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For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
(Romans 1:16-32)

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The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
Ezekiel 37:1-10

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Good Friday…

    And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” And the chief priests accused him of many things. And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.
    Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” And they cried out again, “Crucify him.” And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.” So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
    And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.
    And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. And it was the third hour when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the cross!” So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
    And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
   
(Mark 15:1-39 ESV)

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Anonymous asked: I'm sorry but tags just aren't working and I am genuinely interested in finding out more about the bible. The law link just doesn't work for me. It's a Tumblr error for sure. Could you please provide a link? Or maybe you could do a faq page and put it in the sidebar. :)

Yeah, I’ve definitely tried that. Someone needs to tell me how do do a faq page… If you could help me with that, that would be awesome. So I’m just going to copy and paste the answer that I wrote to this person about if everything in the bible should be taken literally. Bear with me. =) I hope this works.

The question was:

“I’m sorry that I keep sending you asks I have a lot of questions about your views of your religion. I’ve asked these questions many times to many different people, but most of them tell me to read the bible and find out for myself, but really I’m asking about their own personal views and beliefs. So let me start off with, do you believe the Bible is to be taken literally and EVERYTHING in the Bible should be followed and practiced to a “T?”

MY RESPONSE:

Hey, I love that you’ve written me. Thanks for being patient with waiting for me to get back to you. I’ve been really busy. But I definitely would be honored to have this conversation with you and answer, to the best of my ability, any questions you have about what I believe and Christianity in general. SO, honestly, write them down and send them to me! I will not say “just go read the bible”, but I definitely will reference scripture so you can go and look at it so you know I’m telling you the truth. =) The only reason I can find where people would not answer your questions is that they are embarrassed by their ignorance. It should embarrass them and lead them to study up and know what they believe… So just maybe you have helped a few pansies get on the ball. lol

So, please ask away! =)

Yes I believe the bible should be taken literally because, its not just a book of beliefs… It is literally a historical record. So when you read a history book, you don’t look at it and say “should I take that literally or was it just a metaphor that God sent plagues on the Egyptian people”.  No, actually, that really happened. The scripture is a history of the people of God. The good, the bad, the ugly and the beauty.

It’s also full of wisdom, of which people can decide to follow or not. Its really up to you if you want to be wise or stupid. If you want to know how the world works, and how you should act, and how we should treat people, and how to invest, and how to work in politics, and how to have integrity then we look to all the struggles and triumphys that King David recorded in the Psalms. We also look to the Proverbs that David spoke to his son Solomon and also what Solomon received because of the wisdom God gave him. He was incredibly insightful, even though he ended up not practicing what he preached. 

There is also lots of prophesy in the Bible. Prophesy is something given by God to a prophet to tell the people about the future and what they need to do because of what is coming. Prophesy ONLY is true if it comes to pass… obviously. lol. All of the prophesies in the scripture speaking about Jesus and other things have either, definitely come to pass, or are yet to happen. There are 400 prophesies that Jesus fulfilled while he was just on the earth, things that were spoken about him thousands of years before. This is impossible. Literally. haha for instance… Prophesies about his birth, and where he would grow up and what his name would be. Those are just 3 that Jesus (as a human, if you believe he was only human) could not control. And if people say, “well, ok, his parents wanted to make a big hoax about it”… Then how do you explain away the other 400 prophesies that he fulfilled to a “T” if they played with just 3. =) I’m not one to just shut a subject down with out letting people debate that… But honestly… you just can’t explain that. And I have tried. =) lol

Then there is the Law… The law is at the beginning of the Bible, as it should be. In the book of Leviticus. I’m going to give a quick explanation as best I can right now… and it will fail to give the totality of information that you need to fully understand it, but I will try to give you a quick overview. I’m not trying to justify God’s actions or how harsh God’s law is… I am not God’s judge. He is not subject to my reason… HA! HE is so much Higher than us and his ways are higher than our ways and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. If he is holding the universe in place and I can only barely manage my schedule for college classes… HA, its laughable for me to even attempt to make God look cool or nice. He is totally capable of doing that himself. But what He has revealed about himself to us, what he has given us to understand about Him… I want to understand and I want you to understand and I want to know it like the back of my hand. Because I want to know God and I am now capable of knowing him, because Jesus has saved me from my sins which is what separated me from Him… Of which I will explain.

Here is the low down.

Lets start off with God is Holy. That means he is “set apart”. He is unlike us, or any other “gods” or any other “thing” or “person” or whatever… He is set apart… He better. He is Holy, and his Name is Holy. His Name is above any other name… Everything that describes how set apart he is, how holy He is should be used to describe His name… It is set apart, it is holy, it is better… He is Holy.

God created man, to actually look like Him (In his image). He created us to be in communication and to have a relationship with Him. He created us capable of having that with him. We were once amazingly holy and upright and were innocent. Adam (the first man God created) sinned on his own free will and that sin separated us from God’s holy presence. We were created to live, physically, forever. But at that moment death entered into our bodies and spirit and we became dead in our sin. (I know that is hard to grasp, but I’m trying to explain quickly). A lot of people ask me “well why didn’t God, who loves us, just fix what man had messed up immediately.” And again… Why do you think we know the totality of Gods mind? Why do you think we can think better than him or that our reasoning is better… Why should He? He made us amazing, he made us to even look like him and be like Him and we, through adam, turned against that… Why should God fix that? Why do we think He is obligated to do what we want… The only thing God is obligated to is his word, because He cannot lie and because His name is Holy, he protects his name and follows through with his word. SO… God, in his infinate mercy, for no reason what soever that I can think of or I wager that you can think of… other than He loved Adam and he loved man kind, declared a plan for our redemption. Genesis 3:!5 is the first prophesy of that redemption coming… The first prophesy about Jesus, and also a prophesy he definitely fulfilled thousands of years after mans “fall” into sin. God said “I will put enmity(hostility) between the woman and you (the serpent) and between your offspring and hers… He will crush your head and you will strike his heal”. The devil convinced the woman (eve) to sin against God… and at that moment all of her children became “children of wrath”. The new testament talks about how we all walked in darkness, we were all “by nature children of wrath”… (Ephesians 2) And we followed the prince of the power of this world, the one at work in the “children of disobedience”… Who are they? The children of Adam and Eve… Adam and Eve disobeyed God! We are their children… I hope this makes since, follow me… And So God says “I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers,” This is a prophesy about Mary, being the mother of Jesus, and saying that Jesus will be born of a human woman. And the devil and his “children” (people who are sinful) will strike his heal, but Jesus would crush his head. Meaning that Jesus would be wounded but will be victorious!

And, please know, that I’m not the one who just came up with that. Because if I were reading that scripture, I wouldn’t understand it firstly and definitely wouldn’t think that it was a prophesy about Jesus. Ha, but it is brought up later in scripture and revealed later on… But that is (again, the quick description of what I have been taught)

Now, In the garden there was this “tree of life” and if Adam would have eaten of the fruit of the tree of life after Adam had sinned and been separated from God… Then he, and we as his decedents would live forever in sin… Forever. There would have been no hope… That is why God closed off access to the tree of life immediately after man sinned. Because God had a plan to send Jesus to rescue us, not just from death physically… but spiritually. If Adam would have eaten of the tree of life, he would have lived forever, and would would have lived forever physically, but still we would be totally separate from God! The problem wasn’t death physically, it was death spiritually…

I think sometimes, “well, gosh, why didn’t God just give him the fruit and say ‘you know, you want to live separate from me, you want to be disobedient… here eat this fruit and you can live forever separated from me, in your miserable state! And I can sit and watch… I gave you so much and you disobeyed… Here, eat and live…. Live away from me so you can know what you have done to me!’”

But God didnt….. wow. God sent us away from that tree of life so that we could be redeemed! And then he gave us a law for us to practice until the time that Jesus came so that we could have a better relationship with him…

Men spread rampant and became extremely violent… God came to men who sought after Him, like Noah… But men were literally so violent and kept killing each other that God wiped them out.  It was recorded that “every intention of mans heart [was] evil”, and full of murder. God destroyed that. One thing that belongs to God and is sacred to God is blood, because our very life is in the blood… And men were spilling blood like it was no big deal… God judged them and destroyed them, but saved Noah and his family.

Then men continued to spread across the planet… And God met up with a man named Abram who believed in many Gods. And God told Abram that He was the only God, and told him to leave his life worshiping these false idols and leave his fathers house and go where God would tell him to go… (THIS IS WHERE FAITH COMES IN)… Abram heard this and “believed” God… HA! That is a big deal! Abram worshiped other gods but when the LORD spoke to him, Abram actually believed him… And hear this and remember this… The bible says “And Abraham (He got a new name later) believed God and it was accounted unto him as ‘RIGHTEOUSNESS”!!! Abraham literally became the father of “faith”… We refer to him as the father of our faith because he heard for God and just believed… (this comes back in the story later)…

God blessed Abraham and told him that he would be the “father” of many nations… [This was literally and spiritually.]***** That is very important. From Abraham came Isaac who had Jacob who was renamed by God “Israel”… Ring a bell? lol. From Jacob/Israel came the nation of Israel, the Hebrews, the Jews… One in the same. These were/are Gods chosen people. People he blessed to have the honor and opportunity to dwell with Him and worship Him and bear his NAME! As you will read in the bible that Israel would often rebel against him and not follow his law… But God didn’t turn his back on them because he loved them AND because he gave their father Abraham his name!

Mk, so Israel goes into captivity in Egypt and God raises up a Hebrew who he saves from annihilation at his birth, who was raised in the place of Pharaoh to rescue the people from slavery in Egypt. His name is MOSES! (i like him. lol) And God meets with Moses and speaks to him… and tells Moses that he is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel… This is a big deal, because Moses then knows he can trust this God, but doesn’t know his name.. Because God’s name is sacred. God tells Moses what to do and Moses says “who shall I say sent me?” And God says “tell them ‘I AM’ has sent you.” God reveals his name to Moses! And Moses goes and tells them and Pharaoh goes against this name, God’s name, which is Holy and powerful and because of this… God plagues Egypt to save his people from their brutal captivity…

The law was strict and the consequences for breaking it severe…  But just following the law couldn’t redeem us, just as much as eating from the tree of life couldn’t redeem us. And in fact, it was impossible to follow the law to the “T”… no one was capable of doing it and fulfilling Gods demands… The Hebrews continually broke it and rebelled… And were punished for it. Because God’s bar is set so high. So high! Who are we to be with God? But God wanted to dwell with men, and blessed Israel and was faithful to Israel and didn’t leave Israel and he protected them and loved them and still does to this day. Over and over they would go into captivity and they cried out for a Messiah (meaning the anointed one)… The man who would come and free them from captivity. All through out the history of the Jews you find them paining for a Messiah…

Then a very hard time comes. Something like 500 years Israel went with out a Prophet. A Prophet was a big deal because God would speak through the prophet to his people about the future and what they should do… (As I mentioned before)… Israel is now in Roman captivity…….

But then……

Then the day came, that we just recently celebrated, that God would begin the process to redeem man. Jesus, the Messiah for Israel, the Redeemer, was born of that woman who was prophesied about of from the very beginning. Israel had gone so long without hearing from God in yet the Messiah was prophesied to be called “Emanuelle” meaning “God with us”… HA, Jesus literally means (God with us). =) And Jesus fulfilled all the prophesies that were spoken about his life here on earth. Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, and literally came to testify of the TRUTH! That was the reason he was born. But what is most satisfying to the wrath God had against mans disobedience from the very beginning… Jesus literally did what man wasn’t capable of doing… Jesus FULFILLED the law! That is MASSIVE! As we have said, that was impossible… But Jesus did. =)

Like we have said, death entered into man and the penalty for our redemption was death. And like I said in the message about Mormonism… For someone to be able to fulfill the law and redeem us all from our sins, from the very beginning… They had to be infinite, be sinless, be obedient, die, and come back to life physically. (there is so much more theology that is amazing that I am not adding but its simply vast and immeasurable and what we are capable of knowing about it, its incredible).

So Jesus fulfilled the law which no man could do.

Jesus was the Messiah for Israel which no man man could be.

Jesus grafted people who were not apart of the Jewish race, into the family of God. People who are not Jewish can now become apart of Gods people.

Jesus declared that salvation and redemption could only happen by “FAITH” in his “NAME” and confession of sin against God. And since Jesus did all of this for us… And since God has proven that he is faithful… And since God promised Abraham to make him a father of many nations… Then He’s not kidding around and a very good Jew wrote “If you confess your sins, He is faithful and just to forgive your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness.”. And he definitely does that.

It is by grace that we have been saved from hell, and death.. and that is through faith. It is the most radical idea when it comes to all other religions… Because no religion is like this. No religion can stand up to this reason. No religion can compare to this organization and love and follow through by a God who adores his people. NO OTHER RELIGION can stand against this truth that the Lord Jesus Christ was born to testify of. There is none like the God of the Christians. He is set completely apart… Why???

Because He is Holy.

=)

I know that is long, i didnt think i would write this much. But chew on that and let me know what you think. =) I mean this with all of the love and passion I have in my heart for you to know the truth. I know in whom I have believed… And he has proven through history that he is able to keep what I have committed to him, which is my life. I’m convinced. And I know that if you keep asking questions that God will speak the truth to you because I promised Him that I would say whatever He has for me to say… No matter how good or hard it is to hear. I’m going to tell you the truth. Because He is worthy, after all that he did for me and for you, for me to give whatever I have to you. Because it is all from Him.

Let me know if this answers your question… what Im about to say.

-Do I believe the Bible is to be taken literally and EVERYTHING in the Bible should be followed and practiced to a “T”….

Jesus came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. The law is still the law of God… But REDEMPTION and SALVATION CANNOT, CANNOT, CANNOT be found by following the law and practicing it to a “t”… And if you are trying to receive redemption and salvation by following the law, you condemn yourself… because if you break one part of it you break it ALL. AND Because Jesus is the ONLY WAY to redemption and salvation. period.

Does that make since?

The law is holy but it has no salvation power. And Jesus came to give us FREEDOM! Freedom from the curse of the law, which was, if you broke it, came sickness and death…

IT IS FOR FREEDOM that Christ has set us free! And if we are trying to be justified by doing the law of God… we alienate ourselves from Christ. Because we are trying to make ourselves “good” and trying to deserve it. YOU DON’T DESERVE God’s grace, none of us do.

So we have freedom, but not freedom to run around sinning. By no means. What we are suppose to follow and practice to a “t” is to serve one another in love. Salvation is not found in that (Like I have already said)… BUT THE ENTIRE LAW IS SUMMED UP IN ONE SINGLE COMMAND….. Get ready.

“Love your neighbor as yourself”… Yes, we are obligated to do take that literally and to practice that…. to a “T”.

=)

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ahappygirl asked: My mother used to work at a crisis pregnancy center. Girls would come in all the time with stories about how they were treated at PP. At Planned Parenthood, the workers are told to not give any reason not to have an abortion. If a woman is unsure, they are to convince them to have one anyway. At Planned Parenthood, the workers are instructed to turn the monitor screen away from the mothers so that they cannot see the baby or its heartbeat. Let's not argue about the morality of PP. It's clear.

I hear about this all the time. It’s so sad and that is why we need to be here for girls. Lets promote crisis pregnancy centers. They offer free, confidential care. Thank your mom for what she does.

Let’s get the word out.

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Anonymous asked: Well the most effective way to prevent abortion is through promoting birth control and comprehensive sex education, so I'm not really sure how your message fits into that. Telling people that god wants them to be abstinent when they don't believe in your god is terribly unproductive.

I don’t tell people that God wants them to be abstinent when I’m in a public school… Unless they ask me. I give them facts. The fact is that I want to protect kids. They need to know about their body and I am all for that. they need to know the risks of sex… I don’t promote experimenting to find out those risks and consequences… Thats retarded. You tell them the truth, about disease, responsibility, and their value and dignity as human beings. Sex is a big deal. Kids need to protect themselves, emotionally, physically, and socially. Period.

Abstinence is good. how is that unproductive? People need to learn to control themselves. How is this bad?

See… I’m not really interested in getting into it any further because you know that I’m being logical. I’m a realist. I know people have sex, but you also understand that I am for people being responsible. There are plenty of studies out about this… so, why don’t you do some googling. =)

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Anonymous asked: I don't understand. I mean this as genuinely as possible. I don't understand how Christians pick and choose from the Bible what they want to relate to modern day life. For example, there are verses in the Bible saying that disobedient children should be killed, victims of rape are to marry their rapist, and parents can sell their children. It has has many references of slavery. But you're not going around trying to enforce those verses, are you? And why not?

i definitely get what you’re saying.

I wrote a detailed answer to someone who asked me “should every thing in the bible be taken literally”. Let me tag this response to you with “the law”. Click on it and it should come up… if not, i know its a pain but check back through my blog for that question. I definitely think it will be worth your time to read. If you can’t find it… write me back and I’ll just copy and paste it into this message.

Let me know, because its messages like these that I really care people get an answer to.

thanks. =)

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Anonymous asked: the bible also teaches against speaking to women when they're on their period and wearing synthetic materials. I'm assuming you don't let anyone speak to you when it's that time of the month and you also own no polyester clothes, right? the bible isn't meant to be taken literally word-for-word. the overall message of the bible is love and forgiveness. you could learn some of that yourself. I'm sending you this message because I want you to STOP hating people and start loving them.- please answer

i answered this question when it comes to the law… I will tag this message “the law” and what you can do is click on it and it should pull up another ask that I received about if we should take every word in the bible literally. it will be worth your time to read and should answer this.

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Anonymous asked: So basically my father, who is a good man, a loving man, attends church every Sunday, volunteers his time and money at charities, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, pays vet bills for injured stray animals, will go to hell because he's gay and loves another man who has been with for 15 years? Do you HONESTLY believe that?

I believe, just as the scripture teaches that you can’t do enough good to get to heaven. There isn’t a good enough person who will be able to go to heaven based on all that they have done.

There is NO ONE who is good enough, or who does enough to merit heaven or merit redemption.

We are all bad and sinful by our nature. Period. That is the depravity of humanity. The only way to be saved from hell and to go to heaven is by turning from your sin, repenting of your sin, confessing your sin to God, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, and believing that God raised him from the dead. That is the only way to heaven. Jesus. Not attending church, not giving everything away, not “doing”…

Salvation is a gift of God. You can’t purchase it. You can’t bargain for it, or earn it. We ONLY receive salvation through grace. Because we dont deserve it. We all deserve to die in our sin and spend eternity in hell. The scripture teaches that. That is the gravity of sin. Its wages is death… period. And yes, you can earn that!

But you can’t earn salvation. Thats why we arent able to boast about it. Because if we were good enough, then we could say “well i go to church, and i pay my tithes, and i give to the poor, and I pray, and I this, and I that”…

Salvation doesn’t work that way. We aren’t capable. Literally, we aren’t capable of making ourselves good enough. Only through Jesus can we be saved from hell. Period.

That is what scripture teaches. God doesn’t want anyone to perish or die in their sin, and that is why he made salvation available to us… what a gift. But we have to come to him and obey His way. Because there is no other way… at all. The only way to heaven, the only way to salvation, the only way to life is Jesus.

He has made it clear how to be saved from hell. And he didn’t have to. But since it is made clear, you need to know, and so does your family.

You must know that I am saying this with all compassion I have. You, again, are worth more than me beating around the bush.

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