Subject: Are these essentials for Salvation? |
Bible Note: Lionheart, I cited the incorrect posting for your review. The correct post is ID#167082. Some verses are cited to support my view regarding repentance. My apologies. Also, I can agree with your comment, “The unbeliever will never [repent] till they come to Jesus Christ with a saving faith, which goes way beyond worldly sorrow” and add only that “saving faith” involves repentance, which, in turn, may or may not involve sorrow (godly or otherwise, at least, at the time of conversion) but necessarily involves obedience to God. I say that it may involve sorrow bot not necessarily based upon my own conversion experience. When I came to Christ, I did not have a sorrow for sin; all I was only aware of a strong desire to know God and realized it is only through the Cross of Christ that God is known and experienced. (Just as an aside, I was not even aware that I possessed eternal life until some weeks after my conversion). |