I understand you to be paraphrasing what John stated (faith without works is dead), but I am unclear about your broad statement.
I acknowledge the God of Abraham is the only God.
Jesus is God's only begotten son, both man and God.
They are one with the Holy Spirit.
I know fall short and sin.
I know Jesus to have been sinless, and yet willingly paid the penalty for sin on the cross.
I have repented (and do so repeatedly, alas) ask, and have asked, Christ to forgive me, to come into my life, and be my master.
I have faith that He has done so, and his sacrifice will save me from my sins, not because I did anything, but because he loves me.
I am sorry, but your brush is awfully broad.
I am sorry, but your brush is awfully broad.
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It's broad because of what is coming. And the heartbreaking part of all of it is I can't warn enough and I can't get past the generations of that Mystery of Iniquity that has been drilled into everyone. Even me, I have had to undo so much that my mind will still try to take me back to...the false teachings...the doctrines of devils that we were WARNED about and told to watch for.
The urgency comes with what happened to me about 2 1/2 weeks ago.
I'm not a flake, I've been on Free Republic I think forever...lol.
One of the biggest things that people who meet me or know me is...that I am upbeat, I laugh all the time, I'm just a happy person, I raise and play with my horses, I have 4 grand kids and life is just GOOD. I make friends easily...don't know a stranger, no matter where I go. I like people...even the nasty ones....:)
Anyway...it was a Tuesday and I got up to go to work....usual day....I couldn't. I just couldn't, God literally laid me out in the livingroom floor on my face and I cried all day...I sobbed. I think I have been a fairly good person..and of course I know that is not what it is all about...it's not about my goodness. He let me see myself as He has seen me...then He let me feel what it would be like if He wasn't there...and I became nothing, completely torn with a feeling of emptyness I don't think could ever be described. He showed me what the unsaved will feel and just enough for me to bear it and it was horrible. He showed me, how completely worthless, empty and lost,I could be without HIM. I mean I repented like I have never repented in my LIFE....and I thought I had done a pretty thorough job of repenting. Nope...I have never repented where I felt like everything had been ripped from me, not like that. And then there was just a peace, a calmness, a lovingness and I wasn't afraid anymore.
It put such a sense of urgency in me for others, I know that wasn't just for me. He has shown me to much in the past that I have been made to share or foretell.....boy howdy do the attacks begin, but He has always finished what He has told me to give, whether I liked it or not.
I don't attack people!!! I attack false doctrine and that which will cost them their souls.
What makes me so special? I'm not....but HIS is the only voice I will listen to.....all else is vanity. He told me as a child, sleeping in the woods, hiding from a terrible homelife...that He would never leave me nor forsake me.
I didn't come to know Him in a building, I came to know Him talking to Him in the scary woods, cold, afraid, and He was there, He has never left.