He requires repentance, the stoppage of sinning as a regular practice, and faith in
Christ for eternal salvation.
Not exact matches
I will be praying
for Kerry Egan, that she is saved, because with such a lack of concern
for someones
eternal soul I would question her
salvation ever being real, but if she is saved, then she will have to stand before a Holy God one day at the judgement seat of
Christ and give an account of what she has done
for Him, I pray that she may yet grab this opportunity she has to change the course of so many souls, before its too late!
First, the person may stop resisting, and submit to what the Holy Spirit is saying, and so, having understood that they are a sinner and in need of
salvation because judgment is coming, they will believe in Jesus
Christ for eternal life.
Even if he is a Christian,
for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus
Christ, God, miracles,
salvation, and
eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.
With astonishing boldness, Francis immediately announced the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to the Sultan, while emphasising that his own concern was
for the
eternal salvation of the Muslim leader, who was apparently deeply moved by the Holy Man's courage, enthusiasm, and steadfastness.
It is good news that God is offering us
salvation, that God is offering
eternal life to all who simply believe in Jesus
Christ for it.
A study of Beliefs That Count will provide a fine opportunity
for rethinking our basic Christian beliefs in regard to such doctrines as God, Jesus
Christ, the Holy Spirit, man, the Bible, the meaning of sin and
salvation, the kingdom of God, and
eternal life.
The good news is, that
Christ came to planet earth as an atonement of sins,
for all those that believe in Him and have accepted His plan of
salvation to
eternal life.
Where the Bible only speaks about laying down this life
for Christ, in order to receive peace and
eternal salvation.
With all true Christians, Baptists profess loyalty to Jesus
Christ the Lord, the
eternal Son of the heavenly Father who «
for us and our
salvation» became man.
I was set free in the gospel of grace and in looking
for a Church home, I too was confronted with
eternal salvation by the Church Of
Christ.
It was an event in the history of
salvation, in the realm of eternity..., in an analogous way, history comes to an end in the religious experience of any Christian «who is in
Christ»...
For although the advent of
Christ is an historical event which happened «once» in the past, it is, at the same time, an
eternal event which occurs again and again in the soul of any Christian.»
Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness)
for which one must pray
for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because
Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's
eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth
for the devil or
for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «
salvation of the Church»).41
Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864) accordingly condemned the proposition: «We should at least have good hopes
for the
eternal salvation of those who are in no way in the true Church of
Christ.»
The history of
salvation as it consummates in
Christ, must be presented as an organic whole, in which «all things do hold together» in
Christ» (Col. 1:17) and in which the personal, authoritative revelation of a personal and transcendent God comes to its fulness in the Incarnation of God, personally in the
Eternal Word, made esh
for us men, and
for our
salvation.
The one reference that didn't work
for me was 2 Timothy 2:10 (NIV) «Therefore I endure everything
for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the
salvation that is in
Christ Jesus, with
eternal glory.»
If Bell's book is not an argument
for universalism, and that Bell's rhetorical questions are not meant to ridicule the traditional beliefs of
eternal conscious suffering, penal substitutionary atonement, and
salvation by faith alone in
Christ alone, then the marketing mechanism is a paradigm example of what Harry Frankfurt has defined as «bull ****.»
Ask a Mormon if faith alone in Jesus
Christ is sufficient
for eternal salvation.
If they agree that faith alone in Jesus
Christ is sufficient
for eternal salvation then tell them that they are either divergent from stated Mormon precepts or that they don't really understand what they're «supposed» to believe.
For much of Christian history believers affirmed that apart from
Christ there is no
salvation, and they understood this to mean that those who did not have faith in
Christ were condemned to
eternal torments.
John's Gospel is abundantly clear, as are many passages within other NT books that
for eternal salvation all a man must do is trust in (believe on) the Lord Jesus
Christ for salvation.
If there is
salvation only
for those who believe in
Christ, as «extreme Christians» affirm, and
salvation for them means
eternal life in God, then what will be the fate of the great majority of the people of Asia, or more than two - thirds of the human race?
Article 19 bears quoting in full: Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus
Christ, while living among men, really did and taught
for their
eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).
Rather, assuming that we agree with your premise — that people who believe these things remain unsaved — there is another entirely viable option: that it is not sufficient to believe these things apart from the promise of
eternal life by faith alone in
Christ, but that these these are indeed essential elements of the gospel that must be believed
for salvation.
That I, with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus
Christ; who with His precious blood has fully satisfied
for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil; and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; yea, that all things must be subservient to my
salvation, wherefore by His Holy Spirit He also assures me of
eternal life, and makes me heartily willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto Him.