Pentacostals, SDA, JW, and Free Will Baptists?

Question

What do you think of Ephesians 2:1-13?

Answer 1

Your question is going to fall on deaf ears as far as these beliefs go. They will gloss completely over those verses, and completely agree with them, inserting parentheses at the appropriate points with "all you have to do" statements that support their position. To them, grace follows faith, it does not precede it.

Answer 2

By the grace of God that we all can be saved. No matter how sinful our life was, we can be saved and become new and clean. We don't have to carry a heavy burden with us for the rest of eternity. God will save in even the sinners.

Who can say a person can or cannot be saved at the end?
God works in mysterious ways.

Answer 3

Spiritual infection can come from outside sources. It can spread to us from those who are spiritually dead. If we are too close to them, we can pick up their attitudes and life-styles. Getting ahead secularly, loving money, enjoying the best materially, and having a good time are the big things in the lives of people of this world. But desire for such things is very contagious, and even limited exposure to them can make us spiritually sluggish.

Answer 4

i'm no longer probably familiar with distinctive religions/denominations or their ideals, so i do no longer choose or criticize. i think of i'm what you call a Pentecostal, and that i understand this: regardless of worldly church, a thank you to Heaven is perception in God and recognition of Jesus Christ by using fact the son of God, and Jesus' start in the international, crucifixion, and His resurrection. no longer basically asserting the words, yet unquestionably believing it. With this could come learn, congregating with different believers, and prayer. perception interior the Trinity (father, son, and holy ghost) comes after recognition of the certainty one is saved. All Pentecostals do no longer deny the Trinity!

Answer 5

While Jehovah's Witnesses understand faith to be the primary thing for a Christian, they also understand that professed "faith" or "predestination" is not a license for a sinner to continue to indulge his sin.

(Matthew 7:20-23) Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize... “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness.


One's faith must have SOME effect on the individual's personality and lifecourse. The Scriptures quite plainly explain that humans can disqualify themselves from receiving everlasting life; it is only the faithful COMPLETION of a life course that assures salvation. [Emphasis added to citations below.]

(Zephaniah 2:3) Seek Jehovah, all you meek ones of the earth, who have practiced His own judicial decision. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. PROBABLY you may be concealed in the day of Jehovah's anger.

(Amos 5:15) Hate what is bad, and love what is good, and give justice a place in the gate. It MAY be that Jehovah the God of armies will show favor

(Matthew 7:13-14) Go in through the narrow gate; because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones going in through it; 14 whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are the ones finding it.

(Matthew 24:13) But he that has endured TO THE END is the one that will be saved.

(Philippians 2:12) Keep WORKING OUT your own salvation with fear and trembling

(Hebrews 10:26-27) For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, 27 but there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment

(Hebrews 5:9) [Jesus] became responsible for everlasting salvation to all those OBEYING him

(James 2:14,17) Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? ...Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

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Answer 6

It's talking about Salvation by Grace, through Faith.

What do you think it's saying, that any of those denominations would have an issue with it?

Answer 7

its nice it is saying sinners can change

Answer 8

AMEN!