Search results

Well his words seem pretty straight forward. You are putting your interpretation on "what Jesus really means here when he says this". If you want to interpret it that why that is fine. It isn't a plain, obvious truth you are defining however, you are imparting some opinion of trying to read...

You aren't "correcting" anything, you've only agreed with me. Thank you.

"For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved." Believe with your heart, confess with your mouth. The thief being crucified for crimes next to Jesus did nothing but say "“Do you not fear God, since you are...

I'm getting in way late on this one but here go.... For salvation....100% faith. Once you are saved and want to serve the Lord in a pleasing way it's probably about 50/50. "Faith without works is dead". So God wants you to serve him and to love your neighbors and love and serve your fellow...

It can be interpreted that way. A literal exact description or is it just a farming metaphor of getting rid of the bad and keeping the good, a metaphor the people would understand? No way to know for sure. Also chaff would burn up and be gone. Even if the fire continues. Would the sinner be...

Well someone else was just asking about divorce on another thread and I just copied Jesus's answer to divorce: "But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." It sounds...

Well Jesus said: "But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery." He also said "That which God has joined together let no man put asunder. So based on Jesus's words he...

I'd say we don't know 100% exactly what "hell" will be like. So, the concept many have is that hell is being thrown into a lake of fire and "burning" or feeling agonizing burns forever. I'm guessing this is the view you are reacting to? Well, I'd say this view on hell might not be accurate and...