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Matthew 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
This is what being IN CHRIST is all about...nothing more and nothing less. If you're not doing this...you can be assured you're not IN CHRIST.
BTW...Jesus is the son of God...just as we are ALL sons and daughters of God.
Actually....no. Jesus said that is what the Law is all about. But we're not saved by the Law. You can try if you'd like...but you'll fail. As would I and every other human being. We can't do it.
Instead, with Jesus living perfectly under it and died for us, we can have his righteousness by faith. We're saved by faith. Being "In Christ" is not the same as being under the Law.
I'm a pastor. I've been to seminary. What is your theological training?
None of Jesus Christ's Apostles had been to a theological seminary or divinity college. A college degree is not how a person gains spiritual knowledge. As Jesus pointed out to Peter, when he (Peter) alone of all the Apostles recognized that Jesus was "the Christ, the Son of the living God," "Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." God reveals truth to us through the Holy Ghost; it doesn't come from religion professors.
Actually....no. Jesus said that is what the Law is all about. But we're not saved by the Law. You can try if you'd like...but you'll fail. As would I and every other human being. We can't do it.
Instead, with Jesus living perfectly under it and died for us, we can have his righteousness by faith. We're saved by faith. Being "In Christ" is not the same as being under the Law.
Christ IS love, Christ is living in us, and yes, that Law of Love living in us IS what saves us.
Oh really? When I was a young girl, I used to sing that wonderful song LOVE LIFTED ME:
"Love lifted me.. love lifted me... when nothing else could help .... Love lifted me." GOD IS LOVE. God saves us while we are yet sinners because HE IS LOVE. Period. Anything more is boasting in the flesh.
So if I reject Christ and Love Allah will I go to heaven?
I said: Christ IS love, Christ is living in us, and yes, that Law of Love living in us IS what saves us.
Perhaps I could be clearer. Christ, the fulfillment of the Law of Love, is living in us and that is what saves us.
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