Its a hot topic when you talk about the particulars of salvation though grace by faith. One one extreme, you have the folks that believe that if you, at any time in you life, called upon Jesus as Lord of your life and receive salvation then it is yours forever - no matter what. Even if you decide at some point you want to become a serial killer or take up an alternate religion. On the other extreme you have salvation as a free gift, but to redeem it, you must turn from your life of sin and love as God loves and if you fulfill these requirements to the day of judgement, then you will be saved from eternal punishment.
I will be posting scripture as I find it that I feel deals with this topic. Perhaps, one day, I will be able to make a firm conclusion from these findings.
Matt 18
32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
This is before Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. Did He mean to say that this is how it is, or how it will be?
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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