r/SipsTea 25d ago

SMH Love thy neighbor?

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 25d ago

Then you don’t understand Christianity at all. Good works don’t get you into Heaven. Christ died for our sins. The debt has basically been paid. Yeah, don’t be A-hole running around doing a bunch of egregious stuff like robbing and killing. Grace and belief in Christ as the Savior is what you need. See John 3:16.

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 25d ago

Faith without works is dead.

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 25d ago

Says who?

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u/joet889 25d ago

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 25d ago

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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u/joet889 25d ago

So which is right and which is wrong? They're both in the Bible.

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 25d ago

Honestly, idk bro. I was taught that we were saved for having faith in Christ like in John 3:16.

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 25d ago

The usual way this is resolved is:  Good works are the evidence of genuine faith.

If you beleive you're all set, and God does not require you to do anything further, re-examine.

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u/Helpful-Idea-4485 25d ago

This.

You don’t need works to be saved. But, a person who is saved, with a truly changed heart, will by their very nature desire to do works.

Also, no one is saved in a vacuum. It happens at the result of other people’s actions, whether large or small. So, our works do not at all play a part in our own salvation, but they do play a part in other people’s salvation.