The Grace Doctrine?

[terryjohn]

To give up your salvation for others makes the mistake of placing your love for others above your love for God which is always our undoing and quite a brave thing to imagine God would accept it on the same basis as that of Christ's. I imagine satan would propose such a deal.

 

[Neogaia777]

In Christianity i couldn't help but notice that it seems like an every man for himself Religion. One seems so focused on making it to heaven and if you dont make it then.that sucks for you hallelujah.
I noticed this for years and this specific scene i saw in this movie, with Keanu Reeves got me thinking.

It's a scene where in the end the guy forfeits his salvation in order to save another person. I saw this movie years ago and i pondered on a thought for years that I've finally came to a conclusion. That thought was would i sacrifice my salvation or opportunity for heaven for another. Then I thought about loved ones, and people that God has placed on my heart, and my answer is yes, i would forfeit my salvation, to save another. My question for Christians is would you do the same?

God won't allow you to do that, salvation is in God's/Jesus hands, not ours, that is the height of arrogance to think that ours, or another's salvation is in our hands and in our control, or up to us...

But, for arguments sake, if you could actually "chose" to forfeit your salvation (like that's in our control or up to us) But, if you could actually "chose" to forfeit your salvation to save another then that is an act of self-sacrifice, and that is one of the highest forms of the expression of Love, and Jesus will probably lay claim to that person on resurrection or judgment day...

"He who seeks to save his soul shall lose it, but he that loses his soul, for my (J.C.) sake, will find it"

We must not live clenching onto our soul, or our salvation tightly, but we must ease up on the grip and live more care-free, entrusting God and Jesus with our soul or salvation...

What movie are you referring to? What did the person in the movie supposedly "do" to save another, and yet lose or forfeit their own salvation?

Could you give me an example of a situation where a person is doing this please...?

God Bless!

 

[annafullofgrace]

And this requires real correction and real sacrifice. While I was a young Christian, I might be able to say yes God I'll give up my salvation so someone else can be saved. But that could be only a heroic gesture. Submitting to God's correction and forgiving people "can" take more real love and honesty.

Yes. As I get older, I'm practicing more of the 'forgive them even if they are not sorry'. Not always easy.