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Recent content by BenBud

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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    My church teaches that faith (always) and works (follows) are what saves. The Bible tells us we must have faith in order to be saved (Hebrews 11:6). Yet is faith nothing more than believing and trusting? Searching the Scriptures, we see faith also involves assent to God's truth (1...
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    What are you even saying? What do you think we have to do to be saved?
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Yes, GOD is the judge at the end of the day. Sinning and deliberate sin are two different things. My "good enough" is trying to live the way Jesus did. And at the point of salvation, when we are buried with Christ and raised a new, how can you work for something supernatural to happen to you...
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Well it looks like he was saved. Then later in life he fell away to his own sinful desires. If you are indulging in deliberate sin and you don't repent of it then that sin separates you from God. (Hebrews 10:26-31)
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Correct. :thumbsup:
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Correct. :thumbsup:
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Hear, Believe, Repent, Commit, and be Baptized. :amen:
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Be a disciple.
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    1. Hearing and learning God's word John 6:44,45 - No man can come to Jesus without hearing, learning, and being taught. Romans 10:17 - Faith comes by hearing the word of God. This is the role the word plays in salvation. We cannot be saved until we learn from God's word what He requires...
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    Works Required to Prove Faith

    Lets look at salvation first. What separates us from God? SIN. Ok. So the only way to be saved is from repenting from that sin, to follow God's holy light. With sin we can't inter his divine presence. REPENTING means: doing a 180 and not going back to that sin or in Greek: a complete change in...