NOT SCRIPTURE!
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 Why "Not Scripture"? 99% of the faith is based on scripture. Impossible to explain or defend absent of scripture.
God loves us. God banishes Satan to live on the same planet as us and gives him the ability to corrupt us and drag us to hell.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 Free will. I guess satan/devil/...whatever you want to call him/her, is walking with us. Or maybe not...haven't thought about it much. I can say this...after 10 years in the Marine Corps, I've seen my share of things to lead me to believe that there is most certainly "evil" in this world. I don't think he/she so much "drags" us to hell...more like a lot of people decide to go down that path of their own free will....there's that thing again, "free will".
God sacrifices himself so that if you believe in him and do what it says in a book that was written by men you will be spared and satan will not get you.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 We kinda have to believe that the "men" were divinely inspired. We also have to believe that God would not allow men to corrupt the only instrument we have to base our faith on.
God can only save less than 35% of his creations.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 This is the first I've heard of this....I'm Baptist...nowhere in the Bible does it give a number of those that will be/could be saved.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Not 35%...Not 1/4....Not 144,000....
WHOEVER.
It doesnt matter how good of a person you are, if you dont believe in the holy book, you will burn in hell for eternity.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 Mark 16:16 - "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned"
John 3:18,36 - "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but
he that believeth not is condemned already .... He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him".
Acts 16:30-31 "Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house".
Romans 10:9 "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved".
Galatains 2:16 - "A man is
not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ".
Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
not of works, lest any man should boast".
Titus 3:5 "
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost".
But...there's more. Because, if you truly are saved, your actions will reflect it. Pay attention to this next one...it's very important:
Matthew 7: 21-23 - "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them,
I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
But he loves us all....
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24992699 Yes....He does. Amazing isn't it?
Carry on.
