Or both? Or neither?
2007-03-24 10:43:03 · 8 answers · asked by ccrider 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-24 10:47:25 · answer #1 · answered by ♥JESUS IS MY SAVIOR ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvation is God's free gift.
Accepting that gift is man's response and is called faith.
With faith, one expects that God will continue to be gracious and blessing even when things seem bleak... this is hope.
That hope will then help one to be generous and give... that is, to love.
With love, sins are forgiven....
So, God's love, which is a free gift from Him, invites us to accept this love and to live it out until we become instruments of love.
United with Jesus Christ we then become a part of God's mission to reconcile the world to Himself.
Salvation... heaven... blessedness, would be a relational thing... which God starts and we are called to reciprocate.
2007-03-24 17:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salvation is God's response to us, or better said God's way of keeping His promise...Somewhere over the rainbow...
2007-03-24 17:47:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scripture says, many are called but few are chosen. It is God's will that none are lost, but with the gift of Free-Will, we must accept God's gift...or reject it.
After we accept to serve God, repent of our sins, God would meet us as the returning Prodigal Son. Its a two way street. Anyone who rejects God and goes to Hell, does so by their own actions to remain apart from God. God sends no one to Hell. We send ourselves.
2007-03-24 21:14:56 · answer #4 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus shed His blood for sin.
He was buried and rose to show death couldn't hold Him (no sin in Him).
He offers sin forgiveness and salvation:
Romans (10)
Now we have the freewill choice of accepting His free gift of salvation or we can use our freewill to continue to sin and rebel.
Luke 16:19-31
Rev 18-22
Matt 24-25
Jude
Job 19
2007-03-24 17:51:33 · answer #5 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Salvation from what?
Ok Ok I get it, from the fairy tales that tell you were born as a sinner.
psst psst, you're a free human being since the day you were born. Do not let any one tell you the contrary, go and reach your full potential.
2007-03-24 17:48:46 · answer #6 · answered by Wadi 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
it is His free gift to us... God doesn't need us, we need Him...
2007-03-24 17:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by aa.gabriel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to us...
2007-03-24 17:47:57 · answer #8 · answered by ilshdw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋