Why do people hate easy believism?

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Good works and growing in them are evidence of salvation that we have. Evidence that we.are sealed by the holy spiri,

The tax collector after he got saved stopped cheating people and returned what he had stolen.

Good works is a part of the Sanctifiation Process after we are saved by God's grace through Christ Jesus. The Sanctification Process is also a part of salvation because a person cannot refuse to enter the Sanctification Process and be saved because such a position would be living in sin and disobedience to God. Sanctification is about living holy and putting away sin, and doing good works. It follows after being saved by seeking forgiveness of one's sins with Jesus, and in believing that He died for ous sins, He was buried, and He was risen three days later. For Titus 2:11-12 says that God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and that we should live righteously and godly in this present world. Ephesians 5:25-27 says that the purpose or reason Christ died for us was to sanctify us with the washing of the water of the Word so that we can be a church that is holy, and without blemish or spot.

Many today think they can sin and still be saved on some level all because they have a belief alone on Jesus, and that is not how salvation works.

 

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We can do nothing to save ourselves and yet we can still refuse to be saved.

Sure but the only way to refuse to be saved is to refuse to believe in Jesus. Everything that we could do for God would be like a filthy rag. God is so strict that even telling one lie would make you deserve an eternal punishment in hell according to Revelation 21:8. That's why it has to be 100% through Jesus and 0% through our own works or anything else.

 

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Sure but the only way to refuse to be saved is to refuse to believe in Jesus. Everything that we could do for God would be like a filthy rag. God is so strict that even telling one lie would make you deserve an eternal punishment in hell according to Revelation 21:8. That's why it has to be 100% through Jesus and 0% through our own works or anything else.

We have to be careful though not to make this mean that, no matter what a believer (and we're all, of necessity, self-proclaimed as to that status) does that God would overlook it. Faith is not an escape from man's obligation to be righteous, and that's not the purpose of the New Covenant. With the NC God can accomplish in us what we cannot on our own, without Him. The good acts spoken of in Rom 2:7 or those things done for "the least of these" in Matt 25 or the works prepared for us in advance in Eph 2:10 are not filthy rags. Either way, if there's no positive fruit in one's life then heaven will probably not be theirs.

And Scripture often puts the onus on believers. Revelation 22 and elsewhere tell us that no sinners enter heaven-that we must wash our robes. Is perfection, to be who God created us to be, too difficult a task for Him ultimately? Does He suddenly decide to ignore injustice now-or rather to actually finally restore justice to His wayward creation? He certainly didn't create us to be sinners after all-and we shouldn't pride ourselves in remaining there-in remaining who we were at conversion. But He wants us to participate in any case, for our own good and betterment, our own growth in the righteousness that He gives at justification. So, again, believers are told to strive, to persevere, to be vigilant, to invest their talents, to be holy, to refrain from sin, to live by the Spirit and not the flesh, to remain in Christ, generally with loss of heaven at stake. Otherwise we can be a branch cut off even after being grafted in.

Either way, whether or not one wishes to view righteousness as being strictly imputes at justification or whether or not we view righteousness as actually being restored/given at justification, none of it is possible without Jesus. "Apart from me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). It's just happens that God wants us to do-and to be-something. Praise God!

 

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“And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.” (John 5:29).

Can folks honestly say to themselves that doing good is justifying sin with the thinking one is saved by having a belief alone on Jesus? Or is doing good simply what it literally means? You know, to actually do good?