d taylor
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Is calling Jesus the Son of God the same as believing in his blood (Romans 3:5)
for the remission of your sin?
But before Paul became a believer, you would not have found him doing wondrous works
in Jesus' name as those in Matthew 7:22 were doing.
Like Paul, does not their behavior and the actions reported in Matthew 7:22 indicate they believed in Jesus?
Why would they be doing all those works and expecting to be with him in eternity if they did not believe in him?
It is The Messiah that a person has to believe in to receive Eternal Life. The whole Gospel of John makes the case that Jesus is The promised Messiah from the prophecies of The Tanakh. there are 8 miracles Jesus did showing He is who He says He is. They did not point to The Messiah blood but to The Messiah.
Why are you focusing on sins, Jesus took away the sin of the world. Sin is not an obstacle for a person in receiving Eternal Life, sin does not stand in the way.
What Paul was doing before he became a believer, he was murdering believers.
If their works point to them being a believe why do Jesus say away from Him
‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
The same reason anyone does works expecting to be in heaven, they do not believe the free promise of Eternal Life offered by God. They believe they can obtain it, and not receive it
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