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Returning to Christianity, not sure where I fit [moved from Exploring Christianity]

Emmy

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Dear the Green Chef. Jesus has good advice for us: In Matthew 22: 35-40:
Jesus says: " The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. The second is like it: love thy neighbour as thyself." Jesus also states this great fact: " On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." God is Love and God wants loving sons and daughters. What do we do?
In Matthew 7: 7-10: we are told: " ask and you shall receive," we ask God for Love and Joy, then we thank God and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour: all we know and all we meet, friends and not friends. We keep asking and receiving, then thank God and share all Love and Joy with our neighbour. God sees our loving efforts, and God will approve and bless us,
and the Holy Spirit will help and guide us, and Jesus our Saviour, will lead us all the way: JESUS IS THE WAY. We might stumble and forget at times, but
then we ask God to forgive us, and carry on loving and caring.
A Christian`s weapon is Love, and with love we overcome all enmity and wrong behaviour. Love is very catching, and Love covers a multitude of sins.
Love God with all your beings, and treat all you know and meet as you would love to be treated. I say this with love, Green Chef. Greetings from Emmy,
your sister in Christ.
 
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The Bible, the basis of Christianity, does not agree with you on how a person is truly saved. It says,

John 3:16-18(AMP)

16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([d]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. 18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.​

Romans 10:9-10, 13(AMP)

9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.

13 For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking Him as Lord] will be saved.​
 
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Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

If you want to know whether the bible is the word of God, ask God to reveal that to you. Don't go by the worlds wisdom, go by what God will reveal to you. Also, ask God to lead you to a church of His choosing. Get into fellowship with other believers and get involved in what the Lord is doing in your community. God bless
 
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