Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus

[LoveofJesus2]

So much truth , so powerful! Had to share

 

[SavedByGrace3]

Christianity will allow you to lay a religion upon the foundation of your faith. As long as you practice your 'religion' in faith and love, go ahead and walk in it. Just do not expect your religion to add one iota to your salvation. It is a free gift and cannot be worked for or purchased.

 

[Soyeong]

So much truth , so powerful! Had to share

religion
[ ri-lij-uhn ]
noun
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Christianity is a religion by definition and the fact that is a religion that teaches us how to love Jesus does not make it any less of a religion. It is contradictory to love Jesus, but not the religion based on loving Jesus. Jesus set a perfect example of how to practice the religion of Judaism for us to follow by walking in sinless obedience to the Torah, so there has never been another person who is more religious than him.

 

[Soyeong]

Christianity will allow you to lay a religion upon the foundation of your faith. As long as you practice your 'religion' in faith and love, go ahead and walk in it. Just do not expect your religion to add one iota to your salvation. It is a free gift and cannot be worked for or purchased.

The content of God's gift of salvation is getting to practice His religion.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

James makes an interesting statement about pure religion.

James 1:27 KJV
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Religion works. Good works are not designed to save you or keep you from hell, the gospel did that, but to both honor God and care for your neighbors. It is putting into action the things you believe.

 

[Soyeong]

James makes an interesting statement about pure religion.

James 1:27 KJV
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Religion works. Good works are not designed to save you or keep you from hell, the gospel did that, but to both honor God and care for your neighbors. It is putting into action the things you believe.

Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so while we do not earn our salvation as the result of our works, doing good works in obedience to it is intrinsically part of the content of what God's gift of saving us from not doing those work is 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 God graciously teaching us to do those works is again part of the content of what God's gift of saving us from not doing those works is. 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 it is contradictory to think that we are saved through faith in the Gospel, but are not saved by repenting and obeying God's law through faith.