Subject: What exactly must a person to be saved? |
Bible Note: You are nice to bless me, and I am a radical to some. You think my position is extreme? Maybe. You are right that the Bible uses the word obey but God is Sovereign. Don't you see that faith and works don't go together and faith without works is what saves? God makes me I don't make myself. Isn't that the idea of Him shaping the clay (Romans 9)? If I start teaching my family to work then I am telling them not to trust in God. He saves me by faith alone and by nothing else. He gives me faith and He renews me and He gives me repentance and he gives me obedience. He determined my path from the beginning. So I can't take credit and I won't. If you see me and think I am obeying I'm not. Like an invisible force field God is drawing me and controlling me. That's God. If works come then God is doing them. All I do is nothing, because God does it all. Read about the teaching of what is called election. Then you will see the truth. |