Can Someone Believe In God But Not Be Saved?

 

The Holy God Most High Summons Each Person To Recognise Their Wrong

God is all together righteous without ever having even the tiniest tint of wrong in His nature.
Sovereign God is the author of holiness, purity, patience, love, honesty and much, much more. And that is precisely how He built humanity.

The Facts In Relation To The God Of Heaven

This is not something that God simply made a decision to do, to make things hard for us, it truly is who He is. God Most High, cannot be anything else, or do anything else. Each and every one of His commands are there to shield His nature and to protect you and I.
These governing laws were designed INTO the whole universe, and also, imprinted into humankind.
He cannot do something that is inconsistent with His Nature. You might describe it as the 'unchanging laws of the cosmos.'
So, the Sovereign God of the Bible is the Grand Creator God of the entire universe, as well as the producer of the minutest part of an atom, which is indiscernible to us. The Word of God declares this of God:

I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images. (Isaiah 42:8) For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. (Deuteronomy 4:24)
The LORD is exalted over all the nations, his glory above the heavens. (Psalm 113:4)
Yours, LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to you. Yours, LORD, is the kingdom, and you are exalted as head over all. (1 Chronicles 29:11)
And all the angels were standing around the throne...and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, (Revelation 7:11)
Where wast thou when I laid up the foundations of the earth ? tell me if thou hast understanding... (Job 38:4)
Doubtless , thou knowest, for thou wast then born, And the number of thy days is great!..... (Job 38:21)
?Can you direct the movement of the stars? binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion?..... (Job 38:31)
And the LORD answered Job and said, ?Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.? Then Job answered the LORD, and said: And Job answered and said to the Lord, ?I am nothing?how could I ever find the answers? I will cover my mouth with my hand. I have spoken once, but I have no answer?twice, but I have nothing to add.?..... ?Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified? Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? (Job 40:1-5, 8,9)
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said: I know that thou can do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee. Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ?I will question you, and you shall answer Me.? By the hearing of the ear I heard You, And now my eye has seen You. Therefore I take back my words and repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:1-6)
Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matthew 5:3)


The majority of people at present, have only heard about God, they are yet to actually encountered Him.
Then for what reason, do some people haughtily require answers from God, to just about everything we disagree with? Of course, the big questions we have of proper justice and the suffering innocent are correct, nonetheless not to the level where we can command the All-powerful Holy God to provide humans an account of His so-called deficient handling of life.

A Producer Owns Their Own Personal Conception, That Is The Law

The Most High God not only is the owner of the universe, but He also is the owner of us also, and all He would like is what belongs to Him. His demand is to be devoted to Him in turn. It's hard to swallow, but this world is His project, and He can construct it how He wants. If you or I built it, we would make the rules. However, the Most High God tells us:

'And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:' (Deuteronomy 6:5-6)

People Weren't Crafted As Bots Or Even As Pets But Rather As Family

God may possibly have taken all problems out of this life, to make life easier, but only by creating each of us as dutiful robots. Except that is certainly not what He desired.
He wished for a being that had free will and would willingly choose to love Him.
A being something like His being.

Independent Choice Really Is A Hazardous Thing

But, the danger with granting your created life form their own autonomy, is that they may well reject the creator, and that is exactly what we have done.
This is a critical issue, consider all those things we commit and also think think and also commit which are bad, often called sin in the Holy Bible, they absolutely infringe on God's character and righteousness, and once again, you may possibly say a violation of the Unchangeable Laws of all the universe - the ordered universe He built. These transgressions have divorced us from God Most High.

'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?' (Jeremiah 17:9)

'Who can detect his own mistake? Cleanse me from hidden sin.' (Psalm 19:12)

Think about it like this ghastly contrast. A new sterile and clean wipe removed from a new sealed packet to clean your badly bleeding cut, now, contrast that with a used, unsterilized wipe that has been sat and stepped on for a month off the waiting area flooring or seats. Tell me how are you feeling? Argh, nauseating. Now, that is only a touch of how God is revolted by our conduct that is bad, even the seemingly trivial matters we did bad as well as sinnful thoughts, that dishonor God's perfection, and breaks the uncompromising laws of the cosmos.
Even the wrong things we deem trivial, such as: unforgiving of somebody that insulted us, resentment, conceit, blaspheming God and disregarding Almighty God our Maker, and a range of other things.

Every Single One Of These Bad Things Are A Liability That Have Got To Be Paid Back, To A Most Holy God

Our sins are debts to God:
'And forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors.' (Matthew 6:12)

Every one of these instances breach the exquisite pureness, honour and authority of God. Every instance we act them, it is giving God a smack in the face. In the Scriptures, contained in the Ten Commandments, The Lord says you are not to speak God's Sacred name in vain or indifferently. At any time, have you ever blasphemed His Holy Name? The Lord states that we show respect to our mother and father. Have you ever talked back to your father? The Lord says never to long for others belongings. Have you ever had a strong desire to possess a friend's lifestyle, home, husband or things? The Lord says that it is wrong to steal, have you at some time, thieved something ever?

God is aware of all things. And, each and every wrong has to be punished. A day is coming when ALL wrong MUST be judged, or you might say, clear the account to be compatible with the fixed laws of all the universe. Or as the Bible calls it; to satisfy the fury of God. This may come as a shock to almost everyone, because they are generally told that God Most High treasures everyone endlessly, that they believe that God Most High would never be wrathful with anybody due to any bad things they are doing.

Constantly I find people, ignorant of these principles, say ?What! I was told that God ceaselessly loves the human race? What's this additional requirement on righteousness??

And I enlighten them, "Sure, the Holy God does love the world, but still you cannot acquire the love quality of God and neglect the righteousness quality. It's unachievable. It is definitely explained in the Bible, and people are not often told about this. Sadly, in this era people just tell the nice teachings, rather than the whole unlikable truth.
We will not comprehend the Everlasting God by with our earthly standards, dreams and conduct. Sovereign God truly is ?from an alternative time and place? and He informs us exactly who, He is and how He operates in the Bible. Asking that He abide by our system, just gives us a futile hope in a belief that is not factual and will end soon.
Humans incorrectly fault The Creator God for the miseries in life, wrong, it is definitely not God?s fault. He made all things superbly, The first man ruined everything and we continue to screw up. They infringe on God's character and righteousness; the 'unchanging laws of the cosmos.' Almighty God is unable to simply come along and make everything nice for humanity. The system or process of things that The Creator God put in place, needs to be completed.
Our debt of transgression must be paid.

But, God provided a means for our wrong to be punished, to meet the legal demands of God's everlasting Law, the established law of the cosmos. That astounding means, was the ultimate sacrifice, death, burial and the resurrection of His Only Son, Jesus. And, this astounding course of action was performed for all to see in front of all creation ? mankind, angels and Satan.
Jesus was the flawless sacrificial Lamb that can pay for our bad stuff; attitudes, thoughts and ways. No other means could pay for our evildoing.
The Bible says:

'Because all people have sinned (done bad things), they have fallen short of God's glory.' (Romans 3:23)
So, just being a 'really good girl or boy ? and doing much good is unable to protect humans from the grave punishment of the bad attitudes, thoughts and ways, just Jesus Christ can. If all we do every day is be a good person and that includes going to church, that will not protect anyone and cannot permit a person to get into heaven. Meaning, going away to eternal distress, specifically hell:

'For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.' (Romans 6:23)

Fundamentally, it is not being good that will save you and I, you have to say you are sorry for the bad things you have done, and live fully for God. I will clarify this more in just a moment.

Because of this I find that attending funeral services of a non-Christian troubles me greatly. This is also the reason why my central priority in my life is informing others about who the Creator God actually is. To enlighten others who never attend church, as well as, to others who usually do attend church but still still haven't properly fully understood the truth. The misunderstanding of the Creator God is not uncommon, and is given that the teaching they listened to was unclear or it was destroyed by the unsound ideas of modern political correctness, from teachers constantly trying to cause the Timeless, immutable God to seem as if He is just a lovable, snuggly grandaddy type god, lacking His serious holiness and the punishing of wrong stuff. That is a pretend god a creation of their own feelings.
Over and over I hear atheists assert ?So how could God be like that, I thought He is a God of love?? Sure, but you can't deny Almighty God's horrendous justice, because His Holy Scriptures states considerably more as regards His purity and horrendous justice, than His love.
It is not possible to grasp the reality of the Eternal God with our thinking and our existence. Sovereign God really is ?not of this world? and He tells human beings who He is and how He judges in the Holy Bible. Expecting Him to follow your own standards, simply gives us a precariously wrong picture of the Creator God.
But, keep in mind, there is no means to hide it from God if you are not genuine. God is aware of all your thoughts.

God Supplied The Settlement For Each And Every Sin, Yet...

In order to have one's bad things pardoned and to stay clear of hell, is to recognise how sinnful we are in front of a Perfect God, and also to tell God that we are so sorry for all our trespasses. And the next step is to utterly surrender one's life to Him, and conform to Him as boss for the remainder of our existence. Fundamentally this, is the true pattern of our existence on the earth He put together for Himself:

'And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;' (Luke 9:23)

God never said ?Now live your life as a good or nice person, fulfill various good deeds for lots of other people, and you will live with me in heaven .?
Truly, this is what Jesus declared regarding how to be forgiven of your trespasses:

'And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
Two men went up to the temple to pray; the one a pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ?God, I thank You that I am not like other men?extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. ?But I fast twice in a week and I tithe everything that I possess.? And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but smote on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
I tell you," said Jesus, "the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great."' (Luke 18:9-14)

The Religious man in this anecdote is not committing the so-called ?bad' wrongdoings like arson, as we like to say, but he did not receive forgiveness by Almighty God.
While the taxman did do ?bad' wrong things but was forgiven by Sovereign God, due to the fact that he really lamented his ways.
It is a humiliating undertaking to acknowledge we are and have been, wrong and to submit our lives fully to the Creator God. Yet lacking it we are not able to be redeemed from our sinfulness, we must come to Almighty God meek and weak. Jesus said :

'He called a little child and set him before them. and said, ?Truly I say to you, if you may not be turned and become as the children, you may not enter into the kingdom of the heavens;' (Matthew 18:2-3)

An Individual's Shortfall Will Not Be Settled By Living As An Really Decent Character

'For it is by grace God?s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ that you have been saved actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life through faith. And this salvation is not of yourselves not through your own effort, but it is the undeserved, gracious gift of God.' (Ephesians 2:8)

Will You Opt For Anguish Or Surrender Everything To The Creator God?

'And he said to them all, If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me;' (Luke 9:23)

And ?Pick up your cross day by day? meant, we have got to obey in a self-denying mode on a daily basis for our belief.
The Bible also says:

'Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship. (Romans 12:1)

'But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.' (1Peter 3:15)

In summary: Almighty God becomes your supervisor. Your entire life. And as Scripture instructs, we live for God, studying the Scriptures, communicating with God daily, sharing with others about the Sovereign God, and assisting anyone when lead to. The Creator God, really is our assignment and crusade for the rest of our lifetime.

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