Just because people are call Christian does not make them Christian.
We need to define Christian and, what it means to be Christian.
One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus.
A true Christian is a born again believer and follower of Jesus and
has received the gift of salvation.
This is what I believe.
Death is separation, when a person dies their spirit goes back to God.
This is the first death.
The second death is when a person's spirit is separated from God.
The Bible tells us not everyone's spirit is going to stay with God.
If a person's spirit stays with god I call this being saved, heaven,salvation or life after death.
If a person's spirit is separated form God. I believe their spitit will be
destroyed in hell.
Salvation is a gift from God.
You can't work for it, earn it or be good enough for it.
You must receive it.
How do you receive it?
This is the "stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone."....
Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved....
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9
It's to simple for most people to accept.
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
He who says, " I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whosoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 1 John 2:3-6
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
Let Truth Abide in You
Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised us eternal life.
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