They Wouldn't Suggest

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?  1 John 5:5 (NKJV)

In the name of Him who was given all authority in heaven and on earth, Messiah Yeshua “Jesus,” greetings. See Matthew 28:18 (NKJV)

As I watched television a follower of the Anthanasian Creed said, “There are things one has to believe to be saved.”  The program was live and sending in questions, was encouraged.  With a little more than an hour remaining in the program, I E-mailed, my question.

Here’s my question, written just the way I sent it: 

You said there are [things] one has to believe to be saved.  Besides [believing in] Jesus Christ, what else does one have to believe to be saved?

Although many of the questions sent in were answered in that one hour time slot, mine wasn’t read or discussed, and I’m okay with that because I didn’t expect it to be.

“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.”  John 3:16 (NKJV)

You can gather as many followers of the Anthanasian Creed as you like, those believing unless one believes the doctrine of the trinity one cannot be saved, and not a single one of them would tell you that John 3:16 is subject to the Anthanasian Creed.  They wouldn’t suggest “that whoever believes in” Jesus, isn’t saved unless they also believe in the Anthanasian Creed.  On second thought, maybe some of them would.  Either way, the person seeking forgiveness for their sins, crying out to Jesus to save them, just prior to them taking their last breath here on earth, will never be subject to followers of the Anthanasian Creed, let alone dammed to hell’s fire for rejecting the Anthanasian Creed altogether.

God bless.

In His Care… Jim