The Greatest of these is Love
25 Feb '10 16:56Whats the point of faith if you dont have love and charity? Your so-called faith is null and void. Consider the following verses:
And there are many more verses like those, so the message is clear.
The question .. How do these verses fit into the doctrine of the once-saved/always-saved gang? Please dont tell me that all those who profess their faith in Christ with their mouth also have love and charity!!
Your salvation revolves around your ability to show LOVE & CHARITY to your neighbour. Hence the reason for this passage in Romans:
Clearly here it is explaining the position of those Gentiles who know no law but whose conscience guides them to do good works. These gentiles will be justified in the day of judgment.
Faith + Love = Perfection
Faith (the kind professed with your mouth) = Nothing
Love and Charity trumps faith everytime.
1Cor 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love/charity, I am nothing.
1Cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is love/charity.
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Mat 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
And there are many more verses like those, so the message is clear.
The question .. How do these verses fit into the doctrine of the once-saved/always-saved gang? Please dont tell me that all those who profess their faith in Christ with their mouth also have love and charity!!
Your salvation revolves around your ability to show LOVE & CHARITY to your neighbour. Hence the reason for this passage in Romans:
Rom 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
Rom 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another😉
Rom 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Clearly here it is explaining the position of those Gentiles who know no law but whose conscience guides them to do good works. These gentiles will be justified in the day of judgment.
Faith + Love = Perfection
Faith (the kind professed with your mouth) = Nothing
Love and Charity trumps faith everytime.
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