I spent many years in Calvinism hearing there is nothing I could do to be saved. That is a horribly false teaching. There is nothing we can do to earn salvation as it took Jesus, the Son of God, taking the wrath of God that was meant for us. But Paul tells us that true believers should witness as though God is pleading through them to those who have not repented: "be reconciled to God!"
Today, if you will surrender your life and ask Jesus to forgive your sins you can be reconciled to God! You are then to follow him in obedience.
Read the New Testament and learn what Jesus and his disciples said for us to do and not to do. The Holy Spirit of God will guide you! If you sin, confess it and turn from it and continue on following Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5 ISV
- that one person died for all people; therefore, all people have died.
- 15He died for all people, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for the one who died and rose for them.
16So then, from now on we do not think of anyone from a human point of view.g Even if we did think of the Messiahh from a human point of view,i we don’t think of him that way anymore. 17Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah,j he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
18All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through the Messiahk and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19for through the Messiah,l God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us.
20Therefore, we are the Messiah’sm representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on the Messiah’sn behalf:
- “Be reconciled to God!” 21Godo made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.p
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