@LadyGrace It's also the whitest white boy name out there except maybe Clinton or Claton.

@LadyGrace Is your first name Grace?

@Lostpoet
You're exactly right. That's why Jesus came, to give us direction and show us what is the right way. That's why he left us the Bible, His Word.... so we wouldn't have to guess how to have salvation and to lead us down the right path, but no one will know that if they don't read His Word. That's not blind faith. God told us exactly what to do and how to do it. He didn't leave us in the dark.

Jesus clearly told us that he is the way, the truth, and the life. Yet people say God is a liar and that's exactly what Satan wants them to believe. God's word is a light unto our path and a lamp unto our feet, that leads us through the darkness of this world and shows us the way to heaven. The Bible says there will be no excuse for people who say they didn't know how to be saved. But some people don't want to find God in this world, for the same reason a thief can't find a cop. They do not want to live by God's standards but want to make up their own and that's where they get all this confusion coming in. And God is not the author of confusion. Satan is and the Bible says so.


I love what you said here about the spirit, however, people are not aware of how to receive the spirit. One does not receive it automatically. For all these answers we can always go to the Bible to find the truth. Jesus said the Holy Spirit is only given to us, when we accept him as a Savior, ask for forgiveness of our sins, God the Father then forgives us, our sins or then erased from the account of our life and we start over as new Creations in Christ. Jesus washes our sins away and they are remembered no more. When that happens, since we made a commitment to live by God's Word and live by His Word, This is when the Holy Spirit is sent to us, a clean vessel for Him to dwell in, transform our whole life to a brand new life in Christ, to be our teacher and guide, through our whole lives. It has nothing to do with feelings. It has everything to do with God's promises to save us and keep us always, unto eternity. We don't have to guess. We know we are saved because God keeps his word to us to save us and nothing can ever again separate us from the love of God and we shall live with him eternally in heaven. That's a promise. That's Security in Christ. God never breaks a promise. When a person gets saved, God doesn't remove our old dead spirit. He sends his Holy Spirit to transform our spirit, and make it alive through Christ, and our spirit is awakened to God and all the spiritual things, and gives us an understanding through the Holy Spirit, regarding spiritual things and our "spiritual eyes" are opened up, which means that being now saved, we can understand God's world now and things pertaining to the spiritual world. It is the Holy Spirit that teaches us all things, as we read the Word and he reveals the meaning of God, and the "why" of everything, because we now have the Holy Spirit to teach us these things. Without the Holy Spirit one cannot know things of the spirit. That is exactly why the Bible says that one cannot understand the things of God, unless he is born of the spirit. This speaks of the Holy Spirit, when he came to dwell in those who accepted Jesus as their Savior. Spirit understands Spirit. God said if you do not have the Holy Spirit then that's why people call the Word of God foolishness because they don't have the Holy Spirit to interpret the Word for them, and therefore they cannot understand it.

@LadyGrace
I am not big in predestination talks I don’t believe just because God selects that others didn’t have opportunity for salvation per our DMs.

@Pfuzylogic Yes, I had put that up before I saw your other answer in a private message.

@fakable
We are in agreement. Jesus is lovely.