Salvation like a gift card - Redeem it anytime

[PrettyboyAndy]

Hello brothers and sisters.

I am attending a new church and during the message the pastor compared salvation to a gift card. God gives you a gift card, and you can redeem it anytime.

The Bible clearly teaches:
a) Salvation is from the Lord - Jonah 2
b) Faith is a gift from God - Ephesians 2
c) Repentance is a gift from God - Ephesians 2

So in light of these verses from Scripture, How can one make this argument, I do not understand.

The natural man is:
a) a Slave to sin
b) In the Kingdom of Darkness
c) Without the Holy Spirit
d) Dead in his trespasses

I don't see how anyone can connect the dots.

 

[twin1954]

Hello brothers and sisters.

I am attending a new church and during the message the pastor compared salvation to a gift card. God gives you a gift card, and you can redeem it anytime.

The Bible clearly teaches:
a) Salvation is from the Lord - Jonah 2
b) Faith is a gift from God - Ephesians 2
c) Repentance is a gift from God - Ephesians 2

So in light of these verses from Scripture, How can one make this argument, I do not understand.

The natural man is:
a) a Slave to sin
b) In the Kingdom of Darkness
c) Without the Holy Spirit
d) Dead in his trespasses

I don't see how anyone can connect the dots.

They can't so they imagine what is not taught in the Bible. They are blind to the simple fact that no matter how they put it their view makes man his own savior.

 

[BBAS 64]

They can't so they imagine what is not taught in the Bible. They are blind to the simple fact that no matter how they put it their view makes man his own savior.

Hi there Twin long time.

 

[PrettyboyAndy]

They can't so they imagine what is not taught in the Bible. They are blind to the simple fact that no matter how they put it their view makes man his own savior.

After all this time, I just realized your photo is of golf

 

[twin1954]

Hi there Twin long time.

Howdy! I am not on here much anymore. But I do still check in from time to time.

 

[twin1954]

After all this time, I just realized your photo is of golf

That is the closest I have ever come to a hole in one.