Friday, January 30, 2009

The Falsehoods of Works Based Salvation

How many times have you heard this "Baptism Washes Away Sins." ? What about this one? " I have to do many good deeds to make it to heaven." Well these are to falsehoods taught by people.
They are referred to by me as the heresy doctrine of"Works Based Salvation." I will exposed this as a heresy. So ,First let tackle the" baptism saves " doctrine. 1. Jesus says in Mat 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 2. The bible says in Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood;and without shedding of blood is no remission. You ask what does remission have to do with salvation? Salvation is the result of repentance (washing away of Sin) which is remission.
Now are to the second subject:Good Deeds Salvation. I know this is false because of what it says in Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death,But the Gift of God is enternal life thru Jesus Christ our Lord. Websters Dictionary defines a Gift as Something freely given (my paraphrase on the definition) If it is Freely Given you can never do enough deeds to pay for it. Finally to tie these two together as heresy turn to. Epehsians 2: 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:it is the gift of God. And verse 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. This is How John Wesley co-founder of the Methodist Chruch explains these verses. 8 By grace ye are saved through faith - Grace, without any respect to human worthiness, confers the glorious gift. Faith, with an empty hand, and without any pretence to personal desert, receives the heavenly blessing. And this is not of yourselves - This refers to the whole preceding clause, That ye are saved through faith, is the gift of God.
9 Our faith, our conversion, and our eternal salvation, are not the mere product of any natural abilities, nor of any merit of our own: Not of works, lest any man should boast. So you see this is how i can disprove works based salvation. It is a gift of God

3 comments:

  1. Nice job, brother. When pointing out baptism being outside of the requirements for salvation I find it helpful to site I Cor 1:17 "For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel..." I also find it to be very effective in explaining what something IS as a means of both exposing what it is NOT. I enjoy the boldness so evident in how you write!

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  2. Please strike the word "both" ... oops!

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  3. Nice job. Concise and easy to understand. I believe you have proved your point and I agree with you.
    But let me play the devil's advocate.
    Please comment on Matthew 7:22-23.
    Aren't good works only possible by the power of the Holy Spirit?

    If so, then wouldn't Jesus necessarily have to commend these people for the good works they actually did?

    If not, then why not?

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