What I really believe deep down, anything else I am not 100% sure

[JohnB445]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

 

[SabbathBlessings]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

Just a small correction, its our righteousness that is filthy rags, not works Isa 64.6. Why we need to depend on God’s version of right and wrong and not ours Psa 119:172 Psa 119:142

We are saved by grace through faith, but God made us to do good works Eph 2:8-10.

Our works can’t save us, only Jesus can, but our works demonstrate if our heart has been changed by Jesus.

A Christian should never stop learning and growing, we are either growing closer to God through His Word, prayer and fellowship or we are going in the other direction.

 

[Joseph G]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

Romans 8:16 NIV

"The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

If we hear His Spirit, we have nothing to fear.

That's it, bro!

Jesus is happy to re-confirm our identity as often as we ask - in all kinds of creative ways - especially in emphazing the covenant-keeping promises He makes with His children throughout the OT and NT. HE is the Author of Scripture, therefore we can trust His Spirit is telling us the Truth about our identity.

Why is He willing to re-confirm if we actually... go... to... Him? Because He is our High Priest, and He certainly empathizes with the fact that the devil wages an all-out assault on our identity relentlessly. After all, he has done so with Jesus - and His Father - since he first rebelled.

And really, that assurance solidifies over time as we walk with Him. Important to note, just because we doubt sometimes doesn't mean we have lost faith completely. His Spirit within even keeps our faith secure for us. We learn that as we emerge through every fiery trial, every period of pruning, every dry spell, and especially after the most severe moments of sifting as wheat.

OSAS? 100%!

 

[BobRyan]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

I agree with you in that - I don't believe in Once Saved Always Saved because of Romans 11 regarding 'being grafted in again" and being "removed.

1. Same thing said in that regard in John 15
2. Matt 18 ends that same way
3. Heb 6 makes that same point in the first 10 verses.
4. Ezek 18 makes that same point in the entire chapter.

I also accept "One God" Deut 6:5 in THREE Persons Matt 28:18

I accept the "Saved by grace through Faith" teaching of Eph 2.

I accept the literal 7 day week of creation in Gen 1 - 2:3

The judgment event in Dan 7:9-10,
Judgement process in Rom 2:4-16
The literal 1000 years of Rev 20 - (called Millennium)
The post-millennial great white throne judgment of Rev 20

the literal lake of fire that follows that Rev 20 judgment.

Literal heaven

Literal rapture in 1 Thess 4:13-18

Also found in Matt 24:29-31

Also found in John 14:1-3

etc.

 

[NBB]

It's ok not being sure of some things, it's worse imo, when christians debate and fight for theologies they believe are true but are not being able to be completely sure, like this we have thousands of denominations.

I don't like that Pastors have this need to present themselves as authority on all topics, but they can't be sure what they talk sometimes. It seems they are forbidden of just saying 'i am not sure' or 'i don't know'

 

[Joseph G]

If Jesus' promises of eternal security are not for those who have a personal relationship with Him and can hear the voice of His Holy Spirit, then please explain exactly who they are for? Here's just a few...

133 Eternal Security Verses

Eternal Security Scriptures

Below is a list of every scripture guaranteeing the eternal security of the believer. This list is a work-in-progress. Feel free to submit scriptures we’ve missed. – Old Testament (n = 9) &#8…

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Either we believe what the Author and Authority of Scripture says to us *personally* (which He promises us He does), or we don't. It's really that simple. That is, in fact, the very definition of true saving faith.

Allow the Author Himself to reconcile Scripture where we can't, and simply trust that He whose very character is Love, is telling us the Truth - about Himself - and us.

It is the Accuser of the Brethren who has declared war on our identity.

Who are we going to trust? Who has *earned* it in our lives?

God bless us all!

 

[Clare73]

I agree with you in that - I don't believe in Once Saved Always Saved because of Romans 11 regarding 'being grafted in again" and being "removed.

The professing church and Israel; i.e., the tree, are not about once saved, always saved.
Both are simply about bodies of professing believers (the kingdom), where both contain wheat as well as tares.

The Israelites were in the one tree of God's people because of their faith in the promise (Ge 15:5, seed, Jesus Christ, Gal 3:16).
Any Israelite who did not believe in the promise was not actually in the one tree of God's people.
The unbelieving nation was removed from the one tree of God's people when they rejected the promise, Jesus Christ, in which they once believed.

"Once saved, always saved" is only about the born again (Jn 3:3-5), not about all professing Christians.

Same thing said in that regard in John 15
Matt 18 ends that same way
Heb 6 makes that same point in the first 10 verses.
Ezek 18 makes that same point in the entire chapter.

I also accept "One God" Deut 6:5 in THREE Persons Matt 28:18

I accept the "Saved by grace through Faith" teaching of Eph 2.

I accept the literal 7 day week of creation in Gen 1 - 2:3

The judgment event in Dan 7:9-10,
Judgement process in Rom 2:4-16
The literal 1000 years of Rev 20 - (called Millennium)
The post-millennial great white throne judgment of Rev 20

the literal lake of fire that follows that Rev 20 judgment.

Literal heaven

Literal rapture in 1 Thess 4:13-18

Also found in Matt 24:29-31

Also found in John 14:1-3

etc.

 

[Aaron112]

No one.

Who has *earned* it in our lives?

 

[Joseph G]

The Israelites were in the one tree of God's people because of their faith in the promise (Ge 15:5, seed, Jesus Christ, Gal 3:16).

That's right, those of the faith specifically believed in God Himself as their Redeemer, not just their Judge.

Any Israelite who did not believe in the promise was not actually in the one tree of God's people.

All who called themselves children of Abraham were not necessarily so, only those of true faith - as Jesus says. True faith has always been the identifying criteria since the beginning - faith in action. Hebrews 11.

"Once saved, always saved" is only about the born again (Jn 3:3-5), not about all professing Christians.

100% agree. Specifically those born of the Spirit, as further detailed in vs. 6-8.

This is precisely why I stated that they are those who can hear the Spirit (and of course recognize the Spirit) - Romans 8:16 - and further belong to and walk in the Spirit and not the flesh - all of Romans 8.

As Jesus says, the ones who love Him will obey Him - and that is a guarantee for those of the Spirit. It is why *He* is the Author and Finisher of our faith, and it is *He* Who *shall* complete a good work in us. He is the Covenant Keeper.

God bless!

 

[Joseph G]

No one.

I was obviously referring to Jesus. I'm sure you would agree that *He* has earned our trust.

 

[Clare73]

That's right, those of the faith specifically believed in God Himself as their Redeemer, not just their Judge.

Belief in the promise (Ge 15:5, seed, Jesus Christ, Gal 3:16) was the means of salvation.

 

[Mark Quayle]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

Well, there is the fact that God is self-existent omnipotent first cause, which implies that he is not subject to any fact or principle from outside himself; he is the very author of reality itself, the 'inventor' of all things that we might otherwise consider 'natural fact', like logic, cause-and-effect and time passage. If not, he is not God.

Yet, it makes more sense that God should exist than that anything else should. Yet, here we are...

Likewise, it makes no sense that he would create something for the mere purpose of suffering; to the almighty, that would be boring.

So whatever God has begun, you can be sure he will complete. It is impossible for him to fail. God does not try. He DOES.

 

[Fervent]

Yet, it makes more sense that God should exist than that anything else should. Yet, here we are...

Not just that, but if God does not exist then it is possible for tautologies to be false, because God's existence is an analytic reality. It's not only more sensible, it's metaphysically impossible for God not to exist. The true question we need to ask ourselves is not does God exist, but what is God like and how can we know Him?

 

[Mark Quayle]

Not just that, but if God does not exist then it is possible for tautologies to be false, because God's existence is an analytic reality. It's not only more sensible, it's metaphysically impossible for God not to exist. The true question we need to ask ourselves is not does God exist, but what is God like and how can we know Him?

Interesting to me, that in the end, those two questions are of the same nature as to ask, "Why would God make us, or, for that matter, make anything else?"

 

[ARBITER01]

How much should a Christian know?

Depends.

Truth from others is mostly limited. Truth from GOD is unlimited. Which do you find to be important?

 

[soldier of light]

God is real, Jesus is God in the flesh. I believe in the trinity, and the Bible is the literal word of God. These are no stories, Noah really did build an ark and there was a flood, Jesus really resurrected from the dead. Adam and Eve are real people who existed, heaven and hell are real places.

That we are saved by grace through faith, it is a gift from God and has nothing to do with works. We need mercy and forgiveness from God, all our works are like filthy rags we cannot please God with our works.

Anything other than that, I am not 100% sure, I am not even 100% sure on Once Saved Always Saved even though I would really want to believe in it and be 100% sure about it.

I am not too concerned because I will follow God and do my best anyways, I have no plans of leaving the faith. How much should a Christian know?

I believe in simplicity in Christ. The simple commands of Jesus and his apostles, and worship in the form of prayer and meditating on the word of the Lord.

 

[soldier of light]

Depends.

Truth from others is mostly limited. Truth from GOD is unlimited. Which do you find to be important?

Simplicity is the truth I see.