RE: Will Jesus return on a white horse?
January 3, 2013 at 2:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2013 at 2:27 pm by Undeceived.)
(January 3, 2013 at 9:04 am)RichardP Wrote: If you want to enter life, obey the commandments." 18 "Which ones?" the man inquired. Jesus replied, " 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19 honor your father and mother,' and 'love your neighbor as yourself.' "
But the Christians argue that the Ten Commandments were done away with when Jesus was crucified -- and after his death you only had to "believe" to be saved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And they like to focus on Paul -- who changed what Jesus had taught, and started Christianity.
They were not "done away with." Jesus in Mat. 5:17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." According to scripture, Jesus doesn't change the laws, he sums them up with one word: love.
Mat. 22:37-40: "'Jesus replied: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.'” Commandments 1-4 have to do with loving God, commandments 5-10 have to do with loving your neighbor.
(January 3, 2013 at 9:04 am)RichardP Wrote: So to get around what Jesus had taught they "translate" what he said to make it mean what they want. They will take the cases where Jesus taught the Ten Commandments and argue that he didn't really mean that they had to keep them -- they argue that they just have to "try" to keep them.
Where does it say that salvation is obtained through "trying"? Salvation is obtained through faith in God's death on behalf of our sins, "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). We can't keep every commandment every second of our life--that is the fact of the matter, not some Christian's excuse. We are doomed... unless someone righteous makes us righteous. As Romans 3 explains, "Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin. But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe."
(January 3, 2013 at 9:04 am)RichardP Wrote: And they argue that Paul -- who came after Jesus's death -- taught that they would be saved by "faith" and not by "deed".Where does Jesus teach salvation by deed?
In Mark 5:34 he says "Your faith has healed you."
Luke 7:50: "Your faith has saved you."
Matthew 9:29 "According to your faith let it be done to you."
Luke 5:20 "When Jesus saw their faith, he said, 'Friend, your sins are forgiven.'"
John 14:1: "Believe in God, believe also in me."
John 14:6: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
John 11:25: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies"
John 3:16: "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
More:
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?sea...spanend=50
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?sea...spanend=50
Please show me the verses where Jesus preaches salvation through works. Are there any instances where Jesus acts kindly toward someone because they did something for him?
