Subject: What exactly must a person to be saved? |
Bible Note: "Don't you see that faith and works don't go together and faith without works is what saves?" Where in Scripture do you see that faith and works do not go together? Where do you see that a faith that doesn't result in works is what saves? "If I start teaching my family to work then I am telling them not to trust in God." That is 100 percent unbiblical. If you teach them to work in order to earn their way to heaven, that would indeed be telling them not to trust in God. But it would be a demonstration of faithlessness on your part to not train your children to be servants of God. True faith results in works. True faith leads to obedience. Anything else is a false, dead, non-saving faith. "He saves me by faith alone and by nothing else." Okay, but we are not saved by a faith that doesn't move us to obey. "He gives me faith and He renews me and He gives me repentance and he gives me obedience. " All true, but who does the obeying? IT ISN'T GOD. The love of Christ compels me. God is at work in me. God gets the glory for the renewed nature and the obedience. But God does not obey Himself; I obey God. "If you see me and think I am obeying I'm not. Like an invisible force field God is drawing me and controlling me." Scripture? "If works come then God is doing them." Scripture? "All I do is nothing, because God does it all." You know the question I am going to ask. --Joe! |