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QUESTION  13 :  Well, we have different beliefs. I know I'm going to heaven when I die, and I haven't been baptized because I am not ready to be, but just because I haven't been does not mean that I am not going to heaven, it just means that I am not at the spiritual part that I want to be. I have accepted Christ as my savior and that to me, is being "born again!?"

You said, "I have accepted Christ as my savior and that to me, is being 'born again'."

I like the term you use, "to me." My friend, if we are going to write our own salvation script, why did we accept Jesus as our personal savior? This is the reason, "he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him." Not those who think what they believe is right. Faith saves when faith obeys.

The one you said you accepted said that "Except a man be born of the water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). Do you believe what the one you said you accepted said, or do you continue to believe what you want to believe?

That will be the final judge of where you spend eternity. Whether you obey his word or believe what you want to believe. Remember you said, "to me."

Peace.

SHE WROTE:

I haven't been baptized. I'm not ready to be. God knows, I know, and now you know.  If I die I will go to heaven. Remember this: Judge and you shall be judged (by God).

I REPLIED:

Why do you say I'm judging you, I'm not. If I were to say if you don't wear a pink dress with green ribbons you won’t go to heaven, then I would be judging because that would be my own opinion. On the other hand, if I say what God said then it's not I that judge you but God that judged you. If you ran the red light and I told you that you're ‘gonna’ get a ticket, especially when the police on the corner saw it. Am I judging you or giving you the ticket, No.

I basically know the law that if you run the red light you're ‘gonna’ get a ticket. Similarly, I know what the bible says about salvation, if you are not born of the water and of the spirit you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven, regardless of how good and sincere you might be.

"Believest thou this?"

SHE WROTE:

I do not think that God will send me to hell for not being baptized. I love God, and he knows I do. He knows I am his child and therefore he will welcome me into his kingdom with welcoming arms.

I REPLIED:

He said, "if you love me keep my commandments."

The reason a woman says yes to a wedding proposal and does whatever her husband says, is because she loves him. If she didn't, she wouldn’t have truly loved him. In other words, if you say you love someone, you would trust when they tell you to do something. If you say you love God, do what he says you MUST do to be with him; or else you cannot. If you said you love God and don’t want to marry to him, you’re basically infatuated. He told us,

"Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5) - Jesus.

Do you accept this proposal (wedding ring)? If so, do what it says.

{Source: Actual email correspondence from a teen church girl I had in 2002}

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