Protestant vs. Catholic, etc....what church gets people to heaven?
Bill H. Tallahassee, Fl.
Bible Answer:
What Denomination or What church saves?
Answer: Protestant, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, etc. etc. etc.....no, none of these, because a church or any denomination, cannot save anyone.
Matthew 1:21 “Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for HE (not She, not they, not any church, etc.) shall save His people from their sins.”
No Church creeds, dogmas, baptisms, confirmations, communions, memberships, etc. etc..etc. Can save anyone.
Salvation is only in one name....the name of JESUS.
Acts 4:12 “Neither is there Salvation in any other, for there is none other NAME under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”
Acts 2:21 “Whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord, shall be saved.”
Acts 16:31 “...Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved...”
John 1:12 “...as many as have received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God...”
John 6:37 “...him that comes unto Me, I will in no wise cast out.”
Men and women are not saved through any denomination, or church, but by Grace through Faith.
Ephesians 2: 8,9 “Ye are saved by Grace (The very riches of God, given to us at Christ's expense) through Faith (faith in Christ's atoning sacrifice), and that is not of yourselves (man is incapable of his own salvation, no matter how ingenious he might be);
for it is the GIFT of God.
Not of WORKS (Including religious works), lest any man should boast.”
“...lest any man should boast.” Do you think if people could provide for their own Salvation, through ...church memberships, dogmas, creeds, confirmations, baptisms, communions, etc..etc..etc...that they would boast?
They surely would!
But if man could devise his own salvation, through his own means....then certainly Christ's sacrifice would be in vain!
But man can not devise his own salvation and Christ's sacrifice was not in vain!
John 1:12 “...as many as have received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God...”
Romans 5:1 “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
The Apostle Paul is not her referring to some kind of “intellectual high jinks ,” for we read in ...
James 2:19 “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”
Believing in your neighborhood garage, doesn't make you a mechanic, just as believing in God doesn't make you a son of God, for even devils believe in God, and they are hardly Saved.
We must first receive Jesus as a repentant sinner (confessing our sins), and surrendering our lives to Him. That word “Lord,” means Master.
I John 1:7-10 “...The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.”
Through Confession, Repentance, and Reception, of Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and Lord, the Holy Spirit then produces in us the New Birth, we are Born Again.
John 3:3, 5,6 “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
And as Christians, we are told to live faithful lives.
James 1:22 “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
Luke 11:28 “...blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Salvation, is not through any denomination or church, but through Jesus Christ.
John 14:6/ 10:9 “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, except by me. I am the door: by Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved...”
