is salvation a GIFT from God?  ...  or      a GIFT  OF God?
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Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:\nEph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.\n\nNo, He doesn't revoke the gift.\n\nRom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,\nRom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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1.  I must realize that in my present condition I am a sinner bfore God. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3.23.)\n2. I cannot save myself from eternal punishment in hell  "For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord: (Romans 6:23)\n3.  Christ has paid for my sins and my punishment with His death on the cross.  "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him (Jesus should not perish, but have everlasting life: "(John 3:16)  \n4.  I must accept His crucififixion as payment for my sins, personally.  "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13)\nIf you would like to have assurance of eternal life, then pray this prayer:  "Lord, I know I am a sinner.  I believe Your Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross for my sins.  Please forgive me of my sins and make me a new person.  I commit my life to you today. Amen,"\nIf you prayed this prayer you can send for Dr. Stanley's booklet, "The Only Door to Heaven."  www.intouch.org.\nWhen you are saved, you are sealed with God's Holy Spirit for eternity.  You cannot loose your salvation because you are now adopted into the family of God.  \nIt is important to find a bible teaching church and become part of the body of Christ to help you grow in your walk with the Lord.  Read the Bible daily.  You will find it easier to understand if you read it with a daily devotional magagine such as The Daily Bread or In Touch by Dr. Charles Stanley, which is on line at the above web site.  Set at time aside daily to talk to God in prayer.  Your prayers should include 1. Affirmation of God's character, confession, thanksgiving and supplication. (ACTS).  If your church is a bible teaching church, they should practice believers baptism.  You should be baptized out of obedience to Christ, but it is not required before salvation, but should be done after you become a believer.  Welcome to the family of God.  God Bless you in your walk with Him.
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No one can attain salvation. Salvation is a gift given freely to man by God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Placing your trust in an idol or in a prayer or in good deeds places your faith in the wrong area. God is so omnipotent, we cannot even fathom what he would look like, so by creating an idol of him, we are limiting who God is. If you read the entire Bible, nowhere will you find a physical description of what God looks like. There isn't even a physical description of Jesus.\n\nThere is only one way to salvation - 1) Admit God is perfect, 2) Admit you are not, 3) Accept that Christ is perfect and sacrificed his life for yours, and 4) Receive your gift of salvation through faith that Christ has paid for your mistakes.
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God's Salvation is a free gift (but you have to choose it & accept it)... why worry about hell??
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Ephesians 2:8-9\n\n"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast."\n\nFor me this is the quintessential reason why so many people reject God's free gift of salvation.  To get something for nothing is contrary to our perception of the human condition.  Cults like the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses and Scientologists all say that YOU have to accomplish some feat to EARN your place in eternity, and that's simply not true.  This verse reminds me of that.  To me, it's more "the Gospel in a nutshell" than is John 3:16.
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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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Salvation is by Gods grace and will alone, and is equally available to everyone who ever lived regardless of anything that they did, or did not do.\n\nThis I believe;  http://homelessheart.com/testimony.htm
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Just remember this...We all fall short from the glory of God.  It does not mean you don't have salvation....we all make mistakes, thats makes us human.
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Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. -2 Peter 2:10\n\nIf youre going to believe in eternal security than youre going to have to believe that the Bible was written by men like Peter that were of limited inspiration that just didnt understand salvation. However I believe the Bible was sufficiently inspired to understand the idea that salvation IS a gift from God but like any gift, it can be taken back under certain conditions! Was not Satan once in Heaven? What happened to him? Was Satan once saved always saved or can we still blaspheme God?
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Salvation is a gift from God by His grace and will alone.  It is open to all, Jew or gentile, and is only available at the throne of grace on judgment day.
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Being saved isn't a "feeling" it's trusting in the truth contained in God's Word. Have you walked the Roman Road?\n\nThe ROMANS ROAD....is a pathway you can walk.\n\nIt is a group of Bible verses from the book of Romans in the New Testament. If you walk down this road you will end up understanding how to be saved. \n\nRomans 3:23 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."\n\nWe all have sin in our hearts. We all were born with sin. \n\nWe were born under the power of sin's control.\n\n- Admit that you are a sinner.\n\n\n\nRomans 6:23a "...The wages of sin is death..." \n\nSin has an ending. It results in death. We all face physical death, which is a result of sin. But a worse death is spiritual death that alienates us from God, and will last for all eternity. The Bible teaches that there is a place called the Lake of Fire where lost people will be in torment forever. It is the place where people who are spiritually dead will remain.\n\n- Understand that you deserve death for your sin.\n\nRomans 6:23b "...But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." \n\nSalvation is a free gift from God to you! You can't earn this gift, but you must reach out and receive it.\n\n- Ask God to forgive you and save you.\n\nRomans 5:8, "God demonstrates His own love for us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us!"\n\nWhen Jesus died on the cross He paid sin's penalty. He paid the price for all sin, and when He took all the sins of the world on Himself on the cross, He bought us out of slavery to sin and death! The only condition is that we believe in Him and what He has done for us, understanding that we are now joined with Him, and that He is our life. He did all this because He loved us and gave Himself for us!\n\n- Give your life to God... His love poured out in Jesus on the cross is your only hope to have forgiveness and change. His love bought you out of being a slave to sin. His love is what saves you -- not religion, or church membership. God loves you!\n\nRomans 10:13 "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved!" \n\n- Call out to God in the name of Jesus!\n\nRomans 10:9,10 "...If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you shall be saved; for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."\n\n- If you know that God is knocking on your heart's door, ask Him to come into your heart. \n\nJesus said,\n\nRevelation 3:20a "Behold I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him..." \n\n- Is Jesus knocking on your heart's door?\n\nBelieve in Him. Ask Him to come in to your heart by faith,\nand ask Him to reveal Himself to you. Open the Bible to the Gospel of John and read what God says about Jesus, about you, and about being born again. \n\nGod will help you. He loves you. \n\nYou need to look for a local church where God's word is preached. The Bible says that we are to desire God's word like a newborn baby desires mother's milk.\n\nAren't you hungry to know the truth?\n\nWater baptism is one of the ways you first show that you have been joined to Jesus. This is an action, and actions will not save you. However, it is an act of obedience and a symbol of commitment.\n\nThe symbolism is this: When you go down in the water you show that You have been crucified and buried with Him,\n\nAnd when you come up out of the water you show that you have been raised to walk with Him in newness of life. \n\n(See Romans chapter 6)\n\nYou have been born again. \n\n(See John chapter 3)\n\nYour body has become God's temple. Your heart is where He lives. Forgiveness is yours in Jesus. And you belong to Him.\n\nYou were sin's slave.\n\nBut now...\n\nYou are a child of GOD!\n\nJohn 1:12 &quot
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Yes I do.   It is in the Word of God.  Also Jesus, the disciples, as well as, the other apostles did it as well.  It was done as a commissioning of service.   I Timothy 4:14 says do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic messsage when the body of olders laid their hands on you.  Over and over in the New Testaments we are given accounts of the 'laying on of hands'.  Some were healed, delivered and set free.  So if the Bible says it, that settles  it for me.    May God Bless
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April, salvation is a gift that you have to receive but I believe you can also later reject it. Look at the parable of the sower were seed was sown on different ground. Jesus said IF you remain in me I will remain in you. I would loved to believe in once saved always saved but there are just to many warnings in the bible. We still have free will once we are saved, God is not going to drag anybody into heaven. I know the devil sure doesn't give up once your saved. I also don't believe it's something that you can loose just like that for committing a sin and dieing at that moment. I believe you are in danger when you make a conscience decision to go back to the world. I believe that this is easier for a new christian than a more mature one. I don't believe a christian has to live in fear of loosing their salvation.
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I would go to heaven, because I have accepted Christ as my lord and savior. You see, heaven is a free gift. It is not earned and can not be deserved.  "For it is by grace that you are saved through faith. it is the gift of God, not of man, that none may boast."Eph 2 8-9 It has to be a free gift because man is a sinner. "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Rom 3:23 Anything that is against God's will is considered sin. There are sins of thought, omission, and commission.  God gave a standard we must achieve if we wish to earn our way into heaven According to Matt 5:48, that standard  is " Be therefore perfect as your father in heaven is perfect."  That definitely leaves me out. Our God is merciful, and does not want to punish us, but He is just and must punish sin. This apparent problem was solved by Jesus - who is 100% God and 100% man. What did He do? He died on the cross, rose from the dead, and purchased a place in heaven for us. Does everyone receive this gift? No - the key to heaven is faith. Not temporal faith - like praying when you have a sick loved one , not head knowledge - many people believe that Jesus lived, much as they believe that George Washington lived. However, they are not counting on him to do anything for them today. Scripture tells us "You believe there is one God? You do well. The demons believe as much - and tremble!" James 2:9 No - the key to heaven is saving faith - asking Jesus to save you from the penalty of your sins. If this is what you want to do, ask Him to be your lord. Ask him to be your savior. Repent of your sins, and be a new creation!
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God gave me 3 Wonderful gifts this year.\n\n1- He made ME His Child. He Gave Me a new Life\n\n2- He gave me a Beatuiful Babt Daughter that I Love very much.\nshe Is my life. and she gave me a 2nd chance at life.\n\n3- He gave me 2 Great Friends here on Yahoo answers. Ken D and Linda they saved my life. they saved me from amking the biggest mistake in my life. they are trure Freinds \n\nThank you God For ALL you do for My Daughter and me.
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We are "saved" from eternal damnation pure and simple.  The problem lies in trying to confuse the salvation issue.  As humans we're inclined to want to "add" to things so as to make it "ours" as it were.  The problem with this is that since the beginning of time salvation from an eternal damnation has always been appropriated by faith.\n\nIf you'll look at Genesis 15:6 you'll find a shining example of salvation when the Lord refers to Abraham.  The verse is speaking of the confirmation of the Abrahamic covenant and the promised spiritual seed when he says, "And he (Abraham) believed in the Lord, and He (God) accounted it to him for righteousness (emphasis mine).\n\nThe most well known verse also confirms salvation by grace: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whomever believes on Him shall be saved" (John 3:16).\n\nWe are saved from our consequences of sin and thus we inherit eternal salvation.\n\nYou'll note that the difference in Jude 5 is that the Lord qualifies who wasn't saved, namely, "those who did not believe."\n\nIn Romans 7:6 "delivered from the law" is correct in that we are not bound by trying to keep the law.  That is, we do not earn salvation by trying to keep the commandments, rather we are saved by faith through grace alone (Ephesians 2:8-9).\n\nHope this helps!
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you shouldnt preach the gift of Gods salvation to people who completely reject, wont listen,  and dont understand it. \n\n\nwhen i witness to someone and they start to blaspheme God to my face .. i know im dealing with a swine.. theres really no reaching them at that point but i still pray for them and maybe someday they open their hearts\n\nswines dont understand the value of pearls:\nworldy people dont understand the value of Gods salvation