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
2007-05-31 05:19:13 · 9 answers · asked by Theophilus 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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 06:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by Sister Spitfire 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have posted this exact same thing 13 times! What is it you think you are accomplishing by doing this? What is your point? I really don't understand it. You know, religion can be a wonderful and comforting thing for some people, but you have turned it into an obsession. You should seek professional help. Update: I've just looked at your profile and the questions you have asked and I see that you never pick a best answer to any of your "questions." You are not asking questions; you are preaching. Why don't you go to seminary and become a preacher? You will not affect any change this way. You are wasting your time.
2007-05-31 12:51:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I experience a rich and fulfilling life without infection by dogmatic crap like the filth you spew.
I ask you how can you be so shallow as to claim peddling this crap on the internet is giving you an abundant life, abundancy indicates plenty but you seem very sinlgeminded
diversity. dynamicity. openness. & pot
try them all Dude.
2007-05-31 12:31:54 · answer #3 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I was not aware that these four statements were classified as "four spiritual laws." I always thought "laws" referred to the ten commandments. Is this list original with you, or is it part of a specific protestant denomination? Does not sound Catholic, but I suppose it could be.
2007-05-31 12:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bye! I wonder if you even bother to read the responses you get to this spam.
People react better when you talk WITH them. Not AT them. In fact, how did Jesus deliver his message? He came into their lives, fulfilled their needs and talked with them. He didn't shout his message and run for the city gates.
2007-05-31 12:20:59 · answer #5 · answered by Cindy Lou Who --P3D-- 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's more of a tract. I can only come up with three.
1. Love
2. Grace
3. Karma
2007-05-31 12:29:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares
2007-05-31 12:21:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i follow others law's
2007-05-31 12:22:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those are not really laws.
But thanks for posting them every freaking four hours!
2007-05-31 12:23:03 · answer #9 · answered by Spookshow Baby 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋