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I am stealing this title from a question earlier. And I am even co-opting his question a bit but turning it around.

If you were hanging from a rope above a fiery pit and about to fall. Jesus stretched out his hand and said take my hand and I will save you. Accept my salvation and you will be forgiven and saved. Would you say no and fall? Or would you take his hand and be saved?

This is what Christ is doing now. He is saying take my hand and accept me. I will save you.

Also I would prefer to avoid responses like Jesus does not exist and thus I cannot take his hand.

2007-08-21 11:32:57 · 16 answers · asked by Bible warrior 5 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

God Is Love

I understand it takes more than that for salvation. I am just putting it a bit simplistic here.

2007-08-21 11:44:08 · update #1

16 answers

Pangel actually gave a good answer, but the question of salvation has nothing to do with a bribe. God is our salvation simply by nature of who He is. There is danger in sin and in the world and He has made the way to escape from it.

If a person goes outside in the hot sun, and doesn't put a good sunblock on, how does that person expect to be saved a burn? If a person does not put their trust in the sunblock by applying it to his or her skin, does that mean the sunblock is intentionally letting the person get burned and being hateful to the person? NO. The sunblock by nature of what it is, protects people from being sunburned, but without putting faith in it by applying it to the skin, it cannot do so.

It is the same with God and His salvation. He is the way, the truth and the life!

God does not offer or accept bribes, in fact He warns people against it in His word because it does nothing but harm. God IS good and He does not sin, why would He tell us NOT to make or accept a bribe if He would do it Himself? He would not... He is HOLY. It's just that people misunderstand Him.

But people don't have to misunderstand... if people would believe Him, and trust Him they would know God and see that He is good.

2007-08-21 11:49:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

RESPONSE

1 LESS TALKING MORE HELPING!

2 HOW do yout not fall!

3 HE is probly hanging on a rope jst like me, giving him my hand wld lead him to climbing up my rope then standing on the beam my rope is hanging from. HE would then have a chance to do two things, cut my rope on purpose or pull me up and stop me from plummeting to firey doom

I WOULD rather stretch out my hand and ask if he would take it

4 DO a crunch climb up your own rope and save yourself

5 ASK would u stil save me if I dont accept u or do u leave everyone who turns u down to die?

6 BALDUCCI levitation TEACH MEEEEEEEEEEE

7 WTFBBQ those r some freakly long hands

2007-08-21 18:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by Death N 4 · 0 1

Luckily Christ never existed! So NO! I'd just laugh at the delusion and finish reading a book by Richard Dawkins.

2007-08-21 18:40:14 · answer #3 · answered by labohemianartist 4 · 2 1

Tell you what, when I am over a fiery pit and someone puts their hand out, I'll take it then.

2007-08-21 18:38:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1 0

Where is this pit of which you speak?

Why are you copying ideas from a 1741 work by Jonathan Edwards?

2007-08-21 18:46:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If I was hanging over a real fire and a real person offered a hand, I'd take it. That doesn't mean I have any desire to take an imaginary hand to avoid an imaginary fire.

2007-08-21 18:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 1 1

That's fine, if he gave me his hand I would not say no and I will accept his salvation.

2007-08-21 18:38:07 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

It takes more than that to be saved. If someone was hanging over a fire and anyone said take my hand they would do the same. Then they would forget it!

2007-08-21 18:40:31 · answer #8 · answered by God is love. 6 · 0 3

Jesus is dead and I'm not in danger of falling in a firey pit so the question is bull.

2007-08-21 18:36:35 · answer #9 · answered by The Dog Abides 3 · 3 2

Well of course I'll take His hand.

2007-08-21 18:37:45 · answer #10 · answered by S-Y T 2 · 0 2

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