Därför att det står att det funkar på det viset i bibel.
Frälsning sker på Guds nåd och ej genom arbete.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
(Ep. 2:8-9)
Att nåd bytts ut mot tro är väll Luthers idé tror jag. Att vara godhjärtad är samma som "salvation by works". Att det känns orättvist och varför man inte skall tycka att det är orättvist förklaras av den förlorade sonen berättelsen.
And he said, A certain man had two sons:
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
(Lu. 15:11-30)
Att man måste tro på Jesus kommer ur hans egna uttalande.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(Jn. 14:6)
Egentligen är ovan bibeltexter problematiska för samfund då samfunden i regel vill
1) att du skall arbeta, betala eller på annat sätt gynna samfundet, därför säger de att man snarare måste göra alla dessa goda gärningar som de hittar på för att bli frälst.
2) att du skall tro att samfundets ledare/präster är det som står i vägen mellan dig och himlen och att du måste gå igenom dem för att kunna bli frälst dvs tro på samfundet snarare än Jesus.
Jag skulle själv säga att tro på Jesus och frälsning genom Guds nåd är som två antikorruptionslagar som förhindrar att grundsatserna manipuleras och omformas till någonting som det inte var tänkt.
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