Are you insinuating, for one fleet second, that is one believes that Jesus is the savior.....that the person can lead whatever lifestyle he chooses, marry whichever sex person he chooses, divorces that person, marries another, demands that she have an abortion,.....and on and on and on....is saved???????????????????????????????
No. YOU are.
Your contention has been refuted time and again and it has continued to fall on deaf ears.
If you are ever born from above, you will immediately comprehend why your post was as dumb as a post. We can start with the foolish conflation of saying Jesus is the Savior and asking Jesus to be one’s Savior. The former is a foolishness we’ve witnessed often, too foten. The later is what allows God’s Promise to take hold in the believer. On my profile page is an explanation fo the wotrd translated with several English words. Nut the root essence is ‘to faithe’, a verb meaning an active reliance upon the object of the faith.
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
Rome answered, “The work of God is this:
to lead the CORRECT Catholic lifestyle...
to marry an opposite gendered person he/she chooses (unless HE's gonna be a Catholic priest)...
plays bingo whenever the Church is running the house...
gets a VALID baptism...
has as many children as humping rabbits can have... (WAIT! says Francis)...
lavishly adores, venerates, prays to Mary so that their prayers can be moved to the front of the line for answering...
adds to their carbon footprint/global warming by lighting innumerable candles...
...then, after all, and much, MUSH more - we can't promise ya nothin'.
It's odd to me that a professing Christian would even ask such a question...
Joh 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
You do not seem to understand what happens to a person when he/she becomes a born again Christian...It is not something we do or don't do...It is what God does to us...
Um. No.
Nobody ever said that simply believing that Jesus is the Savior is enough. Nor has anyone ever said that simply claiming one has faith is enough, although Catholics never seem to tire of those accusations.
Receiving Jesus by faith is what gives a person the right and authority to become a child of God.
John 1:10-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Here is some Scripture that tells how it is done and what Christians have done to be born again.
Romans 10:9-13 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Not believes about Him. Believes IN Him.
Think the tax collector and the Pharisee standing outside the Temple praying.
Who was justified? The publican who in humility asked for a pardon and got it, or the religious practitioner who bragged on his works?
Do you commit sin(s) on an hourly basis? Daily? Weekly?
Do you think you can just go on and on and on like that?
The bottom line is we are all sinners on a daily basis. We can never be good enough to earn Heaven.
The shed blood of Christ does indeed cover ALL of our sins. Big ones....little ones. It doesn't matter it you say it or think it....it's still a sin. Ephesians 2:1 makes this point clear.
Colossians 2:13-14 tells us our sins have been nailed to the cross and that they have been removed. The Greek behind the word removed means rubbed out...gone. All of our sins.
The shed blood of Christ is more than sufficient to cover any sin we commit. If it's not, then we have a problem.