If accepting Jesus is the only
way to salvation then everyone who has ever lived and not heard of Jesus were not or won't be saved.
Not exact matches
If you say that there is a «greater freedom» than this,
then you are also saying that Jesus lied when He said that His
way was the only
way to salvation (John 14:6).
The first step in
salvation is the confession that we are ALL sinners,
then to realize that we can NEVER earn our
way into Heaven regardless of how good we were, what or how much we did for others, how much we loved or were loved.
Then goes on
to say that if you don't believe the story, you basically will be punished for eternity because he is the best
way to salvation and it doesn't matter that none of it makes sense.
If our
salvation depends * in any
way * on our flesh — and in that I include behaviour, belief, anything we can * do * or * think * that will somehow negate our
salvation —
then what right do we have
to rejoice in our salvaiton?
I would say
to all preachers: If your preaching of
salvation has not been misunderstood in that
way,
then you had better examine your sermons again, and you had better make sure that you really are preaching the
salvation that is offered in the New Testament
to the ungodly,
to the sinner,
to those who are dead in trespasses and sins, and
to those who are enemies of God.
I would say
to all preachers: If your preaching of
salvation has been understood in that
way,
then you had better examine your sermons again, and you had better make sure that you really are preaching the
salvation that is offered in the New Testament
to the ungodly,
to the sinner,
to those who are alive in trespasses and sins, and
to those who are enemies of God.
If you do not believe Jesus is the only
way to heaven,
then, it makes it very easy
to deny that water baptism is essential for
salvation.
Justification in the sight of man by
way of sanctification or becoming ever more like Christ is a process which has the potential of saving others.; this by exemplifying through faith in action that faith alone in the blood of Christ alone saves you, this on the hope of attracting believers from faith
to faith in action and unbelievers first
to faith and
salvation and
then to faith in action, paying it forward, growing His Kingdom.
«I would say
to all preachers: If your preaching of
salvation has not been misunderstood in that
way,
then you had better examine your sermons again, and you had better make sure that you really are preaching the
salvation that is offered in the New Testament
to the ungodly...»
Well
then it's nice
to know that Sikhi (the Sikh
way of life) does not ever state that it's the only
way to salvation, or heaven, etc etc..
Yet if
salvation is genuinely social,
then there can be no place for a distinction that invites us
to assume, for example, that we have ownership over our bodies and possessions in a
way that is not under the discipline of the whole church.
The problem,
then, is
to find out how
to «plug into» the system in
ways that begin or accelerate the process of creating ideas, values, and goals adequate
to the critical tasks of world historical
salvation.
So if we think that the word «
salvation» refers
to «eternal life,»
then the clear teaching of Scripture is that receiving and keeping eternal life is conditional about believing the right things and behaving in the right
way.
Baptism opens up the
way of Christian life: it is completed by the sacrament of confirmation, and
then throughout the Christian's life he can receive God's forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation, and be fed by the Eucharist: «Priests are stewards of the means of
salvation, of the sacraments... not
to dispense them according
to their own will, but as humble servants for the good of the People of God» (Benedict XVI).14
If we could have made it
to heaven by living a good life
then Jesus would not have had
to die on the cross
to make a
way for us
to find
salvation?
Along the
way, we get flashbacks
to Sook - hee's former life: the murder of her jewel - thief father, her enslavement by his killer, her
salvation by a dashing young gangster (Shin Ha - kyun) who turns the girl into a killing machine and
then marries her.