(July 16, 2013 at 3:02 am)Ryantology Wrote:Quote:I accept what it says and what is offered through it by Christ, salvation.
In other words, you believe that you have to save your own skin from hell you're told you deserve. It's the indisputably and absolutely self-centered impetus driving virtually every Christian on earth.
Not true. Good deeds are a response to faith. We do them, not just because God commanded us to or that God will reward them, but because we are grateful for what God has done. Doing charitable works helps us to grow in virtue. One cannot say one is kind unless one does kind acts. Same for patience, prudence, justice, etc. You really can't say you have faith in God and then not do what He commanded.
