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Salvation: How Assured Are You That You Will Escape Hell? Created: 8/24/2008 | Last Vote: 58 hours ago | Comment: 2 months ago

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9/22/09 6:06 PM John UK  | Wales    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments sharing this with you wrote: "The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone." (J. C. Ryle) Correct! 8/28/09 4:47 AM chuen  | Washington State    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments I totally agree with Mercy's comment on 10/25/08. Because it happened to me. Several months ago, I was at a very low point of my life. I made a decision to turn away from sin. I knew I was sinning against God. I promised God I would never do that again. It was my true repentance. At that moment, the Holy Spirit came upon me and dwell in me. An overwhelming sense of peace washed over me. God supernaturally took away my worldly desire and replaced it with a new desire to live a godly life. All of a sudden what I liked to do in the past, I no longer like to do. My heart was renewed and in line with God's. I started having growing thirst for God's words. I have been studying Bible. I download sermons and teachings from many pastors, theologians, and scholars. I put them in my MP3 player and listen to them all the time at least 4 hours a day. I just can't get enough of them. I used to think Bible was boring. Now I love it. Before my conversion, I had no clue what it would be like to be saved. No one told me what happened to me was my conversion. The Holy Spirit just revealed that to me. I also have the urge to minister to others to bring them to Christ. I was never that way before. Can any one tell me if you have the similar experience? 8/17/09 12:00 PM webwatch    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Parables wrote: Bless you too. Truly. Thank You. May the blessing of eternal life through Jesus Christ be yours. Parables wrote: I know "parables" are not just an interesting title we give to the numerous teachings of Jesus in the gospel accounts. It is indeed a truth, but the truth is IN the parable. Almighty God aims to make the crooked straight and the rough places to be plain (Luke 3:4-5). Sinful mankind too easily aims to take the simple and make it complicated. "...the simplicity that is in Christ..." - 2 Corinthians 11:3 "...I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked...when I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction." (Psalm 73) 8/17/09 12:18 AM Parables  | New Zealand    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments webwatch wrote: Parable of the Net - Matthew 13 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like... Bless you too. Truly. I know "parables" are not just an interesting title we give to the numerous teachings of Jesus in the gospel accounts. It is indeed a truth, but the truth is IN the parable. Of course you don't believe the kingdom of heaven is a net, or that there is a shoreline, or that "sitting down" is God sitting down, or vessels are vessels. Pictures are pictures. There is a thousand words behind each one. You believe the kingdom is LIKE a net, people are LIKE a sea, there is something LIKE a beach. The actions and events thereafter are LIKENED to the real thing. And what is the blazing furnace LIKENED to? Has Jesus defined what a blazing furnace is before? Or has our theology books and pulpit defined it us? "Have you understood all these things?" Jesus asked. How is it we are more compelled take the fire matters literally yet do not take the water events literally? Is there really a sea, a lake, a furnace? A lake of fire? A good water and fire mixture? Some sort of divine-heavenly chemistry? Correlate all the "fire" mentioned in the OT and NT and perhaps its purpose and representation will become clearer. 8/16/09 11:40 PM webwatch    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Disagree wrote: All will definitely eventually obtain salvation from sin. Because that is God's loving will...eventual reconciliation of all to God Parable of the Net - Matthew 13 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:47-50) Good and bad are clearly sorted out with the bad cast out into a furnace of fire. This is not a popular doctrine but it is Biblical truth. May the LORD be your light and salvation. (Psalm 27) 8/16/09 11:23 PM Disagree  | New Zealand    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments webwatch wrote: Universalism has become sadly common even among evangelicals... Here's how universalism can be defined from Wikipedia..." Let definitions just be definitions. For them to be understood by any groups of people in exact like manner is totally impossible. "Universalism" does not INCLUDE other religions. People do not know God through Hinduism, not through Buddhism, not through Islam. There is no such thing as a Hinduism who knows God. But they will all have to be reconciled to Christ in order to have spiritual life and to know God. All will definitely eventually obtain salvation from sin. Because that is God's loving will. But only a few will be saved in this age as children of God. That is also God's will. The rest remain as the children of wrath as we all once have been. God does not get wounded by our sin. WE have been wounded by our sin. Christ was wounded FOR our sin. God has setup the world so that we sin, and through suffering we know Christ, and through Christ we know God - who is love. The definitions of universalism used against universalism have been pathetic and were probably created by people who hate the idea of eventual reconciliation of all to God and who have not a good understanding of it, if any. 8/16/09 10:33 PM Agree  | New Zealand    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments TheFacts wrote: "Man's depravity, as a result of the Fall, is total. All men are born into this world spiritually dead, blind, and deaf to the things of God; the sinner's heart is desperately corrupt. His will is not free; it is in bondage to his evil nature..." Well stated and totally agreeable. Every knee will bow and tongue confess, but it does not happen for the unbelievers in an instant at judgement. There is another age waiting for them before they will be saved. "His evil nature is in bondage to his will"? How can that possibly be? Man cannot possibly select to be in his evil nature or his good and righteous nature at the simple twitching of his will. It's hard enough to choose whether to get up in the morning sometimes. "There is none righteous", "There is none good but God" has said enough that his will is EVIL! Utterly depraved. Utterly sad history of humanity of nothing but sin, war, and death at all different levels of severity. Selecting evil over good, selfishness over love, seems a bit biased in society at the moment. And the will of man is free? Free from what? Free from sin? Free from spiritual death? Free from bondage and decay? Free from God? 5/8/09 2:10 AM KK  | USA    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Men who discount the freewill of man are the very same who disregard the many "WARNINGS" IN GOD'S WORD -- Yes, they have failed to "HEAR" GOD"S .. T R U T H .. CONCERNING "The Matters of The Heart" !!! Consider what Jesus told Peter in Matthew 18:23-35 23) ... The Kingdom of Heaven is like a human king who wished to settle accounts with his attendants. There will be a reckoning --- and men, in their desire to have NO ACCOUNTABILTY, preach/teach a nonexistent sLoPpY grace that perverts GOD'S TRUE NATURE (*SPACIFICALLY HIS MERCY*) -- men want so to make for themselves a god that requires nothing and offers everything ... masters of compromise. Each and every one of us owes a debt we cannot pay and some of us have fallen on our knees begging for GOD'S FORGIVENESS ["IN" CHRIST AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS] AND GOD FORGAVE AND CANCELLED our debt. Each of us must acknowledge the .. T R U T H .. in that story/parable Jesus spoke to Peter --- THAT FOOL THOUGHT HE WAS SECURE HAVING BEEN LIBERATED/ABSOLVED OF HIS INSURMOUNTABLE DEBT. - Dare we think ourselves to be SECURE within the "ReLiGiOuS" UNBALANCED teachings of men WHEN GOD'S WORD SAYS OTHERWISE ??? - BEST .. H E A R .. Matthew 18:23-35 it holds far reaching consequence that men have not spoken. Veritas Vincit !!! KK 11/28/08 5:07 PM sharing this with you    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments "The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone." (J. C. Ryle) 11/19/08 2:54 PM TheFacts    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments TheRealFacts wrote: His evil nature is in bondage to his will. Another "free will" advocate who would do salvation by human effort. Are you Roman Catholic or Roman (Arminian) Catholic or Roman (non-Reformed) Catholic or just plain old Roman (DIY salvation) Catholic. 11/18/08 5:48 PM TheRealFacts    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments TheFacts wrote: His will is not free; it is in bondage to his evil nature. His evil nature is in bondage to his will. 11/18/08 4:58 PM TheFacts    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments "Man's depravity, as a result of the Fall, is total. All men are born into this world spiritually dead, blind, and deaf to the things of God; the sinner's heart is desperately corrupt. His will is not free; it is in bondage to his evil nature. Therefore, he has lost his ability to choose good over evil in the spiritual realm. It takes more than the Spirit's assistance to bring the sinner to Christ -it takes regeneration by which the Spirit makes the sinner alive and gives him a new nature. Faith is not something man contributes to salvation but is itself a part of God's gift of salvation - it is God's gift to the sinner, not the sinner's gift to God." Psalm 51:5, 58:3; Isaiah 53:6, 64:6; Jeremiah 17:9; John 3:3, 8:44; Romans 3:10-12, 5:12; Ephesians 2:2-3; I Corinthians 2:14 Doctrines of Grace 11/17/08 6:42 AM webwatch    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Universalism has become sadly common even among evangelicals. Some have said that Christians and non-Christians worship the same god. Here's how universalism can be defined from Wikipedia: "Universalism can be classified as a religion, theology and philosophy that generally holds all persons and creatures are related to God or the Divine and will be reconciled to God. A church or community that calls itself Universalist may emphasize the universal principles of most religions and accept other religions in an inclusive manner, believing in a universal reconciliation between humanity and the divine. Many religions may have a degree of Universalist theology in their tenets and principles, including Christianity, Hinduism, New Thought spirituality. A common principle is that love is a universal binding force". "Smile, God loves you" fits well on a bumper sticker but the Justice of God requires that some (many) will burn in hell who have dishonored and wounded God and others in sin but have not repented and entered into a saving relationship with the one and only Savior, Jesus Christ. Universalism is the (false) doctrine that all will obtain salvation. The Bible makes distinctions between between sheep and goats and between "children of God" and "children of wrath". 11/16/08 1:57 PM Ashlar    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments This assured.... 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 10/26/08 5:21 PM webwatch    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mercy and TIH, I think we agree that there is a type of faith that saves and a type that doesn't save. Discernment is needed to know if we have the saving type of faith. In fact, the Scriptures teach that there is a strong faith that can move mountains but leaves us as nothing. 1Corinthians 13:2 "...though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity (love), I am nothing" I think we agree that saving faith puts us into a vital relationship with Christ. Our faith must be in the True Christ because there are false Christs. False Christs are figments of men's wishes and imaginations. The True Christ who warned that a king shall say: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." "...there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect". (Matthew 24:24) If we know the True, saving Christ, we know that He suffered. Those who are Christ-like will also suffer. Love suffers long and is kind (1 Corinthians 13:4) 10/26/08 4:41 PM There is Hope  | United States    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mercy wrote: Faith is not in its strength, but in the object - namely the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the one with little faith, or the one with strong faith can be assured of salvation. Good points Mercy. I fear too many here are relying on the strngth of THEIR faith and struggle with the assurance of their salvation. When God brings you to saving faith, it is faith on the one who went to the cross and paid the sin debt that we all owe. You are so correct, it is in the object of faith, not is if we really, really, really meant it when we prayed some "sinner's prayer." 10/26/08 4:03 PM Mercy    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments webwatch wrote: Those of who are so assured that you have saving faith, have you moved any mountains? (Matthew 21:21). I haven't but, if your faith isn't strong enough to move a heap of rock and dirt that you can see, then how can be sure that your faith is strong enough to translate you into an eternal place, WW, Perhaps you included the above statement to elicit contention. . .so, I'll contend. Has anyone EVER said to a mountain "be moved?" and it was moved? Have you? I mean other than directing earth movers to do the job. Faith is not in its strength, but in the object - namely the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the one with little faith, or the one with strong faith can be assured of salvation. 10/26/08 3:29 PM webwatch    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments "by the law is the knowledge of sin" (Romans 3:20). Every one use some form of law or standard by which he judges others. There is a "law of faith" - Rom 3:27 Those of who are so assured that you have saving faith, have you moved any mountains? (Matthew 21:21). I haven't but, if your faith isn't strong enough to move a heap of rock and dirt that you can see, then how can be sure that your faith is strong enough to translate you into an eternal place, in the presence of Almighty God and mighty angels and saints, that you cannot see. Jesus preached to a multitude: "Seek Ye first the Kingdom of God". Which of you will say that seeking God should not be preached and exhorted? If you are such a one, do you make void this Word of God? Examine yourself and see whether you have the fruits of saving faith. Don't rest in your sinner's prayer and knowledge of systematic theology as the ground of assurance of salvation. 10/26/08 4:45 AM Faithful Remnant    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Ah yes, but that animal was not very free until it was set free. And as Jesus relates he was sent to set captives free(not much free will in a captive) and has commissioned the congregation to do the same.."As my Father sent me, so I send you..." 10/26/08 1:17 AM kjvonlybaptist  | illinois    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse • Groups | Comments Mercy "God brought redemption to this man, much like he did with Saul of Tarsus. That's what God does in conversion - He brings DELIVERANCE! HE sets us FREE! That's the msg of Salvation!" your not as Calvinistic as you think brother. if you SET an animal free and open the cage then the animal has the choice to go back into the cage. God did not say that. He said He MADE us free. No choice, the cage is gone. One small little word makes such a big difference.

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