What's your understanding of your salvation?
A
man illustrated, and asked, "do you agree?"
"I
like the analogy I have heard credited to the Eastern Churches. A captain goes
to sea to rescue shipwreck survivors. He searches back and forth for hours. He
finds me, he throws me a rope, I grab it, I put the loop around my body. He
pulls me in. He gets me hot food and drink, wraps me in blankets and gets me
to medical care. Did I save myself because I had to do one thing. Or does the
captain get all the credit? Of course he does. That is how I see my salvation.
Do you agree?"
He
received this reply from a Bible teacher...
No,
I disagree entirely with the man-made caricature of salvation.
First,
the Bible describes the man in the water as hating the Captain and will have
nothing to do with his stupid rope! and would rather drown in the sea at the
will of the Sea Monster Satan that rules the waters, and in fact, he is a
quadriplegic who cannot do anything with the rope.
Read
John 10:26; Rom 8:7; I Cor 2:14; Eph 2:1-3; etc., etc.
Second,
if the sea is filled with thousands of drowning folks, and the Captain throws
the rope to all of them, and only five use it as you described, did the five
save themselves in comparison to the others, when the Captain tried his best to
save all of them? Absolutely, they saved themselves by making the difference!
Read
John 8:47; I Cor 1:29-31; Eph 5:25-27; etc., etc.
For
the cause of God and truth...
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Fiction and fable blasted to shreds!
