What is the way to Salvation according to Jesus?

[Stefan Mettle]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

 

[d taylor]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

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Belief in Jesus is the requirement to receive Eternal Life salvation. Read The Gospel of John, this book was written specifically for telling people how to have life (Eternal Life)

 

[Lukaris]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

We need to know that God loves us and sent us His Son as our Savior for everlasting life. It is by the grace of God that we are saved putting our faith in Jesus Christ and in faith living by His commandments ( as best we can).

See John 3:16-21, Romans 10:9-13, John 14:15-18, Romans 13:8-10, Matthew 6:1-13, Matthew 22:36-40, Matthew 7:12 ( & read Matthew 7:1-12 before it), Matthew 9:36-38, Ephesians 2:8-10 etc.



From here I would carefully read Colossians 1, John 14, 15, & 16, and 1st Corinthians 15.

Next, I would look at the short Apostles Creed and the longer Nicene Creed.

Apostles' Creed

I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born o...

www.usccb.org

The Nicene Creed - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America - Orthodox Church

The official GOA English translation of the Nicene Creed

www.goarch.org

Read the New Testament ( i wouldn’t read too much into Revelation until becoming best acquainted with the Gospels, Acts, and the letters of Paul & the Apostles ). I would read the Old Testament later also. Try to find a caring and faithful church community.

 

[Soyeong]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

In Matthew 4:15-23, Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, which was a light to the Gentiles, and God's law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is what is necessary for the gift of salvation

The content of a gift can itself be experience of doing something, such as giving someone the opportunity to experience of driving a Ferrari for an hour, where the gift intrinsically requires them to do the work of driving it in order to have that experience, but where doing that work contributes nothing towards earning the opportunity to drive it. Similarly, the content of God's gift of eternal life is the experience of knowing Him and Jesus (John 17:3) and the gift of God's law is His instructions for how to have that experience (Exodus 33:13, Matthew 7:23), not for how to earn it as the result. In other words, our obedience to God's law has nothing to do with trying to earn our salvation from, but rather God graciously teaching us to experience being doers of it is intrinsically the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation.

Jesus saves us from our sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so Jesus graciously teaching us to experience being doers of it is intrinsically the way that he is saving us from not having the experience of being a doer of it. In Titus 2:11-13, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so we are not extrinsically require to have first done those works in order to earn our salvation as the result or as the result of having first been saved, but rather God graciously teaching us to experience being doers of those works is intrinsically the way that He is giving us His gift of salvation.

 

[Yarddog]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

Believing in the works of the Lord Jesus. It is more than believing that Jesus is real and the Son of God the Father. Satan knows this far more than we do.

By belief, we are called to accept only the works of Jesus Christ and rejecting "our" works. We cannot in any measure be responsible for our own salvation so we must let go of our own selves and surrender to the Spirit which God gives his children through baptism.

That Spirit, if we allow it, will change us and teach us to love God as he wishes us to. We must trust God to do what we cannot. Salvation comes through that faith.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

Well truthfully, it starts with loving Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Until then, it is impossible to achieve His salvation.
Be blessed.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

God extends His gift of salvation to all people, but we must go God's way.

1Jn 2:2 And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

There are no prerequisites to receiving salvation, for we have all sinned.

Rom 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Jesus forgives all of our sin, so that we can come into a relationship with God. However, we must (try as best we can to) live obediently to God as a habit, not making excuses for our old sins.

Gal 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

John 14:15-24 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him." Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, "Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?" Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father's who sent Me.

 

[Laodicean60]

We need to know that God loves us and sent us His Son as our Savior for everlasting life. It is by the grace of God that we are saved putting our faith in Jesus Christ and in faith living by His commandments ( as best we can).

It is simple and we have a lot of Christians that add to it.

 

[Stefan Mettle]

Thank you all. God bless.

 

[com7fy8]

In Ephesians 1:12 we have

"we who first trusted in Christ" (in Ephesians 1:12).

When you believe someone, you trust the person; and a trusted person can tell you things which you do because you trust the person. And we trust Jesus by submitting to Him in His peace.

Jesus is God's own Son who came here to reach us and share with us and save us from our sins and get us adopted as God's own children, and then we need to do what God wants, not only what we can want and try to do.

So, salvation makes us part of God's family of caring and sharing love. Our works are, then, for family sharing and caring, pleasing God, and getting enemies adopted to join with us; this hope even for enemies feeds how we pray and relate with enemies.

Love "hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7)

Salvation is not just what we get ourselves to choose and do, but first a person is turned "from the power of Satan to God" (in Acts 26:18). Jesus brings someone to God Himself, and this is personal and more and more intimate with God in His own love with His personal guiding >

Romans 5:5

Romans 8:14

 

[Aaron112]

Jesus: "You must be born again"

There is no other way.

What did Jesus say about it?

 

[ViaCrucis]

Is it an attainment? Is it something to do with God? What are the requirements for attaining or achieving Salvation? What did Jesus say about it? Where in the scriptures can we find what Jesus said is necessary for Salvation?

Christians of different theological persuasions will offer different answers based on differences of biblical interpretation, theology, and semantics.

If I were to give a simple definition of salvation that I think most Christians could agree on, it would be this:

Salvation is Divine Rescue, it refers to God rescuing His creation, especially human beings, rescuing them from sin, death, hell, and the devil; and restoring them to a right relationship with Himself on the basis of Jesus Christ and what He has done. With the ultimate purpose of renewing, healing, and restoring all creation and our enjoying and having life in and with God, with one another, and with the rest of creation forever.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[stevevw]

I think it comes down to a simple matter of faith. That sounds too simple and I think we can rationalise and complicate this simple truth.

I liken it to when Christ says we need to become like children in our faith. How the children naturally came to Jesus and believed in Him. Like a child naturally puts their faith and trust in their mum as they take her hand to cross the road without thinking.

I also liken it to the Roman Centurion who fell at Christs feet asking to save his servant who was paralysed. He knew despite all the centurions rationalisation that he was standing before God and Christ said “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.

Faith is the belief in something beyond material evidence, logic or rationalisations. Like you have faith and trust that your wife or husband is faithful. Its relational so it cannot be reduced to a test tube.

Being relational I think its a two way thing and faith without putting it into action is dead. The relationship will dwindle out. This where I think it sorts the wheat out from the chaff as today its easy to say "I believe in God" but another to put that into reality. The ultimate test of faith being that we lay down our life for another.

I think as the world is today and where its heading I really think peoples faith will be tested. Like the early church which grew very fast because faith was continually being put to the test. Just being a Christain in many ways made your life worse. I think this will happen again for Christains in the west.

Not that its already happening for Christains in anti Christain nations like Muslim nations now. But recent data shows that Christain persecution is increasing all over the world including western nations and in some places reaching genocidal levels. So we need to be prepared to put our faith on the line. Even if thats means standing on your faith against secular ideology which may ostricise you.