QUESTION
RECEIVED:
I
question my faith.
I
have prayed a prayer and wonder if I am a Christian or if there is a Jesus or
God.
Can you be a Christian/Agnostic?
Profile:
Male 18-30 North America
MY
ANSWER:
Young
man I pray this gives you assurance.
First
of all faith comes from above-it is God sent.
Romans 10:17 New
King James Version (NKJV)
17 So then
faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Faith
is not generated by your thoughts or actions.
It is
God given.
God
sent His Son to live a perfect life and to die for the sins for all who repent
and believe.
This
is only when he sends the Holy Spirit to convict you of your sins.
Ephesians 1
13 In Him you
also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation;
in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the
purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
Your
Creator knows you better than yourself.
Do
you really think He will not save you because of what you perceive as your
physical or mental condition? Of course
He does not.
The
work of Christ- and not your works- makes you a new creation.
2 Corinthians
5:17
Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold,
all things have become new.
Jesus
Christ said you must be saved or “born again”.
John 3:16
New King James
Version (NKJV)
16 For God so
loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
You
do not get half-way saved. You are saved
or not saved. Only God or you know.
God
wants you to be saved.
2 Peter 3:9 New
King James Version (NKJV)
9 The Lord is
not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to
repentance.
The
Apostles hid in terror after Christ was crucified.
After
they saw the resurrected Christ they gladly faced lynching and murder to share
the lifesaving gospel.
It is
not you it is Christ who saves.
Trust
in the work of Christ nor you.
He is
the Savior.
I
urge you to pray-repent and declare Jesus Christ as Lord.
And
Trust Him.
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