What must I do to be saved?

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What must I do to be saved?
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Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother and go, sell everything you have and give the proceeds to the poor, then follow Jesus.
 
Ah, just what I was looking for! 😛 Acts <3

But, is not faith alone heresy? I wish to be with Jesus after my death. How can this happen?

(BTW, that other part was not literal. Jesus was basically showing that no one is perfect, and that we need Jesus to be saved.) 😉
 
Robert_Michael said:
Ah, just what I was looking for! 😛 Acts <3

But, is not faith alone heresy? I wish to be with Jesus after my death. How can this happen?
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No, who says it is heresy? Perhaps the rules for admission into heaven are not as rigid as which doctrine you adhere to and more about your desire for God?
 
So, as a Lutheran, I can follow Jesus and Jesus will love me?

I want to love Jesus. I just want Him to love me too.
 
Robert_Michael said:
So, as a Lutheran, I can follow Jesus and Jesus will love me?

I want to love Jesus. I just want Him to love me too.
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I don’t want to be patronising. Loving Jesus and following Him are what it is all about, the question is to what extent? The more you know God the easier it is to truly follow Him. Does Jesus love Lutherans but not Anglicans? If you know God, the question sounds ridiculous, yet it is likely true that one path adheres to Jesus more fully than the other!

It’s like going to the best university.
 
FightingFat said:
I don’t want to be patronising. Loving Jesus and following Him are what it is all about, the question is to what extent? The more you know God the easier it is to truly follow Him. Does Jesus love Lutherans but not Anglicans? If you know God, the question sounds ridiculous, yet it is likely true that one path adheres to Jesus more fully than the other!

It’s like going to the best university.
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Yes fightingfat. Perhaps you could say, though, that one religion compared to another is more l ikely to stick more fully to what Jesus teaches than the other. One Church does teach that fullness of His Truth. It is the Catholic Church.

It’s like going to the best possible teaching intitution you can find.(do like that):DCarlan
 
Robert_Michael said:
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“Baptism now saves you” 1 Peter 3:21

Baptism is the intial grace necessary for salvation. Faith and obedience must follow. Faith without keeping the commandments is a dead faith and you cannot be saved.
( see James 2:14-26)

Confession and repentance are a part of that saving faith.

St.Paul makes it clear that we are not save by faith alone “and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing” (1 Cor. 13:2 )

"So faith, hope, love abide, these three; gut the greatest of these is love” (1 Cor 13:13 )

How do we express love for God? 1 John 5:1-3 “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the parent love the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome”

We are not saved by Faith Alone. It is a process that lasts a lifetime.
 
FightingFat said:
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother and go, sell everything you have and give the proceeds to the poor, then follow Jesus.
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Yes fightingfat. Perhaps you could say, though, that one religion compared to another is more l ikely to stick more fully to what Jesus teaches than the other. One Church does teach that fullness of His Truth. It is the Catholic Church.
Devis comparatif mutuelle sante |Comparateur mutuelles sante |Comparer comparatif mutuel
 
“’It is necessary to hasten to learn in what way forgiveness of sins and a hope of inheritance of the promised good things may be yours. There is no other way than this: acknowledge this Christ, be washed in the washing announced by Isaias (11) for the
forgiveness of sins; and henceforth live sinlessly.’”

source: Jurgens, William A. The Faith of the Early Fathers Volume 1, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville: 1970. (pg. 60)

I’m fond of this quote of St. Justin Martyr and think that it lays out the Catholic position well; especially if we keep in mind that there is a distinction between mortal and venial sins when we read the words, ‘…and henceforth live sinlessly.’
 
What must you do to be saved? What does the Scriptures say? How did the apostles answer this? BELIEVE on the Lord Jesus and thou SHALL be saved. But to believe means much more than mere belief. It means to comprehend who Jesus was and what He accomplished at Calvary.

The apostles NEVER said follow a sacramental system and obey the church, rules and rituals, and maybe you’ll be saved.

Eternal salvation is a FREE gift. That’s why many stumble on this. A lot of people think they must DO something. But do what? Isaiah says our most righteous acts are filthy rags before God. There is nothing we can DO. That’s why Christ did it all with the shedding of His blood. Our responsibility is to accept this gift and go and tell others. As we carry out the Great Commission as commanded by Christ, and seek to live a godly life, there are heavenly rewards. We strive for those crowns/rewards, but not for salvation. There is NOTHING we can do to earn or work for it.
 
JacobG said:
What must you do to be saved? What does the Scriptures say? How did the apostles answer this?
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More pertinent is how did Jesus answer this!!!.
You need to stop taking one verse and ignoring the rest, that will lead you into certain error.

We need to do all that Jesus commanded us.
 
Robert_Michael said:
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Is your real question, what must I do to be saved or is it really, what must I do to go to heaven? We are saved through baptism, when we are given new life, free of prior sins, complete with sufficient grace to be saved. However, we must stay in the state of grace until we die to gain eternal life in heaven. This means we must do the will of God (summarized as loving God and our neighbors) and refrain from mortal sin. However, if we do fall from grace, God allows us to be reconciled to him sacramentally through the sacrament of reconciliation (confession). Because he is perfectly merciful, he will take us back as often as we truly ask him to.
 
JacobG said:
The apostles NEVER said follow a sacramental system and obey the church, rules and rituals, and maybe you’ll be saved.
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I disagree. It is not possible to be a full follower of Christ outside of his Church…the Holy Catholic Church.

But one thing the apostles never did was tell people to say the Sinner’s Prayer and that they would then be saved for all time no matter what.
 
FightingFat said:
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household. Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother and go, sell everything you have and give the proceeds to the poor, then follow Jesus.
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To that, must be added…"Baptism…now saves you!"1Pet3:21.
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What must you do to be saved?

Nothing! There is no need for salvation! You need to live your life and enjoy it, because it’s anyone’s guess what (if anything) follows this life! You need to follow your heart, and your own moral code.

The idea of ‘salvation’ is nothing more than a scare tactic to assume control over people.

That is my belief. We all have beliefs. You must find adopt your own!
 
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