Sunday, October 17, 2010

Tailor-Made Salvation

Jesus is so interesting. Three different people ask God the same question (how do I inherit eternal life) and He gives 3 different answers and none of them are "Receive Jesus as your personal savior." We have been taught that there is only 1 way but Jesus didn't seem to have gotten the same message we were given.

Listen to these three different answers. To one (Matthew 19), He says to obey the Law and then proceeds to quote parts of the 10 Commandments, to another (Luke 10), He says to love God and your neighbor, and to another (John 3) he says to be born again.

Our linear minds say, well, which is it? After all, this is a pretty important question ... after all, there can (logically) be only 1 answer! But instead of there being only 1 answer that fits all, maybe each salvation is tailor made to the one who does the questioning. Maybe our salvation is more tailor made than we know.

1 Comments:

At October 27, 2010 at 10:44 PM , Blogger Tricia said...

Like maybe we each have a different journey so God expects different things from each of us?... Possibly.. The part that bothers me.. is where we get the answer "Receive Jesus as our personal Savior".. I don't have a problem with Jesus being our Savior.. just that I don't see it as the answer to that question...

 

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