ArchivedThe Trinity is selfish, irresponsible, and cowardly.Dear Masquerade Actually this is incorrect, and the Bible does not teach this at all. Overall my following discussion will show you what the Bible teaches regarding salvation. Christs blood is the ticket to heaven - made available to everyone as free gift of Gods grace, faith in Christ and His Sacrafice is our purchase of this ticket and enables us to possess this precious ticket, and our struggle (which is inevitable - no one is perfect) against sin to perform the will of God combined with genuine repentence in regards to those sins which we have fallen into due to our weakness, is the validation of this ticket in the last day. The first thing i will try explain to you, is what we mean by Christs blood atoning our sins, and secondly i will show you from the Bible the condition upon which faith in the sacrafice of Christ will be acceptable unto our Saviour on the last day. As a Muslim, you believe that you're salvation is dependent on the amount of good works you do (correct me of im wrong) i.e. if you're good works "out-weigh" your bad works, you will be saved. Let me tell you why in the Bible this idea is not valid according to the God of true justice. "The vast majority of good works are not good in the same way that sins are bad, and thus cannot--even in principle--cancel out any bad works. Whenever we sin, we violate the commands that God has given us; we fall short of His standards. In principle, therefore, if you wanted to pay for your violations, you would have to balance them out by EXCEEDING God's standards in other areas. Most of what we call good works, however, do not exceed God's standards, but are simply a matter of doing what commands." Faruq al-Dhimmi Basically, as Paul under the inspiration of God says in Romans "all men fall short of the glory of God" i.e. we are all INEVITABLY sinners, and our human nature which is weak inevitably allows us to fall into sin, no matter how hard we try, because this is the weak nature we inherited from our father Adam who was created without corruption, but then became corrupt once he fell to the temptation of Satan. "Another reason that our own good works cannot save us is that even the smallest sin is serious beyond reckoning. The seriousness of a sin is determined not only by the command that has been broken, but by the One Who gave the command." Faruq al-Dhimmi God is of perfect holiness, even the smallest since defiles us, and is a great insult and offense to the All-Holy God who commanded us against such things. Therefore true Justice would entail, that since our "good works" will never be a valid justification for our "bad works", we must pay the price to which we are in debt to God. Because God is Just, being the Just God that He is, means He cannot accept us unto Himself in such a condition when we rebel against Him, no matter how many good things we do after, because God is so Holy that even the slightest sin is the greatest offense to the Almighty Creator. It is for this weak human nature which gives us the inevitable tendency to sin, that God suffered for. He payed the price for our rebellion with his blood, and that is how he renewed salvation for mankind. "Does this mean that those justified by grace can sin as much as they want? Romans 6:1-2 says, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?" 1 Thess. 4:7 says, "God has called us not for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification." The Scriptures teach us that we are to live holy lives and avoid sin (Col. 1:5-11). Just because we are saved and eternally justified before God (John 10:28), that is no excuse to continue in the sin from which we were saved. Of course, we all sin (1 John 1:8). But the war between the saved and his sin is continuous (Rom. 7:14-20) and it won't be until the return of Jesus that we will be delivered from this body of death (Rom. 7:24). To continually seek sin and use God's grace to excuse it later is to trample the blood of Christ underfoot (Heb. 10:29) and to reveal the person's true sinful, unsaved nature (1 John 2:4; 2:19). (Other verses worth checking out are: Heb. 12:14; 1 Pet. 1:14-16; and 1 Pet. 2:21-22.)" Matt Slick In one sentence what we are saying is, that to say that we can save ourselves with our own good works is an insult to God, our good deeds are but filthy rags to God (Isaiah 64:6). Our salvation is thus attained by the perfect sacrafice of the unblemished lamb - Jesus Christ our Lord and God. The true Christian believer struggles with sin for perfection - but that perfection is unattainable - sin is inevitable - it is for this weak nature Christ died. Christ did not come to die for unrepentent evil. In saying this, an unrepentent sinner who believes in Christ will not be justified in the last day. Christ made many stern warnings for us: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." If someones faith is righteous, his actions will reflect his faith, and the Lords teachings will be evident in his lifestyle - however as i will emphasise again, due to our weak human nature, we all inevitably fall into sin (no one is perfect), so its is this weakness which the true believer struggles with that Christ our Lord died for. Consider the parable of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25. All 10 virgins were awaiting the bridegroom (which represents Christ) i.e. all had the faith that he was to come (otherwise they wouldnt all have been awaiting him). However 5 were wise and 5 were foolish. The wise carried their lamps and prepared with them some oil, the foolish had their lamps but did not take any oil. When the bridegroom came (referring to Christs second coming which will come unexpectedly) the foolish were not prepared and they had to go out and buy some oil, when they came back the door of the wedding banquet (representing paradise) was shut. "Later the others (the foolish) also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!' "But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.' The unpreparedness of the foolish virgins represents us who are careless about our lives, and their lack of oil, represents our lack of fruits and deeds. But again i emphasise although the wise virgins were prepared for Christ and had their lamps full of oil and prepared extra oil, theyre preparedness and goodness wasnt their ticket into the banquet (because such virtues would never be enough for such a grand and honoured acceptance to the banquet), rather the blood of Christ was their ticket. The foolish virgins also had this ticket, but they invalidated it and thus were not accepted, the Lord replied "I do not know you" - The Lord does not know unrepentent sinners, and without repentence our ticket is not valid. Luke 13:5 "...but unless you repent you will all likewise perish." Repentence is not merely feeling a genuine guilt for your sin, but in addition if one genuinly feels sorry for what he has done, he makes a conscious effort to fight this sin to perfrom the will of God. Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast." I could go on more on this issue and show you more examples from the Bible especially parables of Christ that show that evil can invalidate this ticket Christ purchased for us all, but i'll leave it at this for now. Peace. |
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