Originally posted by josephw
Yes, of course the Bible explains what they are. The problem is understanding.
You think God "requires" something of you, don't you?
That's your problem. What is it exactly that you think you can do to please God? Be honest with yourself. Have you arrive at perfection old boy?
Because that's what you are going to need to be to please God and be admitted into His Kingdom.
Is it really your informed opinion that only perfection pleases God? Can you provide a quote from the Bible for that?
Thats the delusional message preached in the churches. It goes this way .. you cannot be perfect, we are saved by grace and all we have to do is to accept Christ with out mouth and we will get eternal life. No need to try to please God and do the good works and righteousness.
This is the gospel that the lazy, greedy, worldly, selfish, bastard Christians like and RHP is full of them. Followers of Christ follow Christ and walk as he walked. Neither Christ nor God expects fallen man to be perfect. They do expect him to give it his best shot.
Here is one of many many many passages on how to please God:
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. (1Th 4:1-12)
Here it says you can please God by;
- obeying Christ commandments
- abstain from fornication and lust
- not committing fraud
- be holy and clean
- love one another
- mind your own business
- pursue honesty
- be charitable