Why must you be saved? As Christians, we believe that the following conditions apply to all mankind. You must be led by the Holy Spirit to understand that they apply to you. Until you reach that point, you will feel no need to be saved. If you dont feel you are at that point right now, I respectfully ask that you take a few minutes to examine your life. Think about what you have done. Think about the motives behind your actions. Think about the way you have treated people and your motives for that treatment. Think about the way you have reacted in situations and why you reacted in that way. Examine how you feel about your life deep down inside. Be honest in your evaluation. Ask God to illuminate your innermost self for examination. Peel back all the layers you present to those close to you and the world around you. Read the rest of this brief page. Read the scripture references. God will illuminate His words in your heart. Bookmark this page and reread it several times if necessary. Then take the steps to get right with God. Admit that you are a sinner. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; [Romans 3:23] Adam and Eve were created sinless. They sinned and fell from Gods grace. Through the seed of man that basic sin nature has been passed on to every man and woman in every following generation. [Rom. 5:12-14; Gen. 2:7, 21-22, 16-17, 3:1-19]. Jesus Christ, incarnated of Mary and the Holy Spirit, was not contaminated by this basic sin nature. He was tempted in all things, just like us, but He didnt sin. He was able to give Himself as a perfect sacrifice on the cross for the sin of the world. [Heb. 4:15; Lk. 1:26-38]. Your basic sin nature is at odds with God and will keep you out of heaven no matter how good you think you have been. [Lk. 16:15; Isa. 64:6; Jas. 2:10, 4:4; 1 Cor. 6:9-11]. If you have been a Christian and slid back into sin, God wants you back. Hell give you another chance. [2 Chr. 7:14; 1 Jn. 1:9; Jas. 5:19-20; Rev. 2:5]. Acknowledge that sin brings eternal punishment at death. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. [Romans 6:23] There are two possible outcomes at death. There are no other alternatives. The only thing they have in common is that they are never ending and never changing. If you have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have eternal life in heaven with God. [Lk. 23:43; Jn. 14:2-3; Rev. 21:9-22:7]. If not, you have eternal life in hell without God. [Ps. 9:17; Mt. 10:28, 25:41, 46; Rev. 21:8]. Punishment of the wicked in hell before the final white throne judgment and punishment in the lake of fire afterwards wasnt Gods original plan for man. It is the eternal destination for those who reject Christ as their Savior. Dont be deceived by Satan. If you ignore what you read here, you are rejecting Christ. Know that accepting Christ as your Lord and Savior is the only means of receiving eternal life with God. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. [1 John 5:11-12] There are no shortcuts or back doors into heaven. All Christians should do good works and live uprightly. But just doing good works and living a good life wont get you into heaven. You wont make it into heaven because your parents were Christian. You wont make it into heaven because your children are Christians. You wont make it into heaven by belonging to a particular church or denomination. You wont make it into heaven because someone has prayed for you. You must take action yourself once you have reached the age where you know right from wrong. [Eph. 2:8-9; Mt. 7:13-14]. Once you die, there are no second chances. Nobody can pray you into heaven if you die a sinner. There will be no bargaining with God. He will rightly point out all the opportunities you have had to commit to Him (including this one). [Heb. 9:27; Jn. 8:24]. Christ came to fulfill the required sacrifice for sin. He died once for all. No matter what you have done, he will forgive you if you ask Him. He will write your name down in His Lambs Book of Life. [Rom. 8:3; Rev. 20:11-15]. Believing and accepting Christ as your Savior are two separate things. Satan and the fallen angels believe in God and Christ. They have seen Them first hand. Yet Christs sacrifice on the cross cannot save them. [Jas. 2:19]. You may have particular reasons for believing that the above scriptures dont apply to you. It is impossible to address all the objections in one document. I will try to address a few of the main objections here. Perhaps some of these will address the issues you have. Perhaps only one or two will apply. In any case, please read whatever fits your circumstances, along with the scriptures. I do not believe that the Bible is really the Word of God. This is the key objection that must be addressed. If you believe in the Bible, then these other objections can be resolved by quoting scripture. If you dont believe in the Bible, then the rebuttals will not be relevant to you. Please read Inspiration of the Bible by Finis Jennings Dake for more information. Too often, people simply reject Scripture because of what they have been told it says. They dont read it for themselves. Dont reject the Holy Bible as the Word of God without reading and studying it yourself. See what the Bible tells you - dont rely on what others tell you. Go in with an open mind. Ask God to help you understand it. He will. Listen to what He says you should be studying in it and study that first. If you do have a question about the Bible, and you dont seem to be getting a clear answer from God about it, then ask a Christian for help. You wouldnt ask a punk rock band to critique the nuances of a Beethoven symphony. They may have an opinion about Beethoven, but it unlikely that they have studied it. Likewise, dont ask or rely on a non-Christian to answer your questions about the Bible. Ask a Christian who has spent much time in the Word. I do not believe in God. [Mt. 17:1-8; Jn. 3:11-21; Rom. 1:15-25]. I do not believe in life after death. [Lk. 16:19-31; Mt. 27:50-54; Mk. 16:1-14; Eph. 4:7-10; Rev. 6:9-11]. I do not believe in hell. [Mt. 10:28, 13:38-50, 25:41, 46; Rev. 14:9-11, 19:20, 20:11-15, 21:8, 22:15]. I believe that God is too good to damn anyone. [Mt. 7:21; Mk. 16:16; Pr. 1:24-33]. I believe all will be saved. [Ps. 9:17; Mt. 7:13-14; Mk. 16:16; Jn. 3:18; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Gal. 5:19-21; Rev. 21:8]. I will have another chance after death. [Pr. 29:1; Rev. 20:11-15]. It doesnt matter what I believe if I am living right. [Mk. 1:14-15, 16:16; Jn. 8:24, 14:6; Acts 3:19, 4:12]. I believe that being law-abiding is enough to be saved. [Gal. 2:16; Eph. 2:8-9; Jas. 2:10]. There is no harm in living like the world. [Rom. 12:1-2; 2 Cor. 6:14-18; 1 Jn. 2:15-17; Jas. 4:4]. I cannot be lost regardless of what I do. [Rom. 6:16-23, 8:12-13; 1 Cor. 3:17, 6:9-11, 9:27; Gal. 5:19-21; 2 Tim. 2:12; Heb. 6:4-6, 10:26-29; Jas. 5:19-20]. I have committed the unpardonable sin. If you are visiting this site, reading these scriptures, purposing to get right with God you have not committed the unpardonable sin of blaspheming the Holy Ghost. It is He who draws you toward salvation. [Heb. 6:4-6, 10:26-29; Mt. 12:31-32]. I am satisfied with my religion. [Mt. 18:3; Jn. 14:6; Acts 4:12; Col. 2:4-10; Rev. 21:27, 22:14-15]. Salvation is not for everybody. [Rom. 1:16, 10:9-13; Rev. 22:17]. No one can really know that he is saved. [Jn. 3:36, 5:24; Rom. 8:14-16]. The Christian life is too hard to live. [Pr. 13:15; Mt. 11:28-30; 1 Cor. 10:13; Jas. 4:7]. I will have to give up too much. [Mt. 6:25-34; Mk. 10:29-31; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:9; Ps. 34:9-10, 84:11]. There are some things I cannot give up. [Rom. 6:11-23, 8:1-5, 12-13; 2 Cor. 5:17-21; Col. 3:2; Tit. 2:11-12]. My friends and relatives would make fun of me. [Mt. 5:10-12, 10:36-37; Jn. 15:18-20; 2 Cor. 6:14-18]. Additional common excuses and scripture reference rebuttals can be found in Dakes Quick Answers to Excuses, the source for most of the above information. [Excuses] The world judges a Christian by the things that the person does or does not do. They use their own standards for right and wrong when making the evaluation. Christianity is about accepting Christ as your Savior and Lord. It is about building His Church. It is about eliminating the things that God has said are sinful from your life, regardless of what the world thinks of those things. It is about living your life in an acceptable fashion before God. [1 Cor. 1:18-25; Rom. 12:1-2; Col. 1:20-22]. If you call yourself a Christian but really are just going through the motions and havent accepted Christ as Savior and Lord, you once accepted Him but later fell back into a life of sin, or you have never taken the steps to accept Him at all, then accept Him now as your Savior and Lord. There is no other method of salvation. Accept the whole truth of the Bibles plan of salvation; it is your only hope. [Acts 4:12; Jn. 3:18].
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