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How to be permanently 'saved', live with God forever after you die: BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST PAID FOR YOUR SINS ON THE CROSS. See the blue boxes at left below, for added info on why only "believe" is valid. You don't have to understand it, though. Just DO it once, and you're forever saved. |
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All too often Christians and others restrict their consideration of the relationship between "God" (however defined) and mankind, to the limited issue of sin and human good. The problem is far bigger and more fundamental than that. God Is Infinite: that is the problem for us, even if we all never sinned, and obeyed perfectly -- the "AND come short of the glory of God" clause, in Romans 3:23.
So: how shall God solve the INCOMPATIBILITY between Infinite Perfection.. and finiteness? Such that, Infinity can JUSTIFY intimate relationship with finiteness (imperfection being a further incompatibility to solve)? This is where we should start our inquiry about whether and if God, whether and if mankind. If God is Infinite, then the First Problem Is The Incompatibility Between Infinity And Finity. The solution to that problem will thus solve all other problems (i.e., the problem of sin fracturing the soul beyond repair). |
God rescues/saves you to Himself permanently the first moment you SIMPLY BELIEVE CHRIST PAID for all your sins on His Cross; once you've believed in Him, you are forever rescued from Hell, period. For as the Lord Himself said in John 16:9, salvation is never about sin or what people do. But rather: Do You Want To Live With God Forever? If "yes", you believe in Christ; meaning, that He paid for all your sins; that His Payment Alone can justify your relationship with God forever. For God is Infinitely Holy, but none of us are infinite, let alone holy. Christ solved that problem. Hence, it's only about believing in Him, not about sin, etc.
So clearly, sin is not an issue since He died for us "while we were yet sinners". So clearly, no ritual or good deed is relevant, either. The One Who Paid, is the object of belief, not some ritual, for crying out loud. So obviously: if you believed you needed to be baptised to be saved, you are NOT saved. So now, just believe Christ paid for your sins right now, and you are forever saved. And kiss all that ritual and angst good-bye, as you say Hello to the One with Whom You will forever LIVE, John 3:16. God is refreshing, never petty. God's Infinite Perfection can't be satisfied by any sacrifice other than Infinite Quality. What makes God Infinitely Holy, is Love. Which means, He'd never do anything less than Infinitely Competent. Righteousness is a standard of Competency, really, so way higher than whether one doesn't sin; you can sin and not be infinitely competent, right? Um, so this means we creation can't ever measure up, since we can't be infinite; so OF COURSE we sin: it's frustrating to not be as competent as God. So look at the juridical problem He faced: that would mean no creation should be made! It's an impossible dichotomy Love would never accept! Well, Infinite God relishes the impossible, due to that Same Love. So the Infinite Challenge was, for the Holy Spirit to Teach Divine Thinking to the Humanity of Christ, so that Christ's Infinite Quality Thinking could pay for sins. Divine Thinking in Humanity alone is sufficient 'sacrifice'. All the while, that Humanity had to eschew using His Own Nature as God -- which made all the waiting on the Spirit Who taught, Infinitely Harder. How Christ survived even to get to the Cross, and then on the Cross?! is a story one never tires of recalling. All sin is 'matched' by thoughts He had when the sins were imputed to Him, such that when Omniscient Father 'looks' at the sin, He 'sees' Christ's Thinking! And we all know, it's only the thought that counts... So you can be sure that the very nanosecond you believe in Christ, you are permanently rescued. Your appointment with hell, got blotted out.. by His Thinking on your behalf, while on the Cross. Forever. [Isa53:10-12 in the original Bible texts explains this process, blow-by-blow; the entire Bible, the entire universe, the entire history of mankind, revolve around those three original-text verses. Provably. Translations always fail to translate the Greek text, which supplies information the Hebrew texts, miss. See last full screen of Isa53.htm. Once you truly learn Isa53:10-12, your understanding of God, and your confidence in God, will skyrocket.]
Bible legal term for the RESULT of this belief in Christ, is "Reconciliation". So BELIEVE in Christ, and from that moment forward you are forever saved, Gen15:6, Acts 4:12, 16:31; John 3:16, 18, 36. (Really, dozens of verses even in the Gospels alone -- Greek tenses show momentary belief is made into PERMANENT salvation, but English has no like tenses, so they aren't translated.) No one who's ever ONCE believed in Christ loses salvation. It's impossible to lose, given the nature of the change salvation makes in your very nature: you get a human spirit, which makes you FOREVER a spiritual being like God is (Tit3:5, 2Cor5:17); you get God's Own Righteousness (2Cor5:21); you get Eternal Life (John 3, "everlasting" is a mistranslation), and at least 38 other components. All of these are God's-Nature related, so impossible to lose.
For example, if you are taught or you believe that what you do or are has merit before God, you won't believe in Christ SOLELY for salvation; you'd at most believe in Him partly, and in some 'merit' of you, partly. God won't accept "partly", because God is Infinite, and only what Christ did meets the Infinite Standard. So, once you realize that, you believe Christ alone provided the necessary payment so that you can live with God forever: so, you believe in Him. Conversely, if THROUGHOUT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE you NEVER ONCE believe, you do go to hell. For, then you have REFUSED the contract offer. Again, it's NOT about sin or being good: Christ already PAID for all sin, so any 'good' in us is too "short" (Rom3:23, again), so is irrelevant. So the ONLY question is do YOU believe in Christ, Jn16:9. Those who thus REJECT Christ's Payment on the Cross, instead want the contract to be ABOUT sin or being good; but GOD REJECTED all that, which is WHY there WAS a Cross in the first place. So those who reject what God accepted, go to hell -- and that's the only reason why anyone goes to hell.
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So don't add any other verb to "believe", unless you want to live in hell forever. No additives: no added verbs, no prayer you pray, no church blessing or baptising, no repenting, no invite Christ into your life, no "accept" Jesus, no confessing with your mouth. All those other verbs are things you can only do after you have believed; those other verbs don't save you. So if you add any verb to "believe", you are not saved. So only do "believe" now, John 3:16, 16:9, Gen15:6. Just BELIEVE, now. That way you'll never go to hell! For over 50 years my pastor harangued the congregation about how the Gospel is presented wrongly when adding verbs to BELIEVE; over and over he harped on how the added verbs negate belief. I was annoyed with my pastor for repeating this in nearly every Sunday class -- we had class 7 times a week, all on mp3, now -- on behalf of what he called the "nod-to-God" crowd. Well, he was right to repeat. I was wrong to be annoyed. Most Christians, who knows if they're even saved? Ask them what the Gospel is: if they add verbs, then maybe they never got saved?! Look on the internet yourself. Even famous pastors and evangelists fuzz up the Gospel or mangle it in their websites. So are even they saved? Why should you take a chance? JUST BELIEVE, as Jesus Himself said. Our Savior oughta know what the right verbs are, huh. So how is it that people mangle, slice, dice, and add to John 3:16, Acts 16:31, thereby negating the Gospel so no one gets saved? They all seem to be embarrassed that the human doesn't contribute something like repentence or commitment or a prayer, etc. As if the spiritually-dead unbeliever could do something. Corpses lie. They can't do anything a live person can do. Hence no one believing their substitute Gospels with all their added verbs requiring a spiritually alive person, is saved. See for yourself: search in dogpile or other search engine on "How do I get saved?" (use the quotes). Over 99% of the time you'll find the Gospel falsified as some four-step program of 1) repent (of sins), 2) believe, 3) invite/pray, 4) receive; with the emphasis on what YOU do; usually they give you a script they themselves invented, as a magic formula you cite to get saved. In some of these sites, the verses used to 'support' the four-step program are not even salvation verses, are egregiously mistranslated, and of course reflect the writer's bias that sin must be repented brother (nowhere does Bible say you must repent from your sins to be saved). [Search Bible carefully, and you'll find the word "repent", alright, but it's not talking about from sins -- "repent" is Greek verb metanoew, and means To Change Your Mind -- in salvation verses, it means Change Your Mind About Christ, as the context will prove.] For example,
A whole lot of dead people didn't evacuate before Hurricane Katrina, because they DIDN'T BELIEVE the authorities' warning. You can bet they prayed. You can bet they invited. You can bet they called, "Lord!" So you can bet they spoke His Name aloud. You can surely bet they repented. But those verbs didn't do them any good, huh: only if they BELIEVED, could they have escaped harm. One can only hope they believed in Him at least once in their lives, prior to their deaths! |
The purpose of these sites for a reader, is abnormal. The sites are to encourage thinking OUT Doctrine, not teach or parrot it. Thinking out, not selling someone that 'my' pastor or 'my' idea of Bible is right; hence the sites are nonsectarian in orientation. Therefore, the sites 'do' a lot of thinking out (which I personally needed anyway). The reader is presumed to already know enough MD to play with the material: like it, lump it, rage at it, smile at it, whatever, before the Lord. These facts may warrant your not reading 'my' material: only God knows if you should read at all; so, please first ask Him. On the other hand, if you are turning over concepts you heard in class and seek collateral thinking on the same topics, well.. maybe you should be reading stuff here. Again, only God will know. |
About "Thinking Out Loud": The "Thinking.." series is a deductive synthesis of about 30 years' study, so it's truly epic, and testable. Purpose: to see the coherence of God's Grand Design. The best way to see His Design is to try to describe it, as if one were taking an exam. Or, in this case, doing an accounting 'trial balance' workpaper, but written as a narrative drama. Principle: God Makes Sense. So every item in God's Nature, Design, Plan balances. So an errant view of His Word will not make sense, and thus stick out.
Theme: Angelic Conflict is the outline on which human history is based, and that Conflict is designed to reveal the Christ, Who is the Stone too Heavy to Lift. [Isa 53:5's Hebrew, "dakah" ("crushed" in NIV). My pastor taught this etymology as a stone which 'crushes' your strength, because it is too heavy to lift.] Series helps AUDIT 'slants' on Scripture. For, we are each accountable for how we used our individual spiritual lives at the Bema, 1Cor3. Not good, to be spiritual WorldCom... So, the webseries also covers today's "tough questions", along the way. Thank you "tzip", for your yr 2000 post about how folks can't tell God exists! Until then, my many prior drafts of this workpaper didn't balance. Cautions: go through the webseries IN ORDER. If you skip a section, you may get lost. The series presumes you've some familiarity with Scripture, or that you can use a Bible, Bible CD/'bot or concordance, and that you routinely use 1Jn1:9 as you read. So, the series 'flows' like a epic story: very fast-paced, densely-woven with wordplay and color-coding. Oh: don't mistake the use of common-day or even technical vocabulary for some New-Age drivel. The vocabulary is chosen to make meaning clear. Not pious-sounding words to please egos but leave comprehension, fuzzy. God gave us brains so we could get His Spiritual Brains: it's not magic, it's Learning. God's Way, via 1Jn1:9 use and study under your right pastor. NOTE: There are a lot more verses to support the stated interpretations than I list in this series, because you should do your own homework. So, use 1Jn1:9 (if needed) and ask the Father in the Son's name for the Holy Spirit to help you find/recall relevant verses. After all, it's His Book of the Son's Thinking: so if you also get the info from Him, then you know it's not some human's interpretation, á la 2Pet1:20-21. |
Because websites are written quickly and then later revisited and revised, you'l find some unintended grammar, style, and typographical errors remain. However, substantive upgrades or corrections in content are also always in progress, because I continually audit my faith for errors. See, God is Perfect, but I'm not. So I have zero qualms about reversing myself if I find I'm in error; hence there's NO guarantee that what is written here today, will be believed tomorrow. Only God Matters. Only His Word Matters. So if I screwed up on a belief, then.. fix it! That's what you do with a broken car, right? And isn't a broken (false) belief, even more important to fix? Would that we tended to our understanding of God, even as much as we care for our transport! But oh no.. people think it's disloyal or wrong to change belief? So they just stand pat on the errors. Yeah, and that's why the Bible's been so badly translated for centuries, no one fixing the old errors, but copying them into the alleged 'new' translations! Good thing GOD preserved the original-language texts so we can fix our belief errors, huh.
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who Sacrifice to Serve us Beautimous Bible! Anyone who chooses to work in Bible is a hero of the greatest magnitude. Not only is Bible our very food and drink, our lifeline, but serving it to us is the hardest job imaginable. Thousands upon thousands of sacrifices have been made just so we can even Get The Book Into Our Hands. Thousands upon thousands of painstaking hours counting the Words in that Book (to make sure the copy was accurate); to make up the lexicons; to cross-reference parallel or related passages; to analyse and translate or teach even one verse! It's beyond comprehension. So these the scholars, the teachers, the cataloguers, the etymologists, of every denomination and no denomination throughout the centuries.. this army of sacrificing folks! should get the greatest praise. They are the créme de la créme, the forward line of troops in this spiritual war of ours; a corporate campaign, and an individual battle, every hour of every day we breathe. All in preparation to See Him Forever. We owe them everything; for seeing Ta Panta, Him! Is Everything. So, think: if these our best and brightest can be outwitted by Satan&Co., such that translation and teaching errors of truly-egregious nature persist for centuries, in every denomination and no denomination: then we know for sure that only the Holy Spirit's power, works. No one can correctly fathom an iota of Bible, apart from His Power! Christ stayed Perfect, because He lived only on the Spirit's Power, Jn4:23-24! So must we, Eph5:18! All of my sites list many of these errors and bluntly, for that reason; like they teach you in West Point, your better comrades fell in battle, so make good on their fall! So use 1Jn1:9 like breathing; Think Study Ponder Test "the spirits", as John puts it, in 1Jn4. We cannot, absolutely cannot, do battle on our own! Sic transit gloria mundi, nos morituri mortem salutamus! Abba, Father! The Battle is the Lord's! |