Comments on: To Christians, Is Accepting Christ the Only Path to Salvation?

By: The Jury Talks Back » What does it mean that the Jews are the Chosen People?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:51:23 +0000

[...] front page contains a lively religious discussion on the issue of Jesus as the only way to salvation. One remark in particular caught my eye, [...]

By: nk

nk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:38:51 +0000

The red font only means a reference to, or a quote from, the Old Testament.

By: Paul Totten

Paul Totten — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:22:30 +0000

#97 (Sorry, can’t tell if it is Xria or Xriq), I have this quotation from A. W. Tozer written in the front of my worn and tattered Bible. “The Bible will never be a living Book to us until we are convinced that God is articulate in His universe. [snip] It is not only a book which was spoken, but a book which is now speaking. [snip] A word of God once spoken continues to be spoken. [snip] If you would follow on to know the Lord, come at once to the open Bible expecting it to speak to you…it is a voice, a word, the very Word of the living God.”
I suggest you don’t place any more or less relevance on the red words that the black ones. It is all truth, and to live or die by. Your choice.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:08:41 +0000

Actually, no, not end of story. Not until someone explains to me why I should attach any special significance to the red font. On the one hand, if Matthew, Mark, Luke and/or John were infallible, that’s pretty impressive, but in that case, why aren’t their entire gospels written in red? On the other, if they weren’t infallible, and the stuff they wrote that isn’t in red could therefore be wrong, then why should we be any more trusting of the stuff they said Christ said?

By: RW

RW — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:37:08 +0000

Very interesting comments. Kudos to everyone.

But….there is a source for the answer to this rather easy question, and that source is the Holy Bible. If you believe the Holy Bible is the word of God, delivered via mortal man, then Christ is the path to salvation.

They even changed the important parts to red font, so it’d be easier to grasp.

End.
Of.
Story.

By: love2008

love2008 — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:09:23 +0000

Comment by punditius — 12/11/2008 @ 6:24 pm You are very wrong, punditius. God cares about what we believe. Your eternal destiny is decided by what you believe. John 3:16."For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have eternal life." verse 18 reads "He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." It is about what and who you believe. For we are saved by grace through faith. We are saved by what we believe. Not by works lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8,9. Read also Mark 16:15,16. It is what we believe that controls and determines who we are, what we are and "how we are".

By: punditius

punditius — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:24:57 +0000

God doesn’t care what you or I believe.

He just cares about how we are.

By: Amphipolis

Amphipolis — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:20:03 +0000

Thanks for the civil thread and the kind comments.

If we want salvation, this begs the question – what do we want salvation from? This question must be addressed first, before we discuss how it happens. I have tried to state Christianity’s answer above.

Our modern world shuns talk of the afterlife. It is relegated to ghost stories at halloween. Discussing it in polite company is like discussing little green men on mars. Then again, any truly big idea – love, justice, etc – that can’t be split into bits and bytes seems to generate little interest today. Until someone close to us dies and we realize why the ancients thought about more than the paths of the stars.

Jesus said I am the resurrection and the life. He promised eternal life to those who believe in him. Christians claim that he was resurrected.

If this is true, then everything changes. We need to reboot our entire world view.

A friend at work once asked me if I really believed in the whale of Jonah. I told him that I believe in a lot more than that – I believe that the God who created and sustains the universe was once a little baby in a manger.

Merry Christmas.

By: Pons Asinorum

Pons Asinorum — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:27:11 +0000

#88 EW1(SG)

Thank you EW, that was quite good. And thank you also for the pointer to “The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism” by Joseph Telushkin and Dennis Prager. I will check it out in the library (casual reader, unfamiliar with Jewish Tradition – yep, that’s me, good call).

Your explanation was quite illuminating. I find this thinking agreeable and look forwarded to exploring it further.

Thank you again–

By: love2008

love2008 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:32:58 +0000

See it this way, Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. He is God. Receiving Him is receiving life, rejecting Him is rejecting life. Without Him there is no salvation because He is salvation. We don’t preach that Jesus is a prophet that shows us the way to God. We preach that He is God. John 1:1 “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and the word was God.” Jesus, the Word is God.