Setting the Record Straight

[miknik5]

Is it important for one to believe THE TRUTH of THE GOSPEL

That CHRIST died, so that what was dead (all were dead and separated from GOD) might be made alive to GOD in HIS SON

That its only in by and through faith in THE SON and what THE FATHER has done for us in HIS SON that we are justified and have TRUE LIFE in us

 

[The Brown Brink]

Again show me how you "love your neighbor" on a Christian forum

By withholding or covering up the TRUTH that no man can come to THE FATHER except through THE SON and there is no salvation except in HIS NAME

I guess I don't worry about salvation as much as you do.
I worry about our behaviors.
Our behaviors lead us to salvation.
Jesus said to love thy neighbor, because, if we do, our behavior will lead us to salvation.
That's the Way.
Salvation comes naturally, if you love God and your neighbor.
There is no greater commandment than these.

 

[miknik5]

You're trying to make Christianity all complicated.
It's not complicated.

Do you believe that JESUS CHRIST laid down HIS LIFE for those who would believe in HIM?

Do all believe in JESUS as savior and Lord?

 

[miknik5]

You judge my behavior as unloving because I won't be flexible with THE GOSPEL?

And you see that as unloving?

I don't

I'm sorry that you do

 

[The Brown Brink]

You judge my behavior as unloving because I won't be flexible with THE GOSPEL?

And you see that as unloving?

I don't

I'm sorry that you do

Good heavens!
I'm not talking about you, personally.
I'm talking about Christians, in general.

 

[The Brown Brink]

And I know many Christians worry about salvation.
They read the Bible and study and worry and fret...

But all they have to do is love God and love their neighbors.
Then they wouldn't have to worry about salvation.
They'd have it.

 

[miknik5]

Good heavens!
I'm not talking about you, personally.
I'm talking about Christians, in general.

What do you mean?
What have they done?
What are they guilty of?

 

[The Brown Brink]

There is no other way.

 

[miknik5]

And I know many Christians worry about salvation.
They read the Bible and study and worry and fret...

But all they have to do is love God and love their neighbors.
Then they wouldn't have to worry about salvation.
They'd have it.

Because of JESUS or because of their extraordinary exceptional love

 

[miknik5]

There is no other way.

What?

Be clear

What is THE WAY

 

[The Brown Brink]

What do you mean?
What have they done?
What are they guilty of?

I get the impression that some Christians try to find ANY other way to gain salvation than by loving their neighbors.
They'll quote and witness and do ANYTHING besides loving their neighbor, like it's the hardest thing in the world to do.
I don't get it.

 

[miknik5]

I'm sorry everybody for this confusion

Loving somebody but withholding the TRUTH of THE GOSPEL is not loving

 

[miknik5]

I get the impression that some Christians try to find ANY other way to gain salvation than by loving their neighbors.
They'll quote and witness and do ANYTHING besides loving their neighbor, like it's the hardest thing in the world to do.
I don't get it.

Do you believe THE GOSPEL?
Have you ever spent time with a Christian friend and asked them to explain THE GOSPEL

 

[The Brown Brink]

Is there something secret about it?
Something that must be explained to me?
Is there some code I'm missing?
Do I have to use a password?

 

[miknik5]

Is there something secret about it?
Something that must be explained to me?
Is there some code I'm missing?
Do I have to use a password?

Do you believe that CHRIST died for us and that there was nothing that we could do to restore the relationship with THE FATHER apart from what CHRIST has done for us

That there really isn't anything that we can profess before GOD except faith in HIS SON

And it's only through our faith in what CHRIST has done for us that we are washed and justified and it's because of our faith in HIM, we are baptized into HIM and risen in HIM, a new creation, made alive to THE FATHER in HIS SON

 

[miknik5]

CHRIST, by laying down HIS LIFE and taking it up again opened the WAY between heaven/GOD and earth/man through HIS BODY

And really

No man can come to THE FATHER except through THE SON

There is no other way by which a man can be saved

And salvation is only in HIS NAME

 

[The Brown Brink]

Do you believe that CHRIST died for us and that there was nothing that we could do to restore the relationship with THE FATHER apart from what CHRIST has done for us

That there really isn't anything that we can profess before GOD except faith in HIS SON

And it's only through our faith in what CHRIST has done for us that we are washed and justified and it's because of our faith in HIM, we are baptized into HIM and risen in HIM, a new creation, made alive to THE FATHER in HIS SON

Yeah.
And...is this supposed to be difficult to do?
I don't get it.

 

[Cearbhall]

Can someone who knows the TRUTH that salvation is only in CHRIST offer flexible alternatives of THE TRUTH?

Is it important for one to believe THE TRUTH of THE GOSPEL

You don't know the TRUTH of THE GOSPEL?

And do you think sharing THE TRUTH of THE ONE GOSPEL isn't loving your neighbor as your own soul?

Loving somebody but withholding the TRUTH of THE GOSPEL is not loving

The TRUTH
of THE SAVIOR and LORD

You don't know The GOOD NEWS of GOD's long-suffering love, patience, mercy, grace upon HIS disobedient children who were ever and always going astray?

And any servant of THE LORD would never withhold THE GOOD NEWS of THE GOSPEL for it is THE POWER of GOD to all those who believe

That GOD provided a WAY for HIS children to come to HIM and that WAY is only in by and through HIS SON

That CHRIST died, so that what was dead (all were dead and separated from GOD) might be made alive to GOD in HIS SON

By withholding or covering up the TRUTH that no man can come to THE FATHER except through THE SON and there is no salvation except in HIS NAME

One needs to hear the message of THE CROSS

I see my message has fallen on deaf ears.

Oh well. I tried.

 

[miknik5]

Deaf ears?
Yes

That is true

People exalt what they do and look too much at themselves as they are doing it

 

[miknik5]

Yeah.
And...is this supposed to be difficult to do?
I don't get it.

Do you remind those poor Christians who worry about their salvation of THE SOURCE of their SALVATION

I see my message has fallen on deaf ears.

Oh well. I tried.

I would like to say that I am sorry that THE TRUTH of THE GOSPEL is not loving enough for you

I'm not sorry about THE GOSPEL

I'm sorry it wasn't enough