John 3:16 (belief)

@rajk999 said
This is a good example of why people dont bother communicating with you. You make a statement and your supporting references do not support your statement..

Really, if you took the time to read them you would see even your thoughts can cause you to sin, Jesus tells us to be perfect, our righteousness must be better than the Scribes and Pharisees or you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus raised the bar to enter into God's Kingdom He didn't lower it.

If you continue in Matthew you will see what He says about entering into the Kingdom of God, many are going to destruction and only a few find the way, the hard way that leads to life. You continue to miss the point, not because it wasn't told to you, but you refuse to see.

Matthew 7:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV)
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

@kellyjay said
Really, if you took the time to read them you would see even your thoughts can cause you to sin, Jesus tells us to be perfect, our righteousness must be better than the Scribes and Pharisees or you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus raised the bar to enter into God's Kingdom He didn't lower it.

If you continue in Matthew you will see what He says about enterin ...[text shortened]... many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

You are a blabbermouth - talking a bunch of nonsense. Maybe in your church or in your social group people agree with your nonsense. There is nowhere Jesus said people cannot follow his commandments or be good enough to be righteous. NOWHERE. So you are run your mouth and talk foolishness all you like. Following commandments is good enough for Jesus Christ. According to Christ, that makes a man righteous. You can keep your Satanic doctrine to yourself.

@rajk999 said
You are a blabbermouth - talking a bunch of nonsense. Maybe in your church or in your social group people agree with your nonsense. There is nowhere Jesus said people cannot follow his commandments or be good enough to be righteous. NOWHERE. So you are run your mouth and talk foolishness all you like. Following commandments is good enough for Jesus Christ. According to Christ, that makes a man righteous. You can keep your Satanic doctrine to yourself.

I'm telling you only through Jesus Christ can we be saved, period! Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! That is not saying Jesus tells us the way, He personifies it, He being God is the Way, our Savior who redeems us, because of what He did for us while we were yet sinners. Taking on our sins becoming sin for us so we can be forgiven. So we will stand before Jesus on judgment day to judge our works, but if we don't know Him here now we will stand in our sins hearing the words, "depart from me I never knew you".

He is the Truth there is no other, there are many who have made claims such as yourself suggesting the Holy Spirit will be in those that deny Christ. In Him we have life, as He shares Himself in us giving us life. We are saved due to our savior not the works we do, our works will be judged no doubt about it, and if you claim His name, claim you believe in Him, and yet don't love God or your fellow man you are not obeying Him.

You have never seen me say we are not to follow God's commandments, and you have never seen me say we are not to do good works either, suggesting I have said such things is false! If God isn't in your life, you are not walking in the Spirit instead you are walking in the flesh and no one doing that can please God.

John 4:23
But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

@kellyjay said
I'm telling you only through Jesus Christ can we be saved, period! Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! That is not saying Jesus tells us the way, He personifies it, He being God is the Way, our Savior who redeems us, because of what He did for us while we were yet sinners. Taking on our sins becoming sin for us so we can be forgiven. So we will stand before Jesus on j ...[text shortened]... s will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Did Rehab the harlot know Jesus?

@rajk999 said
Did Rehab the harlot know Jesus?

Who?

@rajk999 said
Did Rehab the harlot know Jesus?

I have no idea who you are talking about, but sinners are getting in, not because of the works they did, but they believed.

Matthew 21:30-32 English Standard Version (ESV)
And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

@kellyjay said
I have no idea who you are talking about, but sinners are getting in, not because of the works they did, but they believed.

Matthew 21:30-32 English Standard Version (ESV)
And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to ...[text shortened]... tes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

Change their minds and believe is half the story. What counts is their good works and righteousness. It is useless to profess that you believe and then do ,nothing or continue with your old life.

Those who profess nothing and do good works are miles ahead of those who just talk.

@rajk999 said
Change their minds and believe is half the story. What counts is their good works and righteousness. It is useless to profess that you believe and then do ,nothing or continue with your old life.

Those who profess nothing and do good works are miles ahead of those who just talk.

I agree, we must repent, we must be born again. You cannot continue in your old life if you repent and are born again because you die to your old life, you have become a new creature in Christ. Those who avoid God it doesn't matter what works they do, you must be born again, those that avoid God and do good works, we are saved by faith through grace and that not of ourselves it is a gift of God.

The point is we must encounter God in the here and now, and nothing we can bring to Him will force Him to act favorably to us. Part of all of this is He first loved us, God made the first move towards us. If we trust what He did, our lives will be completely different. It isn't make our lives good enough so that God trusts us, that isn't good enough, and an insult to the Son of God who died to save us from our sins. Those who profess nothing and do good works are just as dead as those who profess God and don't change their lives. Those two in my opinion are the two sides of not good enough history of man, believe and ignore, or work and no faith or belief.

@kellyjay said
I agree, we must repent, we must be born again. You cannot continue in your old life if you repent and are born again because you die to your old life, you have become a new creature in Christ. Those who avoid God it doesn't matter what works they do, you must be born again, those that avoid God and do good works, we are saved by faith through grace and that not of ourselves ...[text shortened]... the two sides of not good enough history of man, believe and ignore, or work and no faith or belief.

Did Rehab the harlot know any of that?

@rajk999 said
Did Rehab the harlot know any of that?

She was before Jesus' time on earth, so I imagine when the dead found out she did too.

@rajk999 said
Did Rehab the harlot know any of that?

Colossians 1:25-27 English Standard Version (ESV)
of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

God kept this a mystery until the time was right which is Christ in us the hope of glory.

@kellyjay said
Colossians 1:25-27 English Standard Version (ESV)
of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known, the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints. To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is C ...[text shortened]... glory.

God kept this a mystery until the time was right which is Christ in us the hope of glory.

You can know all the worlds greatest mysteries and know everything about Christ and do the greatest miracles and have the greatest faith that moves mountains and still be cast out of the kingdom of God. It's all mouth worship.

The ones who enter the kingdom of God are described in Matt 25. But since you dont have the Spirit of Christ you are blind to the truth

@rajk999 said
You can know all the worlds greatest mysteries and know everything about Christ and do the greatest miracles and have the greatest faith that moves mountains and still be cast out of the kingdom of God. It's all mouth worship.

The ones who enter the kingdom of God are described in Matt 25. But since you dont have the Spirit of Christ you are blind to the truth

As I said without God doing religious acts are meaningless, you are confirming what I have said. It is also true if you deny Him, He will deny you! So claiming the Spirit of God who is in complete harmony with Jesus could now be in someone who denies Jesus Christ, is not true, no matter who many times with your mouth you say that! When you say that an Atheist can have the Holy Spirit in them with your mouth, you reveal you know nothing and your judgment is worthless, even damning people who follow your doctrine.

If you are not denying yourself, picking up your cross and following Him, you are not changed and have not repented of your old life.

Matthew 10:32-34 English Standard Version (ESV)
So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Mark 8:34
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

@kellyjay said
You believe people can be righteous enough on their own to enter God's Kingdom?

You think the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are God, in complete harmony with each other?

And KJ continues to avoid addressing the issue and underscores the shamelessness he's been exhibiting since page 6.

@thinkofone said
And KJ continues to avoid addressing the issue and underscores the shamelessness he's been exhibiting since page 6.

For one who cannot define what he means when questioned, your the poster child for being hypocritical calling out others for the very thing you are known for. When your questions get addressed directly you hide behind one complaint or another, when you get questioned you hide behind one complaint or another. You are almost so bad I think many here could pretty much tell what dodge your about use to avoid owning up to an answer, your so predicable. I think if you were not permitted to insult people's intelligence you would more than likely have nothing new to say here, and would more than likely stop coming since that seems to be the only thing you really do, you don't add much to anything here only complain.