GodsGrace
CF Ambassador
Not at all.
God does not accept us based on us.
He accepts only His own righteousness that He provides us, as "the gift of righteousness".
See, God came here, to provide our only means of acceptance.
We have to become as righteous as He is, SPIRITUALLY, to be accepted by Him.
When you read 1 John 3:9, that is talking about your born again Spirit, and not your mind or body. (flesh).
God does not accept us based on us?
Where does it state this in scripture?
Paul said we will be judged by our behavior.....
Romans 2:5-8
5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
6who WILL RENDER TO EACH PERSON ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS:
7to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life;
8but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.
IOW,,,it's of no use to be born again spiritually and still do evil deeds...we will be judged just like the unsaved spoken of above.
JESUS said we will be judged by our behavior....
John 5:28
28“Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,
29and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.
ALL will hear His voice....
those who did GOOD DEEDS to a resurrection of life (a bodily resurrection)
those who committed evil deeds to a resurrection of judgement.
Are we to believe YOU or Paul and Jesus?
You are making incorrect statements from your own mind and are misleading many persons who will be YOUR responsibility upon your resurrection.
James 3:1
1Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.
There is no sin in Heaven. Lucifer tried this, and Jesus said that He watched him fall as lighting.
So, for a sinner to end up in Heaven, we have to be "made righteous".
We have to be born again SPIRITUALLY equal to the righteousness of God.
The Cross is why this happens to all who "believe".
The Cross is God's offer of a Divine Exchange.
On the Cross, Jesus became our sin 2 Corinthians 5:21. and the born again become "the righteousness of God, in Christ". 2 Corinthians 5:21
This is "the gift of Salvation". "the Gift of Righteousness". and "eternal life".
God literally births our SPIRIT into His Own, after He redeems all our sin, with Christ's Blood.
Correct....
The born again become the righteousness of God IN CHRIST.
If we are IN CHRIST it simply means that we are following Him as our Teacher/Savior.
Jesus did NOT teach what you are espousing on this forum.
Jesus spoke about how we are to behave for His entire ministry.
Never did He say we are simply to believe in Him for salvation.
He told Nicodemus we are to be reborn in spirit (and not just in body)....
this means that we are to be one with God.
Sinners cannot be one with God....
It's imperative that God's commandments be followed in order to be IN CHRIST.
Salvation is 2 parts.
1.) God's blood (Christ on the Cross) resolves all your sin
2.) God then births your SPIRIT into His Spirit by the Holy Spirit. = born again.
The born again, become this......"As Christ IS.....so are the born again, in this World".
Where does it state this?
Maybe I'm not understanding you.
Where the confusion comes in, is when a believer does not understand that their SPIRIT has become "the righteousness of GOD....In Christ".
See, most believers do not realize that their body and their mind is not the Real you.
You sound gnostic.
They also believed that we were separated by our body and our spirit.
Many of those sects sinned all they wanted to because it was "their body" that was sinning and not "their spirit".
Are you a gnostic?
They were not welcomed into the early church.
New Creation just means that the old sinning me is dead....The body is your house, and the Spirit that lives in the house, is the Real you.
So, its your Spirit that is Born again, inside the body, that God has "made righteous" by the Divine Exchange.
Real faith, is to get this revelation of who you have become, "in Christ", as a "new creation" "born again Spiritually".
And the new me desires to please God.
BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE NEW...
ALL....
Not just the spirit.