What is the degree of consequence in your decision of whether or not, to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior?

Question

Please support your answer by stating why. Also, what implications based on your answer have you reached? Please refer back to the question.

Steve C: You said, "It is science vs. superstition, you need to use logic to decide what is the right decision for your life."

I agree that we need to use logic to decide what is the right decision. However, you need to explain how the Word of God is superstitious. Also the Bible is not against science. The Bible claims that God created the earth and universe and all that is in it, including all of the laws behind science. Science is the study of God's creation.

deadcat: My question presupposes nothing.

For all of those who claim to know that Jesus is not our Savior, your reasoning is flawed, simply because you do not know. Any reasoning that supports what you THINK you know based on what you do NOT know is not valid reasoning. Therefore most of you are dancing around the question.

scoop: You cannot reasonably say you're a Christian based on what you've said. You must accept and have faith in Jesus as our Savior, or you will be sent to Hell for eternity, according to the Bible. We are not saved by works alone. God's Word states this very clearly.

Summer Breeze: God gave us free will to choose. He doesn't choose for us. The Bible does not state that God shows favoritism.

Truth Teller: Jesus is God in human form. Study and learn about the Trinity. Jesus died and 3 days later was resurrected.

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scoop: You need to study the Bible.

Answer 1

It is science vs. superstition, you need to use logic to decide what is the right decision for your life.

Answer 2

Honestly, as a Christian I don't believe there is any eternal consequence. How you life your life now determines how you grow as a person, but I don't believe you need to have Jesus Christ as your Savior to be a good person. I think being THE way to God meant being a loving, kind person (like Jesus) to experience the fullness of love (God in all forms is love).

(IF Jesus were looking for converts, fear-based decisions is probably not what he's wanting)

edit: as a Christian, (and yes I am a Christian even if I don't conform to what you might THINK is a Christian because Jesus is part of my spiritual story) I think what we need to be saved from is ourselves. We are putting ourselves into our own versions of hell with prejudices, hate and fear. God is pure love and the God I believe I know would never condemn anybody to an eternal hell based on what culture we were raised in. You are right--it's not works alone that bring us to God for eternity after earthly death, but I don't think it's belief or faith either. I think returning to the Source after death is the natural process for everyone, everything.

PS I have studied the Bible...I got my B.A. in Religion at a Christian college and my husband is in seminary and i've taken classes with him

Answer 3

None really!

I was alive, living as most people do and not pleased with life. There still are things I do not like but I have a new perspective since accepting Jesus as my Savior and Lord.

The point I ought to make is that since then, it did take time but I began to feel differently about my life and life as a whole. The shift started taking me more to Him and further from the world. It is a constant process, actually.

I do not stay whre I am in Him because of fear of going to hell or any such thing. I simply love Him and love being His. I'm sorry that I cannot be more explicit.

Answer 4

There are no consequences whatsoever, except perhaps a freedom from the yoke of being fooled into taking a myth as a reality.

Reasoning as follows:
Point 1. I choose to NOT believe because it is my choice and my right as a sentient being to choose what I will or will not believe.
Point 2. Mythology, while beautiful (sometimes), enlightening (sometimes), and barbaric (too many times), can only be construed by a rational mind as imaginary. There are no real consequences from imaginary entities.

Implications: I am saved from nonsense.

Answer 5

Jesus is a holy Messenger of God. He is the son of Maryum (Mary in English). He is the Mass'ih which means someone who is annointed in oil or water.

This is very poorly translated into Christos in the Greek. This means annointed one. If you saw the Messiah today and called him Jesus Christ this language would be unbeknown to him. He would have known himself as Isa-Ibn-Maryum (Jesus son of Mary) or Mass'ih.

Jesus is one in a line of Prophets which stems from the first man, Adam through to Noah, Abraham to Moses and to Jesus and Mohammed [peace be upon them all]. Nowhere in the Bible does he ever say "I am God" or "worship me".

In fact he says he is the Son of Man 5 times for every once he says he is the Son of God his father.

Be clear, Jesus was a Prophet - not the Son of God, because God is one, He is unbegotten and He does not begot. This is repeated in scriptures. Moreso:

Jesus was an man of Arab descent was he not? He was a Palestinian was he not. He had brown skin and a long beard. He prayed prostrated on his knees. He fasted for one month a year. In his mother tongue of Aramaic, he called God 'Allaha', just as Moses before him called God 'Ella' in the Hebrew.

Jesus was a revolutionary who preached the validity of the scriptures that came before him and he prophesised the coming of a final Prophet, The 'Comforter'. He outlawed the flesh of the swine; he outlawed alcohol; he outlawed gambling and usury.

So Christians...do you act like he acted? Does he sound like a Christian or a Muslim?

What about craven images of God or of Prophets or of man, animals or spirits? These are STRICTLY forbidden in the Old Testament so much so that anyone who worhsips an idol, or who makes a craven image is cursed to the seventh generation.

So worshipping before a statue, kneeling before a statue... do you know how the pagan ritual of drinking the "blood" of Christ got into the Christian faith... what about the pagan ritual of eating the "body" of Christ?

Think.

Jesus is not the son of God, nor is he God. He was a Messenger like those before him and those that followed. Even he himself says in the Bible that he was sent to none but to guide the Children of Israel (a person NOT a place).

Think.

And in all things, God knows best. Challenge the status quo and look for enlightenment, look for the Truth

Answer 6

One doesn't 'accept' Christ as his/her Savior - God does the choosing. The bible says (in reference to those born again and those who will be saved), ".....He first loved us". It also says that He has chosen His people before the foundation of the world, so God knew before He created the world who would be saved and who won't be.

As for the consequences of one's decision to turn to Christ for salvation or not: if one doesn't turn to Jesus for their salvation, they will suffer eternal damnation. If one does repent of their sins and calls upon Christ to be saved, then he/she will have everlasting lilfe - that simple. Read John 3:3

Answer 7

The only way into heaven and out of eternal hell is to believe that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again. That is of eternal consequence.

Answer 8

The question presupposes that I am in need of a savior. It also presupposes that a divine Jesus Christ is an actual entity and not a myth. Since noboby has given me any evidence to support either of these suppositions, as a rational person, I obviously reject them.

Answer 9

Unfortunately your question is not answerable as written because it contains an assumption that is not proven.

One CANNOT 'accept' a thing that one does not believe exists to begin with. Therefore 'acceptance' (or refusal) has no relevance in this context. EVERYONE who actually believes in Jesus as God 'accepts' him, and there is no 'decision' involved. I do not 'decide' whether or not to accept Jesus as I do not actually believe in any such being existing at the present time. One cannot decide to accept a thing that one does not believe in to begin with. Understand?

Answer 10

My reason is this Free Will or Choice, it is a lie.
You can’t give someone Free Will, and then punish them for choosing wrong, or what you don't agree with.
I know you won’t understand my reasoning, you may never understand.
It is beyond your understanding, right now.
But don’t worry, there is still a chance.
I was young and naive as you are now.

Answer 11

I fear no consequence. Even if I did fear consequence (Pascal's Wager) I would still not believe since this is fear-based and not faith-based, and thus it would not be accepted by God. Furthermore I try not to do anything on the basis of fear.