Abide in Christ

So you are saying that Jesus fatalistically chooses people? Why does Jesus choose people? Do you believe that Jesus is omniscient?

I believe in weird things. I don't believe Jesus fatalistically chooses people and i don't believe that believers choose Christ either; I believe salvation is creation once again. God creates everything anew by separating day from night.

They are saved by the blood of Christ just as every human is. How can you hold an infant accountable for failing to repent and believe the gospel when they are incapable of doing so?

You certainly do believe in weird things.

What did Jesus mean by this:
Matt 18:3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

That’s how Jesus characterized conversion, which pictures faith as the helpless, trusting, dependence of little children who have no resources or achievements of their own to offer or commend themselves with. The most trusting people in the world are children, which have not acquired obstructions, like advanced education, false religion and exposure to philosophies of men.

So it’s about “humility and trusting” in regards to little children. Are you still confused about Matthew 18:3?

True. Generally, Jesus characterized salvation in figurative speech but not in this case.

When Jesus says, "if your righteousness does not surpass that of the Pharisees.......", we know what He means. It doesn't mean that you become like a Pharisee and even act more righteous than them nor does it mean that the Pharisees are righteous people. This has some meaning behind it.

IMO

When Jesus says, "unless you change and become like children......", He means it. Children are righteous of God which means they are saved. So when Jesus says you should be like them to be saved, you are actually required to be like them because they are righteous.

Children don't hate and therefore, they have fulfilled all the requirement. Loving one another is all that is required of us and this is faith. It is never about choosing God or God choosing some people and causing them to have faith and punishing those He did not cause to have faith.

Faith is not about who ascends to heaven or who descends to hell like most of you have turned it:

Rom 10:6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” b (that is, to bring Christ down) 7“or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ ” c (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8But what does it say?“The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” d that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: 9If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Nope. It's about love. The one who loves has fulfilled all the requirements. In any case, love beareth all things.

See 1 John 4:7-8.

He still misunderstand salvation through faith in Christ., which you confuse with man’s performance. In regards to the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, which consisted of seeking the acceptance of God by their careful adherence to their rules and traditions and the law.. So what righteousness is Jesus talking about? Philippians 3:9 - and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.

And that righteousness found in God by faith is not what you and many others teach. That righteousness and that faith is love for one another and nothing more.

No, it’s not what you think. The righteousness which is of God by faith is faith in Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation. Faith is the cause (Ephesians 2:8) and love is the effect. (Romans 5:5) You continue to teach that we will be saved based on the merits of our best efforts to love/perform acts of charity etc.. and you mistakenly call that salvation through faith. You have crossed over into salvation by works.

Not really. Salvation is not what we do or even think, it is what Christ already did.

I said and i've always said that love is how we abide in Christ not how we are saved. Take note once again.

Faith is not the cause for love because love is not expressed through faith but faith is expressed through love:

Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

And if you want to know how far you are, use the example i have given time and again. Children are saved, not because they draw mental pictures of Christ on the cross and not because they are emotional about the gospel but truly, they have faith in Christ.

No, it’s not what you think. The righteousness which is of God by faith is faith in Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation. Faith is the cause (Ephesians 2:8) and love is the effect. (Romans 5:5) You continue to teach that we will be saved based on the merits of our best efforts to love/perform acts of charity etc.. and you mistakenly call that salvation through faith. You have crossed over into salvation by works.

Ezekiel 18:29 - But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right? But the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not right.' Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

Ezekiel 33:13 - When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his OWN righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die. Did you read that? "If he trusts in his OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS." This is the heart of the matter here. This is describing a righteousness which is by the law rather than that which is by faith.

*The New Testament states in Romans 10:3 - "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that BELIEVES.

As James Fawcett Brown points out - righteous--one apparently such; as in Matthew 9:13, "I came not to call the righteous," that is, those who fancy themselves righteous. First please notice the underlined words "his righteousness" meaning that the "righteous" turns from his righteousness. That is his OWN righteousness.

We are saved through faith based on the merits of Christ finished work of redemption alone and not based on the merits of our works. (Romans 3:24-28) So you believe that we remain saved by love, which is “type 2 work salvation.” Faith expressed through love does not mean that we are saved by faith + love. Salvation through faith in Christ is not about drawing mental pictures of Christ on the cross or a temporary, shallow belief that has no root, produces no fruit and withers away. It’s also not enough to believe “mental assent” that the death, burial and resurrection of Christ “happened.” We must also trust in the death burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation