Not By Works

I would embellish and add...

a. Being deceived also
b. Because a family member believed it as well
c. Family tradition

Amen..........the evidence of things not seen and a confident expectation of something guaranteed....called saved and eternal life...

Fascinating how you define the Righteous Path Jesus walked as "Self Righteous; Hypocritical.

How is "practicing or advocating" strict observance to the Path Jesus walked a sin which I need to repent from?

How is it in your religion, that those who strive to walk the same narrow Path Jesus walked and promoted, are in need of repentance. But those who follow the broad path accepted by the great religions of the land which reject much His Word's are saved and guaranteed immortality?

Maybe we should just trust the Christ and His word's more, and religious man that Jesus warned about over and over, less.

I thought to myself... self let's read DC's hopping thread. Oh my goodness, almost 80,000 comments, pages and pages, since you started this about 1.5 years ago. I have to ask... Since you started this thread, has your thoughts on this matter changed at all? I mean, I know you still have the same position but have you been given more insight?

Revelation 20:13
And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them; and they were judged every one according to their works.

This and eternal salvation as God provides are two topics that always get misconstrued in discussion groups.
Don't you find that to be the case?
Works salvation proponents seem to imagine or perhaps fail to, that they're insisting they need help God by their actions so that he keeps his word concerning his gift of grace.
Does it ever cross those minds that in real time they could ask themselves if they write a check to the person who gives them their birthday gift? Or Christmas presents?

It is made so clear by God himself who is the word. Which was in the beginning and predates any efforts of man to compile an eternal omnipotent spirit of dominion into a tome therein within their control. In other words, Holy Spirit predates man's idea they own God's exclusive approval of them because they believe he said so in a book.

God's grace saves those whom he chose before this whole thing began. And since no thing that exists can be anything but the one creator source behind all that is, was, or ever shall be, what it all boils down to is and what we're told by God himself is, it is requisite that God believed in us.
Now all we have to do is accept that and believe ourselves worthy.
Doing this we follow where he leads. Because now that barrier that exists between our worldly consciousness and our spirit linkage with God is dissolved having come to the knowledge of the truth. Because no one can arrive there without going through the anointed gateway that is the Christ. He who was God walking among us in his time and living the truth of the word that is God. A living testament, example, of what we can become if only we believe.

And all of it is God's doing. All we have to do is wake up and follow where the spirit leads. Trust that. And how we realize we're following our own will, nature, the world's calling, is when we foul up.
But course correction is allowed since we're now in an inward and upward trajectory on the world map. When we're back on course things work out. When we're off course things work to show us where to steer our lives to find the right road. It is all an education in trust.
Our good nature then is evidence of our being reborn to that awareness. We don't work to show ourselves approved. We work as evidence of God's approval.

2 Thessalonians 2:14
Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.

“As for the person who hears my words but DOES NOT KEEP THEM, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it. I KNOW THAT HIS COMMAND LEADS TO ETERNAL LIFE. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.” John 12:47-50

...Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. Ephesians 5:6-7

Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:

1 Timothy 3:15
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Matthew 18:17
And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.

Matthew 16:18
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Rejects me, says God. It says nothing about salvation and having it by keep faith. Those who take God's Word and use them, twist them or even take out of context to misconstrue what God is saying, are in danger of judgment

Sure.....not only is my resolve strengthend, but I have had numerous people message me behind the scenes telling me they have changed their minds and or adjusted their views based upon my incessant stand in this thread.....my continued struggle is for those new and or on the fence....make no mistake..there is but one correct message of salvation, all others = no power to save, double cursed and lead men straight to the pit.

To embellish grace through faith with self effort, works, law keeping, commandment keeping, religious hoop jumping etc. is to void the gospel message.....

There is a reason Jesus states that MANY (PLENTEOUS IN NUMBER IN GREEK) WILL come before his throne claiming him as LORD and claiming their right to ENTER based upon what they have done in his name....and the truth, what is addressed by Jesus in this disclosure is

Faith plus works to gain entry.....Most teach this!

I think I did already weigh in on this, another day here... but sure we should make sure we really believe, be rooted. He is the gardener with whom we are to submit. Yes our salvation should be transformative, showing growth,
sinning less.

My question is if we know none of us will ever have sinless perfection, how are we to find rest in Him and His promises. I think He tells us... seek, with all we have, with all our hearts, His Holiness not ours. We will always need His Grace.

How rewarding that you have helped others to rest by point to His sufficiency, not ours. I do believe our faith endured, requires roots grounded. So, I may not be exactly where you are. But I do believe that if we chose Him on our death beds, He knows our hearts. Ultimately that is what He wants, our hearts. He tells us to guard them. The condition of our hearts seems directly proportional to trust and submission, and in not quenching or grieving the spirit, not willfully, over and over.

Yes, use your own words Decon, God's Word's make you angry, causes you to "stop your ears" and lash out at those who would show them to you. I might also remind you that the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's Time, who ALSO transgressed God's Commandments by their religious traditions, didn't listen to those who opened God's Word and showed HIM to them either. You mock HIS Word's as drivel. But so did Cain and the Pharisees. It has been a "practice" of religious man since the congregation of the Lord wanted to stone Caleb for trusting in the Christ. Nothing new here.

Maybe you can someday climb off that pedestal you have created for yourself and maybe actually engage in a Biblical discussion. Not just the handful of scriptures you consider important, but even those Word's of God you mock and judge as drivel.

I'll be there for you man, if you ever take the leap of Faith and "believe" the Christ who said: Man shall "live by" EVERY Word of God. After all, He is the Word of God.

All I can say to the above.....either Jesus has begun a good work of faith and will FINISH IT AND COMPLETE it or one was not saved....it is ALL HIS POWER AND HIS WORK and th gifts and calling of GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE

Study the word IRREVOCABLE.....and then KEPT by his power through the FAITH HE BEGINS, HE FINISHES HE COMPLETES and the word translated IN <-Our life is HID WITHIN CHRIST

and saved to the UTTERMOST!

These truths above cannot be denied or swept aside to teach something that can be lost or forfeit or that relies on what we do.....

Just sayin

...And you also were included in Christ when you heard THE WORD OF TRUTH, the gospel of your SALVATION. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, Ephesians 1:13


...He replied, “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables: “Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it. “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and SNATCHES AWAY what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful. But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:11-23

...Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone,” and, “A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” THEY STUMBLE BECAUSE THEY DISOBEY THE MESSAGE—which is also what they were destined for. 1 Peter 2:7-8

Pls read the parable of the weeds too and understand why God gives us warnings about deceivers.

1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.



1 Corinthians 11:18
For first of all I hear that when you come together in the church, there are schisms among you; and in part I believe it.