2

You can but salvation, forgiveness from all sins, and a pass into heaven, pay for it this day, and when you croak - zip--- you are inside the pearly gates.

All you have to do is to call a TV Evangelist when he shows his 800 number on the screen, as to be prayed for, ask how to be saved, they will do it slam bam on the spot - especially if you have been christened or baptized before, even as a child.

You see, Evangelist are in it for the money, you tell them what you want, they accommodate you as much as possible, and you pay them.

All of them are using the term "plant the seed," "send me money" and watch your personal financial situation get better and better

The difference between me, an ordained minister, and the TV evangelists is that they want more money. I have a half price sale on Salvation going on right now. Actually, it is a two for the price of one sale also. For only $49.99, you and a good friend, wife, significant other, or whatever, can both get saved.

Answer 3

Is this a homework type of question or do you really want to know if you can buy your salvation??? How is it possible to 'buy' salvation? If it was possible then all rich people would be saved and the poor would not. If you believe that God will save people then you must assume that he will save the righteous - rich or poor. It's like buying love - you just can't. You can buy physical favours, or someone's time, but you can't make them love you by giving them money. Salvation must be the same.

Answer 4

Well, you can't buy it by just working hard atleast..
the one verse of the bible that I just remember for some odd reason says stuff about that..
Ephesians 2: 8-9 I think it goes: 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..

so.. I would say that the 'work' part can have monetary value associated with it and/or it's just regular work.. either way, I guess you can't buy or just be insanely nice to people or something..I think it just means to have faith and that's how to be able to have salvation.
...but I'm actually not religious, so I could just be completely wrong.. try the buying. I hear on ebay salvations going for about 65 bucks. heh. just playing. ^_^

Answer 5

Sorry salvation is not for sale. It's a gift given freely to all who wish it and repent of their sins and proclaim that CHrist is Lord.

As for a scripture, hmm, being Catholic I am not one who has chapter and verse at hand but I disticntly recall one where a rich kid wanted to buy his way in and he was told it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven.

Answer 6

Isaiah 52:3; Isaiah 43:3,4; Isaiah 42:1-9; Isaiah 49:1-7;
Isaiah 53; John 1:1-5, 10-17; Genesis 1:1-3,26
Don't believe religion or denominations. God's word has proved itself true by fulfilling what it has said. No other person or book can even begin to compare in accuracy.
God doesn't lie; men (mankind) do!
Search and you will find.

Answer 7

Your talking about indulgences right? Well Martin Luther took issue with that and consequently the Reformation occurred.

The practice of the clergy accepting money for the expiation of the sins of the dead appears in 2 Maccabees (ca. 100 BCE). This practice, seen nowhere else in the Bible, derived from Pharisaic Judaism. The author praises the practice of donating money to the temple as a way of improving the standing of dead sinners on Judgment Day.

In general, certain acts result in gaining favor with God, called merit. (Catechism, 2008) These acts do not gain the individual forgiveness for their sin; forgiveness results from God’s grace, freely given through Jesus, which cannot be earned. After the sins are forgiven, the individual's meritorious acts remove the penalty due for sin.

The nature of an “act of merit” is difficult to nail down. While the merits of the faithful are important in remitting the temporal punishment owed to God for that individual’s sins, they also play a role in remitting temporal punishment for other’s sins (Catechism 1477). Merit is “stored” as it were, in the “treasury of the Church” (Catechism 1476).

However, the Church’s treasury is not a storehouse of "extra" merit, in which the good deeds of the faithful are collected and accounted by individual; while the “extra” merit of the faithful is in the treasury, it is first and foremost the infinite value of Christ’s merits before God (Catechism 1476).

The Church recognizes three forms of merit:

* The infinite merit of Jesus;
* The merit of the Blessed Virgin Mary; and
* The treasury of merit in the Communion of Saints.

He is the source of infinite merit which can never be exhausted. Jesus's merit in and of itself is sufficient to remit all temporal punishment due for sin for every individual. In addition, the merit of the Virgin Mary and other saints exists in the treasury of the Church.

Under the Latin Catholic concept of merit, the infinite merit of Jesus, and the merits of the various saints above and beyond what was needed to satisfy God and get them into Heaven has been granted by the Church, which can apply this surplus merit — sometimes called works of supererogation — against the deficits in merit suffered by penitent but believing sinners.

Answer 8

No you can't buy salvation but when you except Jesus then you get Salvation. And yes the Bible says "By Grace you have been saved through faith it is not of YOURSELVES lest any man should bost"

Answer 9

Well looks like your going to hell since you believe you have to live by what a book tells you to. Oh no wait, you will actually not go to hell, nor heaven, nor anywhere but a coffin in the ground when you die. You will decompose back into the earth where you came from and you will be recycled into comething new eventually, most likely plant fertiliser, or just food for carnivirous insects.

Answer 10

You're in luck. I'm running a salvation special today. Send me $3000.00 and I'll send you a voucher redeemable at the Salvation Army.

Answer 11

No, you can not buy salvation. It's a free gift. John 3:16.