who needs a Savior?

[carolineh]

Who needs a Savior when you can work your way into a right relationship with God through good deeds and acts of love? Right? How many good deeds would it take to get into a right relationship with the God of all goodness? It would take an infinite number without ever once failing...is anyone capable of that...YES Jesus was...anybody else? NO..we all fail...we all sin.
You cannot work your way into a right relationship with God..Once you are in a right relationship with God through Jesus alone can you show that you are in that right relationship by bearing good fruit..showing God's love, mercy, kindness and goodness...You cannot earn your salvation...you must turn to the Savior who is Jesus who is God, in love and turn from your sins in order to receive His free gift of salvation..salvation that He accomplished when He received the punishment that we deserve when He died on the cross and then rose from death to life so that we could receive God's forgiveness for our sins.
All other religions that are not based on the saving work of Jesus teach that you can work your way into a right relationship with God or a higher power...being sinners we fail to do that so ONLY through Jesus can you become reconnected to God.
Ask yourself...am I in a right relationship with God...am I bearing good fruit..others that say they are christians and in a right relationship with God, are they bearing good fruit or bad fruit in their lives? The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience and self control

 

[Tommy4Christ]

Yes, its not about outward dead works that saves us, many will also say obedience and heart purity will not save you either, so now you do nothing, just say a little prayer, such as the Billy Graham sinners prayer, and try to live a clean life, without doing your first works, thus you get saved still a wretched sinner, trampling on the blood of Christ every time you fall into willful, deliberate sins you should have repented of before mercy can be given!

Grace not to be abused!​

Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Heb 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
The grace of God is highly misused in the system today, because the underlying foundation of the gospel is in great error and backwards! They have grace defined as unmerited favor, or God’s riches at Christ’s expense, which boils down to God winking at their sin and disobedience.
It all comes from the false original sin message, which came from paganism, and not the word of God, so now the grace of God is translated into what it has become today, a covering for sin, or an offset for the sin nature.
Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
But the word is clear, so there must be more to the meaning of grace that meets the eye! And there is, which then harmonizes with the rest of scripture.
Grace as taught in the Bible and to the early saints was a powerful gift from God! It’s a means where the sinner becomes acceptable to God, and receives His mercy and forgiveness of his past sins, because the grace of God isn’t passive or already done and thus becomes a pass for sin and disobedience.
It teaches us something:
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
This grace actually commands us to do something, which is to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, then live right before God, which isn’t being self-righteous, but just doing what is right by obeying His commands which are not a burden to those who love Him and the truth!
Tommy