These various ideas are sponsored by people that do not know God. Traditions handed down from generation to generation, when true apostolic doctrine was contaminated by pagan rites helped by the Roman Catholic Church which has lost the way of truth long ago. I could continue on this subject, but friends, whoever you may be, God says that it is: ‘Christ, who died for your sins.’ The apostle Paul thought it important to remind this very thing to Christians in Corinth, declaring ‘Now, brethren, I want to remind you of the Gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this Gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly, to the words I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For, what I received I passed on to you as of first importance, That Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the scriptures!’ (1 Corinthians 15: 1-4) 

‘Conversion’ of a dead sinner into a living forever son of God, which I have proved to be essential to salvation, would not be possible without Christ’s love for sinners, people that He came to save from damnation, death, and sin. He did not have to come down to us, but He did, because He loved those He came to save, even before His incarnation. So, Jesus freely gave Himself, surrendered willingly to the mob that came to apprehend Him in the garden of Gethsemane, all along His concocted trial, He could have destroyed this mob with a word! But He gave himself for each Christian, people God gave to Him before the foundation of the earth, out of love. In the light of this amazing love, the apostle Paul says: ‘The life I now live in the body, I live by the faith in the Son of god, who loved me and gave himself for me.’ (Galatians 2: 20) Writing to the Ephesians he urges men and says: ‘Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ love the Church, and gave Himself for her.’ (Ephesians 5: 27) So much more is stated concerning this fundamental doctrine. Doing one’s best, can never be good enough, for if you do not love God, you will have broken the first commandment, and one only is enough! You need to ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.’ (Acts 16: 31)

The apostle John writes to the Christians which he pastored and led to Christ, so to assure them of their position in Jesus Christ: ‘If you know that He (God) is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right is born of God! How great is the love The Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!’ (1 John 2: 29 and 3:1) All good works of piety, or charity if done in the wrong spirit, are filthy rugs! Think on that, faith in Christ is not a cold calculated way of life as some may imagine it, so many live sanctimonious and religious lives, without any thought of God. No! No! It is written: ‘All of us (all men) have become like one who is unclean (a leper), and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.’ (Isaiah 64: 6-7) Faith brings a living change, it is entering into a loving, warm relationship with God as Father and with Jesus Christ as brother! and His Church, with the living help of the Holy Spirit, for he is the one who binds this unique, heavenly family into one eternal entity! The world we have all been born into is a selfish, proud, brutal violent clannish mess! There are wars, murders, dangers on every side! It is in slavery to Satan its master, the Bible calls him the ‘god of this world.’ By faith in Christ, through the new birth, a true Christian has been born out of it, and is now in the family of God! Eternal life is given immediately, down here, to everyone that truly believes, and such a convert, can start living under the true sunshine, for all clouds of guilt and fear will have gone. This is the message of the Gospel that the people of the world reject and trust in their made-up gods and all people, bound to their traditions handed down from their fathers, continue to live their own way, ways that leads to eternal damnation, kept in bondage to Satan and his demonsneedlessly!