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Originally Posted by NewbieMisfits
we just don't believe everyones different views on the ease of achieving salvation.... what's that mean, were just different (misfits), and still have much to learn for ourselves.  |
Ease of achieving salvation?
On the one hand, he that has ceased from HIS OWN WORKS enters into rest.
On the other hand, STRIVE TO ENTER IN AT THE STRAIGHT GATE.
It's so easy it's hard for most (myself included).
No man shall be justified by works, for all of us have already been condemned by the law of God as sinners (lawbreakers).
Thus we must find another way to be justified. And thus God gives GRACE (pardon and undeserved favour).
Christ was made to be sin for us. Therefore, if we BELIEVE that, and throw ourselves upon God's mercy, and TRUST GOD TO FULFILL HIS WORD on the basis - not of our righteousness, but of Christ's death and resurrection - we will be saved.
The apostle said 'believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy household.'
Our faith must rest in Him and His Work, not in us and our works.
If our faith truly rests in Him and His Work, then He will, in us, DO HIS WORK. And may we all arrive at the point where we can honestly say 'it is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me'.
The chosen of God are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. We are predestined by God to think like Jesus, understand things the way He does, and live as He did in this world - a life manifesting the very nature of God through our weak flesh.
God became man that man might become God, as some have said in the misty past. In other words, God took on our nature, so that we might partake of His nature.
God is building a family, literally.
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