Works?....physically doing "good deeds"? I can worship the devil and accomplish this.
How can feeding the poor glorify God to someone when they are not aware of your faith? Are we not only following commandments? Is it not our duty to do good to all that lives?
Good works are justified to be "good" only by God, for it is God alone who justifies and condemns.
Are we not justified by our God givevn faith? Isn't our every action fueled by our hearts desires?
If we do physical actions to obtain righteousness then the death of Christ was not the finished work of God for our salvation.
Our "deeds" can only be righteous and good by faith in Christ out of a God given divine love because he first loved us, and to me that means that if he loves me and has the power to entirely save my soul period then he will. It is God alone who justified us through the blood of Christ.
So it's our faith in Christ that justifies us. When christ was asked what shall we do to do the works of God he replied "believe on he whom he sent."
Believe what? That he was god? That he was sent to teach a few more spiritually edifying things in parables then be slaughtered only to leave the father looking down biting his nails hoping enough of the evil people will believe to justify the slaughter of hid son? Well, that's not the god I worship.
The God I worship made many promises that I believe through the spirit of truth. He promised his sons and daughters redemptionand eternal life through christ, and christ alone. It's not christ plus whatever you add, no Christ alone.
So if you don't believe that christ is the 100% full redemption for the children of God, and more needs to be accomplished to complete it, then you do not really know or believe in the christ who the father sent. BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD (but only if this or that happens to conspire or be completed by a creation that holds the uncircumcised heart which "is evil above all things")
You can only love and believe in the truth by it being revealed by the Spirit of truth, which will cause you to proclaim with your mouth Jesus is the king of kings and kord of lords and he holds that position with awesomeness because you believe in your heart through the spirit that there is no shadow of doubt that God raised him from the dead for the salvation of my filthy, filthy soul, and I love him and am very grateful and humbled for and by that.
ONLY WHEN ONE LIES FALLEN IN THE DUST IN COMPLETE HUMILITY CAN THEY SEE CLEARLY THAT THE FALLEN STATE OF MANKIND IS NOT PRIMARILY IN NEED OF AN EXAMPLE, BUT A SAVIOR.
How can feeding the poor glorify God to someone when they are not aware of your faith? Are we not only following commandments? Is it not our duty to do good to all that lives?
Good works are justified to be "good" only by God, for it is God alone who justifies and condemns.
Are we not justified by our God givevn faith? Isn't our every action fueled by our hearts desires?
If we do physical actions to obtain righteousness then the death of Christ was not the finished work of God for our salvation.
Our "deeds" can only be righteous and good by faith in Christ out of a God given divine love because he first loved us, and to me that means that if he loves me and has the power to entirely save my soul period then he will. It is God alone who justified us through the blood of Christ.
So it's our faith in Christ that justifies us. When christ was asked what shall we do to do the works of God he replied "believe on he whom he sent."
Believe what? That he was god? That he was sent to teach a few more spiritually edifying things in parables then be slaughtered only to leave the father looking down biting his nails hoping enough of the evil people will believe to justify the slaughter of hid son? Well, that's not the god I worship.
The God I worship made many promises that I believe through the spirit of truth. He promised his sons and daughters redemptionand eternal life through christ, and christ alone. It's not christ plus whatever you add, no Christ alone.
So if you don't believe that christ is the 100% full redemption for the children of God, and more needs to be accomplished to complete it, then you do not really know or believe in the christ who the father sent. BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKETH AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD (but only if this or that happens to conspire or be completed by a creation that holds the uncircumcised heart which "is evil above all things")
You can only love and believe in the truth by it being revealed by the Spirit of truth, which will cause you to proclaim with your mouth Jesus is the king of kings and kord of lords and he holds that position with awesomeness because you believe in your heart through the spirit that there is no shadow of doubt that God raised him from the dead for the salvation of my filthy, filthy soul, and I love him and am very grateful and humbled for and by that.
ONLY WHEN ONE LIES FALLEN IN THE DUST IN COMPLETE HUMILITY CAN THEY SEE CLEARLY THAT THE FALLEN STATE OF MANKIND IS NOT PRIMARILY IN NEED OF AN EXAMPLE, BUT A SAVIOR.