Is the worship of God really necessary?

[richardhutnik]

insomniac17 said:

richardhutnik said:

Unless you are chosing to make those verses mean "accept Christ as your savior", I don't see where the Bible says that, because none of those verses tell people to "accept Jesus".  What I see over and over is whether or not God will accept someone or not, not the other way around.  The final judgement isn't people accepting or rejecting Christ, but whether or not they are accepted or rejected by God.  There is calls to confess, believe, repent, call upon the name, and even be baptized, but not accept.  Now one can maybe measure a person's faith by whether they accept information about Jesus or not, but to say that is what one needs to do falls FAR short of what the Bible say, Christian tradition says, or actually how people who genuinely do stuff close to what Jesus called people to do.  It is just part of one manifestation of Christianity, the born-again evangelicals.  

I interpreted those verses to mean that only by accepting Jesus as your savior can you be saved. If you don't do that, you can't be saved. "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.'" 

I suppose you are having a problem with me saying that accepting Jesus saves you, because final judgement is left up to God? I guess that's fair, but John 3:16 seems to say pretty clearly that if you believe in Jesus, you will be saved. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

Try seeing it this way: If Christ didn't do that which Christ did, then those who would believe in him would perish.  It explains why it is essential for those who believe.   This doesn't mean the means of being saved is believing, just that what Christ did is essential to those who would believe.  It is in keeping with what Paul wrote about if Christ didn't raise from the dead, Christians are the most deserving to be pittied.