Bible Discussion Thread

I would like to share my salvation message to anyone who may come here looking for answers and have not yet surrendered their life to Jesus Christ. I posted this on my personal website a couple years ago and would like to also share it here in the hopes that it might lead someone to Christ who has not yet given their life to Him.

If the Lord leads you to read this, please read in order (Parts will be listed)

(Part 1)

Salvation is a deliverance from the sinful nature that we were born with. We are all born with a sinful nature. We don't become sinners later in life when we commit an act of sin. We were already born with a sin nature, therefore we are sinners.

But what do we do about it? Once we come to the realization that we are sinners, what can we do about it? Can we just continue on in life and try our best not to sin? Can we just believe in God, believe that the bible is true, or go to church every Sunday, or maybe even twice a week, and think that that will be good enough for God?

So now we come to the conclusion that yes, I know I am a sinner, but I'm not that bad of a person. Others see me as a good person, and I do my absolute best to be a good person. But am I good enough? How does God see me?

In my mind, I think He sees that I'm not so bad of a guy. I'm doing my best, I go to church, I believe in God, and most of the time, I treat others well. When I stand before Him someday, he's going to say to me "Great job, come on in!"

But then I begin to dust off the bible I bought many, many, years ago, the one that has been sitting on the shelf, never opened, except the time I opened it up to put a nice "Christian" book marker in it because I didn't want to lose it!

There I was worried about losing that fancy book marker, so I put it in a "safe place." It wasn't going to get lost there unless it just jumped out of the book by itself. I was worried about losing that marker because it was given to me by a close friend, one of those sentimental things.