Do you believe in eternal salvation.If so why or why not?
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The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation. Baptism is the sacrament of faith. But faith needs the community of believers. It is only within the faith of the Church that each of the faithful can believe. The faith required for Baptism is not a perfect and mature faith, but a beginning that is called to develop.\n\nRom 6:23 tells us that salvation is a free gift from God and 1 Cor 6:9-10 tells us that it’s an inheritance. When your parents have established an inheritance for you, you do not say that you earned that inheritance; however, by being bad long enough, you could lose that inheritance.\n\nWe cannot earn our inheritance nor do we need to, but we could lose it. In 1 Cor 6:9-10, St. Paul gives us a list of sins and sinners and adds that they “will not inherit the kingdom. We are not saved as individuals, or by our own power, but we are saved inasmuch as we are members of Christ. That means we must be like Him; hence in Gal 5:13-26, St. Paul gives two lists: the fruits of the Spirit and the works of the flesh. If we follow the flesh, we will die. Rom 8:9 reads “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him”; that Spirit leads us to do as Christ did (avoid sin). We cannot say: “If we have taken Christ as our Savior we can sin as much as we want”, for faith includes obedience (Rom 1:5).\n\nSt. Paul surely thought salvation could be lost. “No, I drive my body and train it, for fear that, after having preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.” (1 Cor 9:27) If anyone took Jesus Christ as his Savior, it was St. Paul; but he knew he could be eternally lost.\n\nAre we saved by faith alone?\n\nThere is only one location in the entire Bible where the words "faith" and "alone" are used in the context of justification. "See how a person is justified by works and NOT by faith alone. And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by a different route? For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead" (Jas 2:24-26).\n\n"Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works." (Jas 2:20-22)
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Do you believe in reincarnation?
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Yes 100%. I have eternal life and I know that I will be with the Lord Jesus Christ in heaven when I die because I have made Christ Lord and Savior of my life and I have grown closer in my relationship with Him.
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some Christians might tell you anything.  hahahhahaha\n\nDon't confuse Eternal Life with salvation.\n\n\nwhat does God Himself say?\n\n\nYES.  you can lose your salvation. Read the last page of the Bible. What does it say? \n Anyone who does what?  ADD TOO.  OR takes away what? from this Book.  God will take YOUR name out of the Lambs Book of Life.  hello.??\n\nYour name had to be IN it, for God to take it out.\n\nbottom line.\n\nwanna Popsicle?
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Absolutly not! It pains me to think of people going to hell. Even some people who have gotten on my last nerve, I don't revel in the final destiny if they are not saved. It pains me to no end.\n\nWe recently had a friend of the family pass away, and I do not know if she was saved or not.
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Yes I definitely believe in Jesus Christ. Without him I would be nothing. With him I can do anything. I love him and he loves me. I believe in God the Eternal Father and in his son Jesus Christ and in the Holy Ghost. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I am not ashamed of it at all. With him you can be saved and don't wait till the last minute when it is to late.  This life is for you to prove that can return to your Father in Heaven
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It all depends on if you believe in eternal life, heaven and hell.  If so...I guess that is a way to look at it...It hardly seems fair that how you spend eternity is judged by a mere 70 or 80 years...That is why I don't believe in any of it.
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for those that do believe that, by your definition, because i was forced to be saved in kindergarden (my teacher told us all that if we didnt believe we would go to hell and suffer for eternity being tortured and burned - being 5/6 that kinda scares ya right into believing).   but now i am agnostic and dont believe the bible. does that mean im still saved? lol
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No since scripture clearly teaches that salvation is a free gift it cannot be lost.  John 5:24 Tells us that the moment that we place our trust in Christ's finished work on the cross and that work alone we pass "out of death into life".  \n\nJohn 3:16 and 6:47 promise eternal life to everyone without exception that believes in Christ as their Saviour.  It would not be accurate to call that life eternal if it could be lost. \n\nI John 5:13 tells us that if we have believed (been pursuaded that the gospel is true) we can know with absolute certainty that we will go to heaven when we die. This is because ones salvation is soley dependant upon Gods promise and has nothing to do with our performance
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My belief?  To be honest, I'm uncertain.  I would like to think that there is a God and there is a Heaven, but I can't say that I believe 100% that there is.\n\nMy feeling is that I will live the best life I can, serving others, and generally being a good person.  If there is a God and a Heaven, then I hope that the way I lived my life will be the deciding factor in where I spend my afterlife, rather than whether or not I believed 100%.
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Salvation and Redemption are two different things\nHeb. 7:27, 9:12,26;10:10; 1 Pet 3:18 - Jesus died once and redeemed us all, but we participate in the application of His redemption by the way in which we live.\n\nHeb. 9:12 - Christ's sacrifice secured our redemption, but redemption is not the same thing as salvation. We participate in and hope for salvation. Our hope in salvation is a guarantee if we are faithful to Christ to the end. But if we lose hope and fail to persevere, we can lose our salvation. Thus, by our own choosing (not by God's doing), salvation is not a certainty. While many Protestant churches believe in the theology of "once saved, always saved," such a novel theory is not found in Scripture and has never been taught by the Church. \n\nRom. 5:2 - we rejoice in the "hope" (not the presumptuous certainty) of sharing the glory of God. If salvation is absolutely assured after accepting Jesus as Savior, why would Paul hope? \n\nRom. 5:5 - this "hope" does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. Our hope is assured if we persevere to the end. \n\nAs God wills that all men be saved rest asssured that Satan wills all to have moral death, spiritual death for those that follow Christ and His saving teachings.
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I am saved, I believe in Jesus Christ as God's only Son who died for my sins and I have asked forgiveness for my sins.\n\nI have also followed God's leadings and they have not been easy, but I still obeyed.
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I think you can make your own form of heaven here on Earth.  There's no way to know if it exists in the afterlife until you get there, so the best route is to make the most of what you have here.  \n\nI don't believe in hell, simply because the concept of a place for eternal torture escapes me. I don't know that there are a lot of people I would wish eternal torture on- I mean, years of it for those who support genocide, etc., maybe, but eternity?  It bothers me.  Doesn't mean I'm right, doesn't mean I'm wrong either.
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Salvation is a gift, but we must hold onto it and persevere in our faith, not just pray a prayer one time and then live any way we want. I hope the first link below will be helpful for you. Feel free to e-mail me at chad@jesusfreak.com if I can help.
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The first question is ill-posed, for not every religion has a concept of salvation.  As far as I understand it, salvation is meaningless in Buddhism, which does not conceive of a God/Judge Who either saves or condemns its creatures.\n\nAs for your second question: Unitarian Universalism eschews speaking about God, and it embraces both people who believe in His/Her existence and people who do not.  Unitarian Universalists who may believe in an afterlife would certainly say that you don't have to follow their doctrine to be saved, if salvation has any meaning to begin with.
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For those that have trusted in His gift of eternal life, they are only stepping into eternity to live forever.  What's wrong with that?
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Yes I do.  I am a devout Christian who believes that God sent his one and only begotton son to die for our sins, was raised from the dead on the Trird Day, and is to come again to judge the living and the dead.  God Bless You