Question 20: Just as all people fell through Adam, are all people saved through Christ?

 

Question 20: Just as all people fell through Adam, are all people saved through Christ?

Answer: No. Only those who are grafted into Christ by true faith and receive all his blessings are saved.

First, while the doctrine states that all people fell through Adam, the origin of sin was not in the world, but in the Garden of Eden. Romans 5:12 states, "Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned."

The first man served as the conduit through which sin entered. The first man represents Christ, and Christ transmitted the body of sin to man and woman.

So how did sin originate? The Hebrew word for "man" is "adamah." The first man is "adamah" in Hebrew, the male name is "Adam," and the female name is "hawai." This is why people confuse the first man and the male Adam as the same being. The first man is the firstborn mentioned in Colossians 1:15, and the male and female are separate entities from the first man, symbolically representing the fallen angels of God's kingdom.

Therefore, sin is the sin that Adam and Eve committed in the Garden of Eden when they disobeyed God's word because they wanted to be like God, and were cast out into the world. However, speaking in terms of the story of the Kingdom of God, it means that the spirit of an evil angel who opposed God because he wanted to be like God was trapped in a body and became a human being.

Therefore, sin is the spirit of every evil angel, each with their own sin, entering the body of sin inherited from the first man. Every human being born into this world becomes a sinner. And because original sin resides within the body of sin, we commit worldly sins while living in this world.

Second, regarding salvation, it is said, "Only those who are grafted into Christ through true faith and receive all his blessings are saved." This omits repentance. Repentance must precede faith before believers can possess true faith, which comes from heaven. Therefore, the statement, "You are saved simply by believing" is not true faith. True faith means entering into Jesus Christ and being united with Him. Jesus Christ is the very essence of faith.

It is not my faith, but the faith of Jesus Christ. Galatians 3:23, "But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept in custody until the faith that would be revealed would come." Therefore, those who enter into Christ and possess the faith of Christ are saved, and those who are saved are those who receive God's blessing.

Faith must come from God. Today, if you logically explain to people why Jesus is the Son of God, died on the cross, and truly rose again, they will say they have decided to believe, and that believing in this way will lead them to heaven. But this is wrong.

Such faith cannot arise from within humanity. The Bible speaks of human pronouncements, even from Noah, a preacher of righteousness, a righteous man of his time who walked with God. Even though he preached the way of righteousness for 120 years, everyone in agreement refused to listen. With the exception of Noah and his family of seven, no one accepted the idea of ​​God's judgment. This is the Bible's pronouncement regarding humanity.

Jesus says the same thing. Even when the king prepared a wedding feast for his son, everyone unanimously declined. Humanity has rejected the feast of salvation God created. The convenient Christianity created by humans all seek the Lord in its own way, yet He does not appear. The claim that people seek the Lord but He does not appear is false. The Lord said, "Once upon a time, there was darkness." It's not that we are in darkness, but that we are the darkness.

"No one seeks God, not even one." This is God's declaration to humanity. Yet, today's churches offer the kind of banquet-like statements people might make. Believers say, "This church has a great atmosphere, and the content is perfect for me." "I should start believing now," they say. If they sincerely confess the Lord with their mouths and decide to believe, it's as if the Holy Spirit has worked and they've been born again. This is humanity's greatest delusion.

 

In the Bible, a demon-possessed person fell down and worshipped Jesus as soon as he saw Him, saying, "You are the Son of the Most High." Who told him this? A demon told him. Even demons teach and know that Jesus is the Son of God. Those possessed by evil spirits said to Jesus, "You are the Son of God. What do you want with me?" But those possessed by even stronger demons fell down and worshipped Him, saying, "You are the Son of God." Even demons taught about Jesus. The Bible says, "Even demons believe and tremble." That is not the faith that leads to salvation.

"Before faith came, we were kept under the law, kept in chains until the faith that should be revealed came to us." Titus 1:1-2 says, "For the faith of the elect, and the knowledge of the truth which follows godliness, and the hope of eternal life." The Bible says that faith is the faith of those whom God has chosen. This is the born-again faith. Faith in God is not a faith that people believe on their own, but a genuine faith that God gives to those whom He has chosen. Faith is a gift of grace that the Lord gives only to those who repent. People asked, "Are only a few people going to be saved?" Jesus answered, "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for in that day many will seek to enter and will not be able."