If one becomes a Christian one believes God created the universe and everything therein. God has said to everyone meaning no specific group of individuals, come join me and I will give you eternal life.
What should one believe to receive this eternal life. To this He says my requirements are simple;
Believe I am the Creator,
Believe I am all powerful,
Believe I am all knowing,
Believe I am all always present
Believe I send my only Son into the world to live as a man, so He could take the sins of the world onto Himself,
Commit to live your life to the principles Jesus taught while he was here, and
Believe that through the grace given by Jesus by dying on the cross the sins we commit are forgiven.
Jesus said there is a caveat to this belief. While he was residing here on earth he said that everyone that says Lord Lord will not receive eternal life with God. To me this means just giving lip service to God by just saying you believe the above without committing your life to Him and His teachings. This means you were never a follower in the first place.
However, God knew we would never be able to live without sin, so He gave us grace. All we have to do to receive this grace is try to do our best to live a good life while as He taught.
God didn’t give us stages of forgiveness. One is either forgiven or one is not forgiven. That does not depend on God. He has already forgiven us for everything unless you have never believed and in your own heart agreed to follow Him.
Now we live in a country that was given to us by God. We the people endowed by certain unalienable rights won a war that we no possibility of winning. We agreed on a constitution where we again acknowledge God as the head. We open each session of congress with a prayer to God in the name of Jesus the Christ.
Now we have to ask ourselves, do we love God or do we love money and earthly power. We are watching the news coverage and the majority of our congress members fight earthly power and money.
Who will win? I pray to God for the sack of our children and grandchildren that we choose God.
Amen
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