1. God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life.
"God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" John 3:16.
Why is it that people are not experiencing the abundant life?
2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God's love and plan for his life.
Man Is Sinful
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23.
3. Jesus Christ is God's ONLY provision for man's sin. Through Him you can know and experience God's love and plan for your life.
"God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" Romans 5:8.
4. We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan for our lives.
"As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name" John 1:12
2007-05-30 08:19:44 · 16 answers · asked by Theophilus 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
5. Don't follow silly lists.
Sorry, but God is just a superstition. These "laws" are really just attempts by the religious to control other religious people. They are mostly appeals to emotion meant to gain and maintain converts.
They really have no basis in reality.
2007-05-30 08:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Dear Theo,
I answered this question of yours before.... I am sorry to tell you that you are following a false gospel (Galatians 1). Christ did NOT pay for everyone's sins. If He did, there would be no person in hell. Unbelief is a sin just like stealing. One CANNOT ACCEPT Jesus to be one's Savior. Jesus said that one must be born from above (born-again). You did not choose when you were going to be born. Neither did you choose your hair color or eye color or height or weight. You CANNOT CHOOSE!
If you read Ephesians 1:3-5 you will see that God makes the "choice" of who is saved and who is not. There are many other Scriptures that show this also. If you read 2 Corinthians 11, you will find that you are following "another jesus" and not the Jesus of the Bible.
Please Google the sources I leave you. You can read it right off the internet for free. I am trying to help you see the true Gospel.
2007-05-30 08:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity isn't pithy. It doesn't lend itself to easy slogans.
It's simple but not simplistic and doesn't fit in a "Four Spiritual Laws" book.
It is still unmerited. It is still unearned. It is offered freely by Our Lord even though there is nothing we can ever do to deserve it or earn it.
It still requires obedience. Whether you "believe" it does or not. Can 'faith alone' be a reasonable response to our Lord? Must we not even love Him? Why then, isn't faith the greatest of all spiritual virtues? (1 Corinthians 13: 13 says the greatest virtue is love.) First let's look at the words of Our Lord Himself in the gospels.
Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Matthew 19:16-17 Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?"He answered him, "Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life,
keep the commandments."
John 14:21 Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
Yes. Jesus also said in John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life." but we can't pick and choose which parts of Jesus words we are going to believe. Jesus spoke the Truth not contradiction and that means (according to his words) both believing AND doing are necessary. If believing is all that is necessary to accept God's gift of Salvation why are the examples of faith that are held up to us in the New Testament always really examples of faithful obedience and not 'faith alone'? In Hebrews chapter 11 some of the great examples of Old Testament faith are enumerated. Go read the chapter; I'll wait. There sure are an awful lot of 'saved by faith's BECAUSE they did something's in there. Can you split apart the faith and obedience in those examples? Does God? Were they REALLY saved by "faith alone"? Those who claim that faith alone is what saves you must ignore the rest of what is recorded in Sacred Scripture.
By Believing in Christ (Jn 3:16; Acts 16:31)
By Repentance (Acts 2:38; 2 Pet 3:9)
By Baptism (John 3:5; Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Pet 3:21; Titus 3:5; Mark 16:16)
By the work of the Spirit (John 3:5; 2 Cor 3:6)
By declaring with our mouths (Luke 12:8; Rom 10:9)
By coming to a knowledge of the Truth (1 Tim 2:4; Heb 10:26)
By Works (Rom 2:6, 7; James 2:21, 24-25)
By Grace (Acts 15:11; Eph 2:8)
By His blood (Rom 5:9; Heb 9:22)
By His righteousness (Rom 5:17; 2 Pet 1:1)
By His cross (Eph 2:16; Col 2:14)
There is only one place in Sacred Scripture where the term "Faith alone" occurs and that is in James 2:24 "See how a person is justified by works and NOT faith alone."
2007-05-31 06:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by Sister Spitfire 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My huge problem with this is that it appeals to a person's want of a better life, which would more or less just create false converts. They would go to church, see people sitting on a bed of thorns, not to mention that the slightest bit of persecution would send them away from the church for good.
Now, if you use God's Law, and talk about sin Hell, judgment, repentance,, and show the person their own sin, and their personal need for the savior on judgment day so they won't be found guilty of breaking God's Law and going to Hell.
Find out more at http://www.wayofthemaster.com
2007-05-30 08:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by Jason M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tell someone about God's wonderful plan for their life when they're dying of Ebola or have had their legs blasted off by an IED while trying to buy some food at the market.
Grow up and get out of fantasy land.
2007-05-30 08:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
W O W ---
You are a Spiritual MORON, dude...
the 4 Spiritual laws, for whom?
brain-washed / brain-dead christians? muslims?
catholics? jews?
W O W ---
You are a Spiritual MORON, dude...
Here's the Solution for religion and to become a True Spiritual being, eliminating religion from YourLife:
Create a Private, Personal, Direct, Divine Relationship with Our Creator and save your Soul from religion's and atheist's beliefs.
<<<<<<<<<<<< LOVE >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
"religion is Spiritual fraud"; "religion is the Worse invention of humanity" - Jesus Christ, Buddha and any one else with Spiritual intelligence.
atheists = all the people in religion = all the ignorant fundamentalists = all the cults/superstitions = paganism = wicca
2007-05-30 08:25:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The same answer as the last 3 times you posted this
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApqLSMVR8Jz7xYvglCDarBXsy6IX?qid=20070530080100AAXZetG
2007-05-30 08:33:38 · answer #7 · answered by Herodotus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amen. You got that sermonette slipped in as neat as a pin. Congratulations!
2007-05-30 08:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes... and so what's your question about this? It's the process without the caring face discussing it.
2007-05-30 08:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have any capacity for creativity or independant thought whatsoever? How many times have you posted this now?
2007-05-30 08:24:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋