[ktupper]

Are mental assent and biblical belief the same in your mind?

If your belief doesn't inform your actions is it really belief?

People say they believe a lot of things. James says your belief is demonstrated by your works.

Do you think Jesus came to give us a life in the hereafter but just leaves us to wallow in our sin now?

- Kevin

[Tares]

Do you think Jesus came to give us a life in the hereafter but just leaves us to wallow in our sin now?

Good works are a fruit of salvation, not a condition necessary for it. Salvation is a free gift of God ("get out of jail free card"), given according to the pleasure of His good will.

[Theophilus]

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Salvation: the free gift that costs everybody everything but is worth even more.