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Thursday April 01, 2004 04:44:11 PM -0500
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Romans 4 verse 27 " Can we boast then, that we have done anything to be acceptable to God”? No, because our acquittal is NOT BASED ON OUR GOOD DEEDS, IT IS BASED ON OUR FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST AND IN JESUS CHRIST ONLY (NOT BUDDAH NOT MOHAMMAD, NOT BEING A GOOD PERSON AND TRYING THE BEST WE CAN, NOT GIVING TO THE POOR, NOT GOING TO CHURCH, NOT HELPING OTHERS, SALVATION IS NOT BASED ON ANY OF THESE SO we are made right with God through faith, (Romans verse 29) After all, Is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes of Gentiles too. There is only ONE GOD and there is ONLY ONE WAY OF BEING ACCEPTED BY HIM, he makes us right with himself only by faith in Jesus Christ, whether there are by Jews or Gentiles." After that step of faith we now want to live onto God by doing the good deeds, yes helping, giving, serving, but these all come after we have put our faith in Christ for our salvation, after we have REPENTED, AFTER we have accepted JESUS CHRIST. Romans 5 verse 8 "But God showed his great LOVE for us by sending CHRIST to die for us while we were still sinners." SEE, ALL THROUGH HERE, THE BIBLE IS SPEAKING OF JESUS...he is the ONLY ONE, through JESUS CHRIST shed blood on the cross. NO ONE ELSE CAN, AND HAVE, GONE TO THE CROSS TO REDEEM MANKIND ONLY JESUS CHRIST ....when we really stop to think on this, WE CAN ONLY HUMBLY SAY THANK YOU JESUS, can there be any other way or any other price.. THEREFORE IF WE SAY "GOD HAS MADE US ALL SO DIFFERENT AND THEREFORE IT STANDS TO REASON THAT HE MUST HAVE ALLOWED DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET TO HIM" THAT MEANS THAT JESUS' SUFFERING, DEATH AND CRUCIFIXION WAS FOR ONE PERSONALITY TYPE. (The bible clearly says that God’s ways are far different than our ways and his thoughts are far higher than our thoughts,) IF HE ALLOWED OTHER WAYS....FOR OTHER PERSONALITY TYPES...... WHAT OTHER WAYS CAN PARALLEL CHRIST BIRTH, LIFE AND DEATH. IF THE SCRIPTURES SAYS THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SALVATION EXCEPT THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THEN PERHAPS WE NEED TO CONSIDER THE FACT THAT ANY OTHER SUBSTITUTE IS ACTUALLY REPLACING JESUS CHRIST AND THEREFORE REJECTING HIM AS SAVIOR OF MANKIND. John 3 verse 16 .. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life, For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to SAVE the world through him.” If we really understand what this is saying, can we now continue to rationalize that there are other ways to God?!! other than his Son JESUS CHRIST. People will forever argue they did so while the very God walked among them, and they will continue to even up until his return. Did you realize he really is coming back!!! The scriptures tell us that, but of course you have to read it to know.
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