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The point being you don't truly believe God would be just to condemn you, otherwise it is over and you wouldn't try.


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I don't try in the sense of earning God's favor through good works. "Salvation is by grace through faith." It is a "gift of God, not according to works, that no one should boast."

And I do truly believe God would be just in condemning me. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". "There is NONE righeous, no NOT ONE".

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You have faith and do good acts so that possibly one day God would be just to reward you with heaven.


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Yes - faith for salvation, "good works which God prepared beforehand that I should walk in them" for reward. But "what do I have that I have not received?". God is "just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Christ" because Christ died for our sins - but for His work on the cross all mankind would be condemned.

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Wow, I can't believe I ever bought into this crap. When I used to say that batshit I hope I didn't sound as eery. Thank god (badoom ching) that I realized at a relatively early age that the jesus that saves does not exist. Or at least if he does he's a jerk that doesn't save everyone that sincerely asks.