Subject: Salvation Poll |
Bible Note: A poll which only confuses the issue isn’t needed, i.e. human viewpoint. The main crux is, thus says the Word of the Lord. It is often found within the text of Holy writ what is known as a parenthetical phrase or clause. These are not necessary words or phrases as they don’t actually contribute to the truth conveyed by the main subject of the sentence. If we were talking about math, namely fractions, it would be the same as boiling everything down to its most common denominator for a single truth. The simplest fact of salvation is as follows. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. The proof of this is found in actually by observance of the thief on the cross and Christ’s response to him. At the beginning he was in league with the other thief but then he had a change of mind as to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as he called Him Lord or (KORIOS) in the Koine Greek of the Scripture. Luke 23:42-43 (NASB) 42 And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!" 43 And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise." (And he was saying,)as in the previous verse is broken down like this. It's in the indicative mood, imperfect tense, active voice of the verb (ELEGEN) from the root word (LEGO). The indicative mood means reality or certainty, the imperfect tense informs us of something we don’t find in the English translation, i.e. he literally kept on saying, Jesus remember me when You come in Your kingdom, Jesus remember me when You come in Your kingdom, Jesus remember me when You come in Your kingdom, The active voice means that the thief produced the action of the verb. The next question many might ask is this, when did the thief repent? This is, “one of,” the most misunderstood verbs in the Bible. Repent comes to us from the Koine Greek verb (METANOEO) it’s a compound word that means to have a change of thinking or a change of mind and it has absolutely nothing to do with being sorry for sin! God isn’t impressed with how we feel about sin all He considers is what His Son did for those sins. Nothing we can do will ever impress God; the only thing that He is impressed with is the work that Jesus Christ His unique Son finished on the cross for those sins!!! Anything anyone adds to “faith alone” in Jesus Christ “alone” and what He did on the cross is barking up the wrong tree and they better get their eyes off of themselves and get them fixed on the person of God’s Precious Son before it’s too late. God’s policy is strictly by GRACE through FAITH and that is in His Son and nothing at all from us, Jesus did it all, all to Him I owe. This is not open for discussions take it or leave it! I will not respond, CDBJ |