Well, you've made that clear, by your repeated erroneous comments about what I believe.
Not to mention these indescipherable sentences.
Well, this is the first time you've brought up these 2 subjects, so how could I have addressed either of them before?
This is biblical saving faith:
Trusting fully in the work of Christ in dying for your own sins on the cross and His guarantee of giving you eternal life for believing in Him.
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.
John 5:24 - “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.
John 20:31 - But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Now, for the second subject:
We receive the Holy Spirit by believing in Jesus Christ for our salvation.
Gal 3-
2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?
5 So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?
My friend you have done it again.
I believe Jesus is the son of God, but that does not make me saved.
I believe Jesus died for sins but that does not make me saved.
Believing "in" Jesus Christ is an important step.
Believing He died because of my sins, personally.
But just believing my sins caused His death does not make me clean, or washed or purified.
If that was so this is a car wash, coming out the other side expecting to get it all wrong all over again and having zero desire to do any different.
If God died, He expects a real eternal change, in our lives. If not He need not have come He could of just accepted us as we are, tweak the sin out of us and heaven is all populated and ready to roll.
So Jesus death and resurrection empowers victory, freedom, healing, joy. If it cannot reach the heart, the emotions, motivations, cause and effect that ruins our lives, it is powerless.
But if the cross really changes us, rocks us to our core, there is hope, eternal hope.
Free you are quoting verses at me, which are true, but you seem not to see how a prostitute is saved, finds their mental illness gone, their relationships now flowing and in balance, depression and hopelessness removed, and they literally walk the path of righteousness. Now this has happened to people, it is like night and day. The fruit is plain to see, the consequences of the cross real.
I have been friends with people who have gone through this. For me it was not this dramatic but the fruit has been very obvious and real. So in my enthusiasm I see this as the model of spiritual realisation and truth.
'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' Luke 10:27
If ones heart is conflicted, emotions fly everywhere, struggling with sin and addictions, this is like a dream impossible to reach. But that is the point, without faith and the Holy Spirit, opening up ones heart and walking as child, nothing will every succeed.
