Path: paganini.bofh.team!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "NightBulb.net" Newsgroups: alt.christnet.christianlife,alt.atheism,alt.bible,alt.bible.prophecy,alt.messianic,alt.religion.christian.catholic Subject: Re: I am forgiven but you are not??? Followup-To: alt.bible Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 12:04:22 -0600 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 18:03:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="3e8527e86493a4e4bf9155d1b474a678ba7d7e40"; logging-data="587605"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@mixmin.net" Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: paganini.bofh.team alt.christnet.christianlife:1039096 alt.atheism:4777022 alt.bible:653531 alt.bible.prophecy:745631 alt.messianic:514265 alt.religion.christian.catholic:5142 On 11/29/22 17:30, Michael McLean wrote: > Oops, I think that should be one sentenceness. > > "We are given the ability to believe, and we can, but if you believe > that YOUR belief will save you, all you are doing is displaying pride, a > mere acceptance of yourself, belief in yourself, which is not belief in > God at all." I agree with you on this 100%. Also, the bible tells us so: "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith OF Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference ..." Because of His Faith, we are able to believe by and through Him. It is written that the faith of Jesus saved us. Not that our faith saved us. Jesus even told the Apostles that if they even had a mustard seed of faith they could slam dunk mountains. It was a way of saying that their own faith didn't amount to much. The faith OF Jesus is the real power. His faith, not ours. I still haven't worked up a whole mustard seed of it yet. You'll know when I do because I'll be doing some landscaping with Mount Everest. ;) -- Nightbulb https://blog.nightbulb.net Flip the night switch.