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Then I am right: works matter. I remember what Jesus said to this man who was healed by him : Joh 5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you." That has to do with works, doesn't it?

I just don't think I can declare saved myself without fighting for my salvation. I see this way is how christians did in the first century. I would never think that my salvation depends on how some persons interpret the Scriptures. It is Jesus who will declare people saved or not, and he himself...

Rom 13:11 (ESV) Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let...

When someone thinks he already have been saved for his own faith, it is him, himself, who is saving himself .. it is not his faith ... That person is declaring himself saved. But is he declared saved by Jesus?

Not by what we do, but not without doing what we have to. Jas 2:26 (ESV) For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

I find this words of Paul very interesting: Php 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let...

I'm working on my salvation ... I'm glad some people think they already gained it ... How did they that? I don't know how they did it. I do prefer stay working on mine. ;)

Some comments that I read feel as if the person who makes them believe that they can force God to save them because of their faith ... as if they conditioned God, because of their own way of understanding things. It is not we who decide whether we are saved or not ... What we have to do is to...

Luk 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? It is very easy to call Jesus as Lord. Some people think that's enough.

That's something to think about. It was said of a nation that finally lost all God's favor after been saved so many times ... and be punished for so many times that they rebelled against God in the things they did. PD: Sorry for my English ... It is not my first language.

I don't think Jesus was talking about salvation of the physical body ... He was talking about the last day. The only way we can understand salvation is at the moment of the judgement. Why is it that there are so many people who believe that salvation is something they can grasp as if it were an...

The context of Jesus' words is clear to me ... I think is clear for anyone. Do I need to go somewhere else to understand a passage that is completely understandable?

Rev 14:13 (ESV) And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Blessed indeed," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!" What will happen if some people have not works, labors, deeds to...

I think what Jesus said was about general salvation. Not need to change the meaning of his words.

Thanks for the detail, TDW ... Did you notice that here: Mat 24:13 (ESV) But the one who endures to the end will be saved. Jesus uses "will be saved" in future tense?

It was said TO PAUL: “My grace is sufficient for you". I don't think that applies to everybody, as neither what was told about him before: Act 9:16 (ESV) For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." Living without works is not suffering at all. Jesus talked about...

Thanks LeastAmongMany. The point is I'd never read on the Scriptures about any disciple of Jesus saying that he was already saved. Paul, the inspired writer of more that the half of the NT, was fighting hard for his own salvation all the time. How is that, that so many people today think they...

A person can't loose what that person doesn't have. Nobody is been saved YET ... Salvation will come at the moment of the judgement. A lot of people who have the name of Christ all the time on their mouth, will get something very different of what they thought they would (Mat 7:21-23) Mat 24:13...

Bible repetedly says that works don't bring any salvation ... BUT Bible repetedly says that without works nobody can be saved. There's not need to separate both of them: "grace" and works. I think people who exagerate one aspect is just because that person is not living according to the other...

Gen 19:1 (ESV) The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth 2 and said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet...