Church, Become Experts on Salvation Doctrine, and Stop Being Strangely Untaught about It

Concerning a Problem in the Church’s Knowledge about Salvation Doctrine

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From “Riptide”, by Lorena McCourtney, Chapter Eighteen

“Salvation and the eternal life that comes after this one are a free gift from God.  All we have to do is accept that gift.”

“But we have to accept it in this lifetime?”

He felt a chill inch up his spine at the implication in her words. “Yes, that’s true.”

“No second chances?”

“God does offer second chances! Over and over. He doesn’t give up on us--”

“But only in this lifetime.” … “And you’re saying that because Julie didn’t grab this gift before she was killed, that she’s lost and condemned forever?”

“We have only this life in which to make our choices--” He broke off, uneasy with the holier-than-thou sound of that.

“But Julie was murdered! That wasn’t her choice! If God had protected and given her more time, maybe she’d have made the choice he demands. She was a good person, Nick! Sunny and sweet and caring, always doing things for people.” A blaze suddenly flared in her eyes. “And what about my parents? They didn’t go to church, but they were the best, most wonderful and generous people I’ve ever known! And they’re condemned too?”

“We can’t save ourselves by being … nice guys and doing good deeds.” He said the words with a troubled reluctance, knowing that this truth could be a fatal stumbling block for someone outside the faith. “As Christians we should do all the good deeds we can. We honor God by doing them. Our faith is expressed through them. But--”

“So you’re telling me that Julie’s killer still has a chance to believe and be forgiven. But Julie and my folks are lost forever. The pearly gates—” She edged the phrase with sarcastic scorn. “—are forever closed to them. But the killer still has a chance to walk right through.”

Nick flexed his fingers. This was not an easy tenet of Christian belief.

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Well, that’s certainly troubling.  “...a chill inch up his spine”, “...uneasy with the holier-than-thou sound of that”, “...a troubled reluctance..a fatal stumbling block for someone outside the faith.” “This was not an easy tenet of Christian belief.”

Church, God foreknew us and chose us in Him before the foundation of the world!  We don’t have to worry about circumstances like this at all!  He is the one who calls to us, and we respond by calling back to Him.  He is not limited in controlling the events of our lives! Oh, how I mourn the Church for being so tentative, reluctant and troubled at the false image of salvation doctrine that causes one to actually be holier-than-thou in a wrong way that leads to a dreadful fear that salvation doctrine is not an easy tenet of Christianity!

In this situation, as in all real life situations, God has total control over everything that happens to a person.  He allows the unsaved to have some good things, because He is good.  He calls from the edge of the pit every single one whom His Father gave to Him to save.  He finished His work – not on the cross only, though it was “Paid in full” then – but also inside our persons as He secures us, BECAUSE HIS FATHER GAVE HIM A MANDATE TO DO SO!  He did not fail His Father.  He does not fail even one whom His Father gave to Him.  See it, dear, silly, frightened, mistaught Church!  See it, and be very glad!  Look for the verses that give you hope, and make a full commitment to Him so that you can have a full assurance of that hope.  Your work in understanding and giving into Him by believing His death is effective to save and that God raised Him again from the dead, and then calling on His name due to those beliefs – these works of ours are things He will cause us to do, if His Father gave us to Him, and these works are things we can never properly do – not with sincere faith and confession – if His Father did not give us to Him, because the entire work is supernatural.  He saves us, to His everlasting glory.

We are all – fine parents and Hitler alike – all worthy of death!  It is God’s glory that He does save some, and those He saves, I am convinced, are every single person who, under SOME circumstances of life (though the Bible doesn’t say it as far as I know), WILL call back to His call, and so God puts us in the circumstances and does call us, and we do call Him back.

This is the essence of salvation doctrine.  It is God who chooses, and He is the paragon of everything good we ever thought of, and so we know that His election of His own is not only certain, but it is the right choice!

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Jesus is The Father's only sired Son, Whom He sent to Earth to live the life of a man in order to be eligible to become a perfect sacrifice for the sin of all humanity. Your hate is only part of the corruption that enslaves all of humanity, and the corruption of our bodies makes it clear that we would resist being in God's presence. Even your attempt to think He is not real is an attempt to keep your corrupted and enslaved mind as far as possible away from Him in all ways! Fall on Jesus Christ, and He will break you into pieces. Do not let Him fall on you, because He will crush you. If you believe that He died for the purpose of atoning for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that God raised Him from the dead on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that He was seen afterward by Peter, and the twelve disciples, and then by over 500 brothers at once, most of whom were still alive when Paul wrote to the Corinthian church this formulation of the gospel that he was also given, and then Jesus Christ was seen by James, and then the Apostles, and then by Paul, and if you, believing these things, confess with your mouth "Master Jesus", then you will be saved, and you will be glad to be free, accepting Him in your whole person, though your body will still be corrupted until the glorification of the saints, when we see Him in the body as He is and are changed.

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