Why does God need us to believe in the resurrection of Jesus in order to achieve salvation?
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To answer your question, only God knows.\nThere's nothing wrong with being skeptical and all.\nLastly, no one actually knows how God judges us. God did not specifically say that he will punish those who do not believe in resurrection. It is just a teaching of the church. The Church says that if you do believe in Jesus Christ, you believe in everything the Bible says. It's in an all-or-nothing basis. The Bible said that Jesus was resurrected from the dead, therefore, we should believe so.
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Maybe its something supernatural.. Don't know. But you need Jesus. Because he is the only way. We have sinned against almighty God, and deserve eternal punishment. When we turn away from sin, and give our lives to Christ, We will be saved. Also you will be freed from all these things you now face.
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Jesus destroys Satan inthe crucifixion in the sense that Jesus removed the one thing Satan had over us, namely, the guilt and shame of sin and its penalty of eternal death. \n\nIn His resurrection, Jesus rises to new life. All who identify with Jesus shall also rise to new life. Jesus says in John 11:25-26, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”\n\nSatan has no hold over us. "If God is for us, who is against us?" (Rom. 8:31) That's the good news of Jesus for EVERYONE, yes, EVERYONE. Of course, one has the choice to reject it if they so choose and not acknowledge Jesus.
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The verse itself fits perfectly with Salvation. He is the way, the truth, and the life. Without Jesus, you can't get to God. You must be saved by Jesus, to get to God. What Jesus said is the PERFECT verse to argue salvation with. Jesus will show you the way, the truth, and give you life everlasting by saving you, wich gets you to God.
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God loved the world so much that He sent his son to die for you.  Jesus died so the world could be saved.  Jesus then proved His divinity when He rose from the dead.
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Yes.  Once a person is saved, they never need to worry about their salvation again.  If they worried about their salvation, it would usually be because of some type of sin they thought they wouldn' t be forgiven of.\n\nJesus died on the cross and said, "It is FINISHED".  He died for his Chosen Ones, shed his blood for the Chosen Ones.  Any person that has the desire to come to him ....come.\n\nThe problem isn't with Jesus and his atoning sacrifice for us...it is that there are FALSE professions from humans.\n\nSome people SAY they are christians...but they really aren't because they don't have the Holy Spirit.\n\nOn that day....many will say, "Lord, Lord...didn't we....\n\nand He will say, Depart from me, I never knew you."
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God supports salvation by the atonement he provided through Jesus Christ.
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No one can attain salvation. Salvation is a gift given freely to man by God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Placing your trust in an idol or in a prayer or in good deeds places your faith in the wrong area. God is so omnipotent, we cannot even fathom what he would look like, so by creating an idol of him, we are limiting who God is. If you read the entire Bible, nowhere will you find a physical description of what God looks like. There isn't even a physical description of Jesus.\n\nThere is only one way to salvation - 1) Admit God is perfect, 2) Admit you are not, 3) Accept that Christ is perfect and sacrificed his life for yours, and 4) Receive your gift of salvation through faith that Christ has paid for your mistakes.
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To me it's the notion that the only way to pass is to accept jesus as your savior. The first (and to me) most important idea in the Bible is that we are in God's image. And who saved God? obviously no one, He is self-eternal.\nIf we really are in the image of God then we too must have the ability to organize our animating energy (soul) into a permanent consciousness. But by telling us that the only way to heaven is through accepting Jesus, modern preachers have become the snake in the garden. And they've turned Jesus (as the external solution) into the fruit which we must consume.\n\nLet me point out that I truly respect Jesus. He is one of the few that has managed to organize his animating energy into a permanent consciousness, and I believe him to be in the image of God. But to deny that anyone else can do it without Jesus, is to deny that we are all in God's image.
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God is the most important person in my life. I also know that you can go to heaven if you get saved and the way that you get saved is if you believe that Jesus died on the cross from your sins, rose on the third day, and then you have to confess to God in prayer that you are a sinner and that you believe He died on the cross for your sins and ask for His forgiveness on your sins and it is THAT simple, salvation is a free gift, we can't earn it. I am a baptist who believes (let me rephrase that, I KNOW) that this stuff I said is true. My name is Matthew James Needham and don't be shy to contact me on this. my email address is im_proud2b_a_christian@yahoo.com
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My personal opinion is that in order to get to Heaven one must believe that Jesus was the Son of God who came to earth, was crucified upon the cross, buried, rose to claim victory over death on the third day and ascended into Heaven.  It is through this faith that I am given grace and pardoned of my sins so that I may live eternally with my Savior and God.
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He wouldn't . . . but what I don't understand is why people who do believe in Christ . . . invalidate his sacrifice by saying that Jesus is God.\n\nBy doing that . . . people who believe . . . can not be saved.  Because it would not a fulfilled the law . . . to make it possible for believers to be redeemed.
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It's all about faith. In fact, every religion requires faith. And when a person accepts Christ, God looks at "the faith." People aren't supposed to understand the mind of God. We weren't meant too.\n\nInstead, we're supposed to trust Him no matter what. For myself, I'd rather live for something worth dying for, rather than living for nothing at all. \n\nThough it may seem hard to believe something without physical evidence, a man must wait upon the Lord for renewed strength and a new vision to see the light.
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I believe in Jesus and I believe that he is my savior and by believing in him I will go to heaven someday BUT I do also believe that Jesus is loving and if we live our lives in his image (help others, be a good person) then he will not send you to hell.   I can't imagine Jesus kicking a Jewish woman who was a good mother, loving wife and a teacher (like him) out of heaven and send her to hell because she did not believe he was the son of God.  I don't know. Maybe that makes me a bad Christian but I think what you do in this life should hold some weight.  Then all of us can be liars, steal or do whatever just because we believe Jesus died for our sins.  That doesn't make sense to me.  I think Jesus wants to do good in this life too.  Just my opinion.
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Acts 16:31  So they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."\nRomans 4:24  ...It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,\nJohn 3:16  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\nJohn 3:17  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. \n\nRead John Chapter 3 especially and you will see the Love of God through Jesus.  This is the way to heaven, according to the Bible
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ has such significance to God's plan of salvation for mankind that God made it a spectacular day, so to speak.  The veil, which was 60 feet tall, 30 feet wide, and three inches thick, was torn from TOP to bottom by God Himself because Christ's victory over sin and death gave all who believe direct access to the Father...no more veil between mankind and God!  \n\nAlso, the resurrection of saints (those who died having had faith in God and the Messiah) was almost a celebration, or display of God's power to make the dead alive again, and of the new life all can have because of what Jesus Christ did.  Matthew gives a very brief account of the matter and that's it.  \n\nWhat we CAN know is that these all lived in their fleshly bodies and died at the end of their life.  It would be interesting to hear all the details of how happy and surprised their families were, etc., etc..  However, Matthew did not detract from the MAIN event, which was the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the implications to all of mankind because of it.\n\nWe must be CAREFUL TO NOTE that these newly raised saints did not go to heaven.  This would conflict with scripture all over the place.  Scripture is clear that NO MAN has ascended to heaven but the Son:\n\n"No man has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven.” John 3:13\n\nGod's plan of salvation is foreshadowed in His holy days.  The resurrections of mankind are likened to the harvests.  There will be two (not including Jesus Christ who is the first fruits of the resurrection).  The saints are raised to life in the first resurrection.  The rest of the dead will be resurrected AFTER the millenium.  But no one has been resurrected to heaven or anywhere else or the resurrections would be silly.  All "sleep" until their particular resurrection.\n\nThe two resurrections are found in Revelation 20:4-5:\n\n"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.\n\nBut the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.  This is the first resurrection."\n\nThe first thing we notice is that those in the FIRST resurrection refused the mark of the beast, indicating that no one has been resurrected yet and won't be until after the great tribulation.  These are seen upon thrones because they are the saints (believers in Christ) that while they lived in this first age prior to Christ's return, believed on Him and had faith in God.  These will be raised to glorified bodies like Christ and be given immortality and incorruptibility at Christ's return, just as I Corinthians 15 describes:\n\n"Behold, I show you a mystery; We (saints) shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, \n\nIn a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be rasied incorruptible, and we shall be changed.\n\nFor this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."\n\nThis resurrection occurs simultaneously with the catching away (rapture) of those alive when Christ appears.  (The pre-tribulation rapture theory is just that...an unscriptural theory that is not supported any where in scripture.) I Thessalonians 4:16-17:\n\n"For the Lord himelf shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archagnel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:\n\nThen we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."\n\nThe rest of the dead are raised to
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He is my savior who died for me so I can have my sins forgiven and eternal life in heaven with him when I die. He loved me enough to die for me for all my sins that's unconditional love. So I can be saved. And yes I do truly believe in Him. He is the son of God.