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NASB | Luke 23:39 ¶ One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 23:39 ¶ One of the criminals who had been hanged [on a cross beside Him] kept hurling abuse at Him, saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us [from death]!" |
Bible Question:
VS 7 AND 8 . We are saved by faith alone, mentioned so many times in the Bible, In wich I believe. My question is on revelation 21 vs 7,8 He who overcomes will inherit all this and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral those who practice magic arts the idolaters and all liars. their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur, this is the second death. I Feel when JESUS died on the cross, SAVED us by dying for all these sins. I feel like this is conflicting to me. for even the guy on the cross to his right was a theif. Can someone please help clarify this for me please? |
Bible Answer: Hi Alalexnikki, Welcome to the Forum. We are saved by faith alone as the channel (Gen 15.6; John 3.16; Romans 3.24; Ephesians 2.8-9) We are saved by the Triune God alone as the Instrument and Means of our salvation, through the cross (Eph 2.8-9; 2 Tim 1.9; Tit 2.11; 3.4-5). All who are saved will finally be overcomers (1 John 5.4-5), for that is what salvation is in the end all about, producing fruit unto eternal life ('by their fruits you will know them'). An overcomer is one who confesses Christ to the end. 'He who endures to the end will be saved'. Concerning verse 8, Paul says, 'and such were some of you, but you have been washed, you have been accounted as holy, you have been accounted as righteous, in the Name of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God' (1 Cor 6.11). The dying thief who turned to Jesus was a thief, but when he was about to die he was no longer a thief, he was one of God's sanctified ones. Many to whom Paul preached were idolaters, but those who responded ceased to be idolaters and became God's sanctified ones. In other words verse 8 is saying that all who are still like this at the end, will experience the second death. If a man came to me and said, 'I am an unbeliever, i live vilely, I am a murderer, I live a sexually immoral life, I practise magic arts, I am an idolater, and I am a continual liar, but forty years ago I professed to believe in Jesus Chrst, am I saved? I would have no hesitation in saying 'no'. For Jesus said, 'by their fruits you will know them'. If Jesus Christ was saving him he would not be like that. Best wishes |
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