Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Originally posted by: Crono
Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
Originally posted by: Crono
Every single religion that exists says you can be saved by what YOU do (which is nothing but pride), but God says it is what HE has done by allowing His son to die on the cross for you. Man cannot save himself from sin.
Spare us. :roll:
The question was which religions are peaceful. Not which religions you think are
right. It's sh1t like this that causes tension between different groups of people.
IMHO you have a little too much
pride in the tenants of YOUR religion.
Define peace. Then examine what causes there not to be peace. The answer is that people do not know Truth. Without Truth, people disagree, and there is conflict. All I want to do is share the Truth of of the Word of God, so that people may also know the peace that I have in salvation- not through anything whatsoever I have done. I am weak, I am evil, I am completely unworthy of any good thing- and so are you, so is the president, so was our great grandfather to the x power (Adam), and so is every person on the face of this planet. There is definitely some pride that lingers within me that will surface every once and again, because I am not perfected in the image of Christ, and won't be until He comes again. I am not proud in the "tenants of [my] religion", because that would imply that I have some claim of worthiness. As Paul said: not I, but Christ; He alone is worthy of glory and honor. If I claim anything, I rob Him of the glory and honor due to His name. May it never be.
You don't know truth any more than anyone else. You believe truth.. not know it, there's a fine line of difference.
What is the difference? As I see it, the only difference between believing and knowing is the level of confidence. I know that God exists as much, if not more, than I know that I am sitting on a chair right now. Physical things are observed by the 5 senses, and my senses or your senses are not always reliable. But the changing of the heart, which comes about when a person is saved and the Holy Spirit comes into his/her life, transcends what the eyes see or what the ears hear. When a person is saved, he/she moves from spiritual death into life. One must be born again, of the spirit, in order to move from a sentence of eternal death into eternal life.
This I
know without doubt because I have been born again by the grace and mercy of God. A person who is spiritually dead cannot undertand fully the Truth of the Word, except for the fact that he/she is spiritually dead and needs salvation. Without being born again, you cannot understand that which is spiritual. An unsaved person trying to understand Truth is like a man, blind from birth, trying to imagine what it is like to see. You must be healed first of your blindess before you can see. You yourself cannot cure your blindness, but that is what every religion (or lack thereof) trys to teach. Ony One can save, and He was the One who died for the sins of all mankind. All you need to do to be saved is: 1) Acknowledge that you are a sinner 2) Acknowledge that you need salvation, and that only God can save you 3) Realize that Christ loves you and died for your sins 4) Accept that gift of salvation that Christ provided by asking Him to come into your life and change your heart
If you pray to God with those things in mind and with a sense of humility and an earnest desire for Him, you will be saved. You can't come to God with a proud heart; read the
tale of two sons (aka "the prodigal son") and note the attitude of the younger son when he has reached rock bottom and decides to return to get an idea of the attitude that is required. Everyone is like one of those sons: either the prodigal son before or after he returned, or the older son. Ask yourself: "Which one am I?" I know that for me, I was like the prodigal, but because of the grace of God, I am saved.