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  1. mailmandan

    Happy Birthday mailmandan

    Thank you! :)
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    That brings us back to 1 Corinthians 2:11-14.
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    Anyone can twist the scriptures to try and make them fit their pet doctrines. The road that leads to life is narrow and few find it because Jesus Christ is the only way (John 3:15,16,18; 10:9; 14:6) and few by faith are trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. (Romans 3:24-26; 4:5-6...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    Even though not everyone will agree on everything, those verses get to the heart of the reason why certain people understand correctly and others do not understand, particularly when it comes to essential Christian doctrine where our salvation depends on it.
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    1 Corinthians 2:11 - For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    A free gift must still be received and receiving it by faith does not mean that we earned the gift and it also does not change the fact that Christ saves us through faith based on the merits of His finished work of redemption alone (Romans 3:24-26) and not based on the merits of our works...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    That's where drawing and enabling comes in (John 6:44, 65) and once that is done, people then can make their choice. (John 3:18)
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    So, free will or fatalistic determination?
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    A gift does not mean fatalistic determination and a gift must be received. I believe that salvation is the gift in Ephesians 2:8 - For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    According to scripture it is enough because Jesus and His death, burial and resurrection is enough. (Romans 3:22-26) John 3:15 - that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    Believe what their whole life? Drawing and enabling is God stepping in (John 6:44, 65) and God doesn't believe for us. We must choose to believe (John 3:18)
  12. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    There is a difference between mere "mental assent" belief (James 2:19) and saving belief (Acts 16:31) which is saving faith. (Romans 3:22-26)
  13. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    Although it is our responsibility to choose to believe in Christ unto salvation and we will be held accountable for unbelief, (John 3:18) saving belief in Christ is never exclusively a matter of human decision. Unless the Father draws us (John 6:44) and enables us (John 6:65), we would never...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    No, Christ is my Savior. Through faith I simply received the free gift of eternal life. (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8,9)
  15. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    He saved me through my personal faith in Him. 1 Peter 1:9 - receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
  16. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    Christ's death, burial and resurrection is the actual means of our salvation and faith is the instrumental means by which we obtain salvation.
  17. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    Jesus Christ saves us through faith based on the merits of His finished work of redemption "alone" and not based on the merits of our works. (Romans 3:24-26)
  18. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    It accomplished victory over sin and death and provided eternal life for believers. (John 3:18) My faith not only believes that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ "happened" but also trusts in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of my...
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    Salvation not based on our merit

    The truth is not hard to understand. It's just hard for a lot people to accept.
  20. mailmandan

    Salvation not based on our merit

    Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. ✝️ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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