Hodges wrote, «The simple truth is that Jesus can be
believed for eternal salvation apart from any detailed knowledge of what He did to provide it.»
Not exact matches
To
believe in Jesus
for your
salvation and to have a part in His everlasting Kingdom where sin, death, sorrow, pain, despair, oppression do not exist, and in this life have a moral code that includes loving everyone though not participating in sin and have that hope of
eternal life.
The point is this: Stop thinking that when you share the Four Spiritual Laws, or the Romans Road, or the plan of
salvation, or given an altar call, or invite someone to
believe in Jesus
for eternal life, or any of the other myriad of things that Christians today call «sharing the gospel,» stop thinking that you have actually shared the Gospel.
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.
The Israelites (a type
for Christians) were saved out of Egypt (the world) and lost their
salvation (
eternal life) in the desert because they stopped
believing.
Assurance of
salvation is the sure knowledge that I have
eternal life because Jesus guarantees it to everyone who simply
believes in Him
for it.
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.
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.
She
believed in Jesus
for eternal life, and He gave it to her, and full and free forgiveness came along as part of that
salvation package.
When God elects a sinner to
eternal life (many are called but few are chosen) light floods in and utterly destroys the darkness «
for it the power of God unto
salvation to everyone who
believes».
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.
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?
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.
Antonio, judging by your reply, it sounds that you
believe I am teaching a «false gospel» (if you even use the word «gospel»
for the message of
salvation anymore) because I
believe that to receive
eternal life, a person must
believe in a «Jesus» who is God (John 8:24, 58) and man (1John 4:2; 2John 7) who died
for his sins and rose again (1Cor.
a) Hodges has reduced what must be
believed for salvation to one element:
Believing Jesus is the Giver of
eternal life (paraphrased).