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Jay T wrote:
Jesus Christ said that all 10 commandments found in Exodus 20:3-17, are to be kept by anyone, who wants to get into heaven.
jgredline said:OK, Here is what another member wrote and was wondering how many of you out there believe this?
Jay T wrote:
Jesus Christ said that all 10 commandments found in Exodus 20:3-17, are to be kept by anyone, who wants to get into heaven.
So, this introduces a whole new concept of salvation....
I for the record, could not find where Jesus said this.. If anybody knows, please provide book, chapter and verse and bible version while your are at it..
Gabbylittleangel said:oh, I had to opt for #2. :-D
freeway01 said:I to have to cast my vote "faith" on opt #2.. reason being, I'm kinda havin trouble with a few of the commandments, namely 1 thur 10,, so far I'm OK with #5 but #10 givin me a real hard time.. :wink:
unred typo said:Faith is believing what God says to do and doing it, golfjack. Unless we believe what God says to do and do it, we cannot please God...
Can we do everything Jesus commanded and earn our salvation? No. That’s why Jesus died. Whenever we mess up, we can repent, and the blood makes us perfect again. By confessing our sins, and believing in his blood to take away those sins as we repent of them, we are having faith in his blood to save us. Does this negate grace? How? There are no works that we can do to undo our sins, only the blood can do that. Did Jesus have to die for us? So it was by grace that we are saved, isn’t it?
...To believe in Christ, you must believe what he said, not just some facts about him. To be in Christ, you must "dwell in love."
Because I love the Lord my desire is to keep His commandments and be dead to sin, but if at some point I fail, His blood is sufficient.Gabbylittleangel said:jg,
I may be wrong here, but I was under the impression that if we could keep the ten commandments, that we would not need the sacrifice that Jesus made for us. It is because we CAN NOT do it, that we needed Jesus to do it for us.
There are two ways to get into heaven. :o :-D
1.) Live a perfect sinless life.
2.) Trust in the one that did.
francisdesales said:Faith without love is nothing.
Regards
destiny said:Because I love the Lord my desire is to keep His commandments and be dead to sin, but if at some point I fail, His blood is sufficient.
Romans 6: 1-2
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
jgredline said:I believe that a Child of God can't loose his Salvation. No way jose...
I also don't believe is OSAS....If a person looses his salvation, he lost nothing because he never had it to begin with...He only thought he / she had it.....Hence these people will hear the words ''I never knew you''
francisdesales said:Egad...
So you do not know you are saved, do you? We don't know what we will do in 10 years, so does this mean that anything you do today MIGHT NOT be from God, since "we were never saved to begin with"? I see this as a serious cause of confusion among Christians. An act of love done 10 years ago was from God! That cannot be undone.
We were saved. That past cannot be "unsaved". However, all those "saved" years and years ago will not necessarily enter heaven upon their deaths. Being justified 30 years ago was only the first step in our salvation to heaven. Thus, the Scriptures tell us "I am saved", "I am being saved", and "I will be saved". Depends on the context. It's a journey that actually BEGAN for ALL Christians, whether they fell away later or not...
ALL Christians were saved (healed) - but some may require God's healing touch again...
But placing "I am saved" only in the past - claiming with certainty that "I am saved!" and then denying it ever happened 20 years later is sophistry... This theology casts into doubt everything you do...
Let's not deny what Christ's Spirit has done in the past - rather, let us repent again when we fall, and not blame God for "never being there to begin with".
Regards
destiny said:I would like to agree with you jg, but I can't on this.
How would you interpret this...
Romans 11:17-22 - And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in." Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, ((if)) you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.