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1 | Do you have to know Christ? | Eph 2:8 | 9-1-1 | 146649 | ||
I was listening to a Christian Radio station the other day, as I do every day, and I heard something that confused me and I would like some one to give their opinion. This PASTOR said that we can go to heaven just by being good and doing the right thing. That you don't have to know Christ. He was refer. to those who are not able to worship the Lord and those who know nothing about the Lord. Those of different countries. I know what the bible says about this, but I also know that Jesus Christ is LOVE and showing love to one another is something that even Christian's lack sometimes. | ||||||
2 | Do you have to know Christ? | Eph 2:8 | journey_me | 146650 | ||
God created two ways to enter the kingdomof heaven. The first was through the law, and the second was through Christ Jesus, Jesus died so that we would be free from the law, and have a chance to enter the kingdom of heaven. Those that do not know Jesus and those that do not believe in God cannot enter heaven. They are not condemned to hell, but they will not know eternal life. How can someome go somewhere that they don't believe exists or that they don't have faith in? I think what the Pastor was saying, is that there is another way to know God other than through Christ, and that is by following the law. The law is the covenant that God made with the Jews in the Old Testament. However, in Ephesians in clearly states that the law (works) along will not allow you to enter the Kingdom, you must have faith. So people who just do good things, need to also believe in God and practice the old covenant, or believe in grace by Christ. |
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3 | Do you have to know Christ? | Eph 2:8 | BradK | 146652 | ||
Hello journey me, You might be confusing things here a bit:-) You say there are 2 ways to enter the kingdom of God? How so? There is but one way, John 14:6 always has been and always will be. Salvation has ALWAYS been by faith in Christ. Refer to Hebrews 11. My dear friend, the Law will only condem. It cannot save anyone! Galatians 3:21-22, "Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law. But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe." Galatinas 2:16, "nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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4 | Do you have to know Christ? | Eph 2:8 | journey_me | 146656 | ||
I believe you are right and believe what I have said was not written to convey the message clearly. I think what I was saying is that god made a promise though Abraham (the law) and through Jesus (faith). I was trying interpret what I believed the pastor was saying. I do believe that you are saved though faith along, but it is my undrstanding that Jews follow the law, because of a promise God made to Abraham, and that they believe they are saved as long as they follow the law or until their "messiah" comes (although we know he has already come). Is this correct? Galtians 3:6 Consider Abraham: “He believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”[a] 7Understand, then, that those who believe are children of Abraham. 8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”[b] 9So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. |
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