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“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.” Galatians 5:6 (NCPB)What makes you say faith
The way you are framing faith is that it's an offshoot of Love. I would say it is independent and not built off love but part of the whole born again transformation.
Philippians 1:29
For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake
What the Gospel? I didn't know what it was. As I shared already, I read the Gospel of John (multiple times) and was saved. I took Jesus at his word. As he said they "are spirit and they are life". Sure my experience is different.
Ro 10:18 is referring to general revelation. General revelation drew me to God, but the Gospel of John made everything clear. General revelation is not what you OP is about. You could start another thread for that. Same for the unborn.
“For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.” Galatians 5:6 (NCPB)
You cannot have faith without love.
Faith is based on knowledge, the "knowledge of God" referred to in Scripture, the knowledge that Jesus came to reveal when the time was ripe: the true and complete "face" of God. So that by knowing Him we may come to believe in Him, and by believing in Him we may enter a fellowship or communion which consists also in hoping in, and, most importantly, loving Him.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?
JJ I read through your post and I see nowhere in any of that scripture or even close that it gives instructions to or for a non-believer to get faith in Christ. Being an evangelist and giving the lost a Commandment to have faith in Christ without details how to do it is worthless.
believe
The thing that confuses me about Lutheranism is it claims to be monergistic but at the same time shows sighs of God working in partnership with human creation. Like sacraments,this leads onto ''coopering'' with Gods will,therefore it is not monergistic. I will have to confess I am not too familiar with Lutheranism but it is complicated.
The obvious question is then how would a person have faith in Christ to do the sacraments to begin with?
by hearing about God from other people or creations witness.How?
Faith is based on knowledge, the "knowledge of God" referred to in Scripture, the knowledge that Jesus came to reveal when the time was ripe: the true and complete "face" of God. So that by knowing Him we may come to believe in Him, and by believing in Him we may enter a fellowship or communion which consists also in hoping in, and, most importantly, loving Him.
We believe because this God, demonstrated by everything Jesus said and did from the beginning of his life on earth through His passion, death, and resurrection is proven to be incomparably trustworthy, good, merciful: to have an uncompromising love for mankind. Jesus gives us something to believe in. And grace then enables that faith to actually take root and express itself as we come to accept and embrace that gift, even if only weakly at first. This direct and intimate knowledge that begins in this life and is to be fully realized in the next is referred to in Jer 31:34:
"No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord."
And John 17:3:
"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
The Sacraments aren't things we do for God, but what God does for us--they are monergistic, God's work. So we don't "do the Sacraments", God does.
-CryptoLutheran
The Truth is that The GodHead Is very Real. As of right now, maybe you don’t absolutely know this. Your obedience without understanding is of great value. When you do See and Hear The Truth, then you will understand like everyone must understand in time.So a person can just walk to Christ and start obeying? What about if they are tied up and can't move?
John8:38
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
An act of mercy from God?
by hearing about God from other people or creations witness.
when Jesus is lifted high people are drawn to Him
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
For men are without excuse...Rom 1:20
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God
The Truth is that The GodHead Is very Real. As of right now, maybe you don’t absolutely know this. Your obedience without understanding is of great value. When you do See and Hear The Truth, then you will understand like everyone must understand in time.
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?
Oh, perhaps it would have been proper if one had said performed a sacrement?
If faith come by hearing the word what happens to unborn people who die in the womb?
We are just the messengers of GOD's word, we give an understanding of the process, we do not put flesh on the bones of the process. When we evangelize we need to open people up to knowing who GOD is and HIS word which is truth. We are too make people aware of their sins they have committed against GOD, how bad they are, too HIM and the Righteous Judgement to come.
We are to make them aware that if they die in their sins they will end up in hell. We need to let them know that a price has to be paid for their sins as GOD cannot let people off their sins because HE is Righteous. Then we let them Know all about Christ. Why he came down to earth and what He did for those sins, we committed. We need to let them know salvation only comes through Christ no other and that His sacrifice for our sins is enough but only if we repent of our sins, put sin behind us and put all our faith in Christ for our salvation.
Hope this helps.
Peace be with all those in the body of Christ
God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth
Truly we are hear to serve and not to be served
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him
Receive. We receive the Sacraments, passively.
We receive Baptism, we don't do or "perform" Baptism.
We receive the Eucharist, we don't do or "perform" the Eucharist.
Just as we receive the word, we don't "perform" the Gospel.
And this receiving, again, is passive. We are passive recipients.
-CryptoLutheran
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