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The second quote is the answer to your question. Good job Halbhh.
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The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
I've found that this is literally true -- it works just as it says:
Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
As Christ explained (to us all!) in Mark chapter 4, the Word is the seed, that sprouts into faith. ( I suggest to read the full chapter)
As He tells us in this chapter, we don't know how and when the seed grows. That part isn't at all from us. But the seed, the Word, is the necessary thing. When Christ went in spirit and made proclamation to the spirits in prison (1rst Peter chapter 3), they could hear the Word, if they were willing, these in 'prison' who had already passed from this mortal world.
Romans 10:The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
For me, it was receiving the Holy Spirit. I asked God for it.
The order you gave me was spirit then call.
So you were regenerated before you had faith?
A saving faith which allows you to be a child of God is a gift from God given to some and not others, so the question might be better asked: “What can a person do to obtain such a faith, since not everyone obtains this faith?”The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
So reading bible verses is what convinced you god existed and how you got saved? Is this correct?
Romans10:17 “... Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God”, gives us knowledge on how faith comes, by taking in God’s word.The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
You take a step of faith by inviting Christ to save you. Your obedience is a measure of your faith. Continue knowing that if you continue to seek you will find.The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
Faith works by love. Make love your motive in all you think, say, and do, and faith will grow.The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
I've found that this is literally true -- it works just as it says:
Romans 10:17 Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
As Christ explained (to us all!) in Mark chapter 4, the Word is the seed, that sprouts into faith. ( I suggest to read the full chapter)
As He tells us in this chapter, we don't know how and when the seed grows. That part isn't at all from us. But the seed, the Word, is the necessary thing. When Christ went in spirit and made proclamation to the spirits in prison (1rst Peter chapter 3), they could hear the Word, if they were willing, these in 'prison' who had already passed from this mortal world.
Faith is by hearing.The Bible says unless a person believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and saviour they are separated from God.
How exactly does this faith in Christ come about, from scripture. "Soul winners" will knock on people's door or go out street preaching the message "believe in Jesus" and I agree faith is needed. The question is: How do we do that? Specifically how can a lost person get faith in Jesus?
Are you saying faith is a gift that saves,by itself,then things are added to make us stronger or are you saying there is a multitude of things at work assisting the gift of faith?
Yeah that's true and sometimes it is the other way round. We are told very simply to believe in Jesus and it is up to us to do it,when I started to examine the scripture for these instructions so I could help others follow Jesus,they are not there. Not in learnable detail. Why is that?
From the Lutheran perspective this is a discussion between the "Ordered Power" or "Ordered Means" of God in contrast to the "Absolute Power" or "Absolute Means" of God. Luther himself addresses this--and, in fact, exactly in the context of miscarriages--and uses the story of Daniel's three companions in the fiery furnace to illustrate this distinction. Namely, that by God's ordered power and means, fire burns; and yet the fire in the fiery furnace didn't so much as singe a single hair on Daniel's companions--this because of God's absolute power.
As Christians we are called to confess God's ordered power and means--for this reason we preach the Gospel, administer the Sacraments, because of what God has said to us through the Scriptures concerning these as His Means of Grace. This does not mean that we get to dictate to God what He can and cannot do--for by God's absolute power He may do whatever He so pleases. Thus when we speak of God's revealed means and the necessity thereof--for example that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Christ, and it is through this gift of faith that we are freely justified by God's grace on account of Christ's all-sufficient work--we are not saying that everyone who has never heard the Gospel is damned. We do not mean that unbaptized infants are damned. We do not mean that children lost in miscarriage or through a tragic accident in childbirth are damned. We are not daring to speak of God's absolute power, His absolute means, His absolute will and what He shall ultimately do--we speak instead of what God has said to us, and given us. That Christ has charged the Church with the preaching of the word, and that this word is living and active, it is not inert, but actually causes to be what it promises: That this preaching of the Gospel actually results in conversion. Not through the will of man, not through the ability of man, but by the ordered power of God through His own Gospel word to sinners, God accomplishes that which He has promised.
Thus here through God's ordered means of grace, Word and Sacrament, God accomplishes that which He has promised to accomplish.
Outside of that, that is a matter of God's absolute power and means, and we leave that entirely to God. Believing and trusting in His mercy, grace, justice, and kindness as He has shown Himself to be.
-CryptoLutheran
Isn't that different for everybody? I sought the truth. Strange things started to happen and at some point I believed the Bible was true. I got home one day from work realizing I was on my way to destruction. I prayed to God for forgiveness and I got born again.
Basically three things need to happen:
1. Start to believe the Bible is true. This understanding can come about in different ways.
2. Understanding you are lost.
3. Give your life to Jesus
Each of us is given the measure of faith "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
And faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God... thats it. Christ is real.. that word is alive. One has to work their faith. With out faith its impossible to please God. He calls those things that be not as though they were...faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. We must work our faith. So surprised how this is not talked about more. Much if it gets tossed at some GROUP yet the word of God is so clear on it. Like asking the Father for the holy Spirit <---shhhh. Yet John 3:16? TELL THE WORLD! Yet both Luke 13 John 3:16 go hand in hand. If its written.. believe it.. do it. He can't lie
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