How can a person be right with God?

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MikeHenderson

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Its by Sola Fide! By Faith alone we are made right with God.

We enter into a right relationship with God by Faith only. We are Justified by Faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. Faith that is alone is not faith in union with Christ. Union with Jesus Christ makes His perfection and power ours through Faith, and in union with Jesus, Faith is living and active.
 
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KenAllan

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So very true.

Today too many false prophets teach its by our Works also that makes us right with God. Our good works are because we are justified and because we have received our Salvation.

Don't misunderstand what i'm saying. We need to receive Salvation and have Good works to enter into Heaven. but not works working for our Salvation.
 
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Because of our faith in Jesus the love of God will be shown thru us. Because this love is shown thru us we will end up "doing good works". These good works are a display of our faith not a thing that will save us. If good works are not displayed by our faith then we should have a better look at our faith. Is our faith from God or is our faith something we just "want to have". If our faith, which is given us by God, is the faith from God then we will end up showing our faith in our actions. Augustine is acredited as saying "love God and do what you want". This is to say if we truly have faith that is from God then it will be displayed by our actions. If our actions are contrary to what God would have us do then, again, we must take a look at our faith.
 
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MikeHenderson said:
Its by Sola Fide! By Faith alone we are made right with God.

We enter into a right relationship with God by Faith only. We are Justified by Faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. Faith that is alone is not faith in union with Christ. Union with Jesus Christ makes His perfection and power ours through Faith, and in union with Jesus, Faith is living and active.
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1 Cor. 13:13 [FONT=&quot]So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.[/FONT]
 
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MikeHenderson said:
Its by Sola Fide! By Faith alone we are made right with God.

We enter into a right relationship with God by Faith only. We are Justified by Faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. Faith that is alone is not faith in union with Christ. Union with Jesus Christ makes His perfection and power ours through Faith, and in union with Jesus, Faith is living and active.
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I think the Lord would like us to obey his commandments.
 
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I agree with all the comments on this thread and let us not have dead faith as in the book of James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Or when Paul talks about faith without love in I Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. How can a person be right with God put your faith in Lord Jesus Christ build your relationship with Him and trust His ways not your own ways nor anyone else's. Love Him freely and truthfully a genuine love for Christ and not as religious burden as the Pharisees put on people being totally heartless themselves vain in worship not knowing love because they don't know God. Why would you not want to give that love back to God or anyone else? I know I love Him because He loved me first I John 4:19. Truly open your heart to Jesus love Him first staying true to your true first love and try not depart from Him like church of Ephesus in Revelations Chapter 2. When you sin come to Jesus in prayer and repent with a honest heart putting your faith in Him trusting the one you love. Oh how great the two greatest commandments are! Matthew 22 37-40 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [SUP]38 [/SUP]This is the first and great commandment. [SUP]39 [/SUP]And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [SUP]40 [/SUP]On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Oh how great the love Jesus Christ has for us. Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Jesus perfectly honored the Father in that commandment and all the rest from birth all the way to His death on the cross doing the Fathers will perfectly John 6:38-39 because Jesus is perfect and without any sin and not a unruly child like Deuteronomy 21:18-21. Jesus said in John 15 12:13 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Lord Jesus laid his life down and died on the cross can anyone not see how much LOVE is there? The two greatest commandments Jesus spoke in Matthew 22 are in the Law Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18 for indeed these are the two greatest. If you know not love you know not God. I John 4:8. God is pleased in a servant when that servant loves him and if you love him you will be faithful to the Lord. Love the Lord you trust and trust the Lord you love and his name is above all names Jesus Christ. I agree with what Depleted said in post #4 1 Cor. 13:13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
 
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Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
 
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ISA. 66:2.
For all those things hath Mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith The LORD:
but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My Word.
 
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you have to get right before your left.;)
 
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Through the shed blood of Christ :D
 
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Like the verse depleted quoted, the truth. If you love the truth then your hope in the Holy Ghost will perfect you.
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
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MikeHenderson said:
Its by Sola Fide! By Faith alone we are made right with God.

We enter into a right relationship with God by Faith only. We are Justified by Faith alone, but not by faith that is alone. Faith that is alone is not faith in union with Christ. Union with Jesus Christ makes His perfection and power ours through Faith, and in union with Jesus, Faith is living and active.
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I think you are saying,we are made righteous because GOD gave us grace and this grace Is accessed through faith and we are saved.

Then If we remain alive In this world,we will show our faith by our works.

But as far as salvation goes,Immediately upon being saved,our spirit Is made perfect and sealed and If we were to die before we were able to do a good work,we would still be heaven bound.
 
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KenAllan said:
So very true.We need to receive Salvation and have Good works to enter into Heaven. but not works working for our Salvation.
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The last sentence Is correct but the first part Is errant,we don't have to have good physical works to go to heaven.


Salvation Is by grace alone throuh faith alone.
 
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after conversion, after our 'past sins' have been wiped clean, we start on our brand new journey
with our Lord and Saviour, our 'Intecessor' Who is sitting on the right hand of God to intercede for us
when the Holy Spirit convicts us of betraying our Master -
everything we have said and done will come up before the Lord God in the Day of Judgment,
and we will be judged and appointed to the place that He has prepared for us, according to our behavior,
and heartfelt repentance/over-coming and our duties that we have performed for His name's sake...
 
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