[Full Court]

Don't sin, and bingo, absolute assurance.

Why is your salvation based on what you do, not what Jesus did for you?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Why is your salvation based on what you do, not what Jesus did for you?

From before the foundation of the world, that excellent question has separated the sheep from the goats.

[jo kus]

Why is your salvation based on what you do, not what Jesus did for you?

Salvation is only possible as a result of Christ's work. However, this work is not over! Christ continues to work within each and every one of us through His Abiding Presence in transforming us. But we can reject His graces. So, yes, we have some part to play in salvation, but it is a more passive role as we don't earn anything, we are merely giving back the gifts of love that God has enabled us to do.

Regards

[wmfights]

Thanks for the ping.

I'll never catch up with all these posts so I'll just jump in later.

God Bless

[annalex]

Why is your salvation based on what you do, not what Jesus did for you?

I was going to post an answer based on Matthew 25 last night, but my Internet connection died. I am now glad it did, because now we have this insightful rejoinder from Dr. Eckleburg in 6216:

From before the foundation of the world, that excellent question has separated the sheep from the goats.

Wonderful. Indeed, sheep and goats are separated based on what we do:

31 And when the Son of man shall come in his majesty, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit upon the seat of his majesty. 32 And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: 36 Naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me.

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41 Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.

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46 And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

(Matthew 25)