Do you accept John 3:16- 18 as the Gospel? Or do you not ? Do you think it an error or contridiction? It doesn’t say that if you “believe in Him “ plus this and plus this and plus this you have eternal life. Right? I find it of Satan when I see people stacking requirements on salvation which just aren’t there.. Salvation is as simple as the thief on the cross. Just accept as true Jesus as the Son of God or what you teach is false.
To be repentant and believe in Christ are the requirements for salvation.
Why do you take two verses out and declare them to be "the Gospel"? I can show you plenty of other verses that reject your antinomian OSAS view. Why aren't they also "the Gospel"?
Matthew 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Saving faith results in a life that shows it, a life lived in increasing holiness and Christlikeness.
If that's not there, thre's plenty of reason to suspect that the profession is lip service only.
I’m sorry, but I find what you’re saying to be absurd.
You’re basically saying sin doesn’t matter at all. You can do anything...rape, kill, steal, torture, never repent of any of it, like the BTK killer who tortured all this girls to death and was never remorseful, and if you believe Jesus died for your sins (which demons believe, also...and tremble) then you’re going straight to Heaven.
Why did Paul say Heaven is not for murderers, homosexuals, drunkards, etc., if nothing you do matters?
And why did God take Annanias and Saphira’s life when they they lied about money they were holding back.
There’s something amiss with your theology.
Are we not taught to accept the whole counsel of God? But you’re going to accept one Scripture as the total truth of God? What of the rest of Scripture, such as those that have been quoted to you here, by other FReepers?
You must be born again. John 3:16 tells you how to do that. But the majority of the REST of the New Testament, tells us how to live, AFTER we have received Jesus. Paul speaks of baby Christians, and differentiates between them and mature Christians, in how they receive the meat of the Word, not just the milk of the Word that a new Christian knows.