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To: StormPrepper
There are the righteous on the right hand and the unrighteous on the left hand.

The righteous did the "good works" as a result of following Christ. The righteous are those who have faith in Christ.

The unrighteous do not have faith in Christ.

Do you really think that an unsaved person, that is one without faith in Christ, gains Heaven by doing good deeds?

And Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. What "good work" had Abraham done prior to that to "earn" his righteousness?

826 posted on 06/02/2015 8:41:54 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone
Do you really think that an unsaved person, that is one without faith in Christ, gains Heaven by doing good deeds?

How many times do I have to say no to this before you hear me?

How many times do I have to keep repeating that salvation comes through Jesus Christ, but we have to do as He commands before He will give us salvation. How many times do I have to keep repeating that statement before you hear me?

And Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. What "good work" had Abraham done prior to that to "earn" his righteousness?

James 1
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Gen 26
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.


Jesus will not save you for belief alone.

James 2
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.


Do you really believe that faith alone will save you?
828 posted on 06/02/2015 9:23:58 AM PDT by StormPrepper
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