Some people believe that one must believe in God according to the Bible. Can one be saved by believing in God in the Bible?
Bible Reference
“Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And you will not come to me, that you might have life.” (Joh 5:39-40)
The answer from God’s word:
“Only God’s work can save man. The Bible cannot save man. It has not had any change over thousands of years. If you worship the Bible, you will never receive the working of the Holy Spirit.”
from “A Statement About the Bible (3)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“People have been studying the Bible for so many years, making so many interpretations and spending so much effort. And they have many divergent views about the Bible and have been arguing about them endlessly. As a result, more than two thousand denominations have been formed today. People all want to find some higher interpretations or deeper mysteries from the Bible. They all want to explore the Bible and want to discover from the Bible something about the background of Jehovah working in Israel or the background of Jesus working in Judea or more mysteries that others do not know. Their attitude toward the Bible is ‘worship’ and ‘trust,’ and no one is fully clear about its inside truth and substance. So, even today people still feel an indescribable mystical sense about the Bible, and they ‘worship’ and ‘trust’ the Bible all the more. Now, people all want to discover from the Bible the prophecies concerning the end-time work, wanting to find what work God will do in the end time and what the signs of the end time will be. Thus, people have a more intense worship of the Bible. The nearer the end time is, the more people believe in the prophecies in the Bible, especially the prophecies concerning the end time. People worship the Bible so much and trust the Bible so much; consequently they have no heart to seek the work of the Holy Spirit. People think in their notions: Only the Bible can bring the work of the Holy Spirit; only in the Bible can God’s footsteps be found; only in the Bible are hidden the mysteries of God’s work; only the Bible speaks clearly about God’s everything and all his work, and no other books or men can; the Bible can bring the work in heaven to earth; the Bible can start an age and end an age. As people have these notions, they have no intention to seek the work of the Holy Spirit. So, no matter how helpful the Bible was to people before, now it has become a hindrance to God’s newest work. If there were no Bible, people could seek God’s footsteps elsewhere. But now God’s footsteps are ‘controlled’ by the Bible, and the spreading of the newest work is extremely difficult and can hardly take a single step. These are all caused by the famous verses and words in the Bible and by many prophecies in the Bible. The Bible has become an idol in people’s heart and a ‘riddle’ in their mind. They simply cannot believe that God would do another work outside the Bible, and they cannot believe that they can find God apart from the Bible, much less can they believe that God would make a new start apart from the Bible in the final work. They find these incomprehensible and unbelievable but also unimaginable. The Bible becomes a great hindrance to people’s accepting God’s newer work and a difficulty in God’s spreading his newer work.”
from “A Statement About the Bible (1)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“The Bible is a book of history. If in the Age of the Grace you ate and drank the Old Testament and practiced the requirements of the Old Testament age, Jesus would reject you and condemn you. If you applied the Old Testament to the work Jesus did, you were a Pharisee. If now you eat and drink and practice the New Testament and the Old Testament together, the God of today will condemn you, and you cannot follow the Holy Spirit’s work of today! If you eat the Old Testament and also the New Testament, you are one outside the stream of the Holy Spirit!!
The work Jesus did in the New Testament age opened a new work. He did not work according to the work of the Old Testament or apply the words spoken by Jehovah in the Old Testament to his work. He did his own work, and he did some newer works, which were higher than the law. So he said, ‘Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.’ According to what he had accomplished, many regulations were broken. He brought his disciples into the grainfields and they picked some heads of grain and ate. He did not keep the Sabbath, and he said, ‘The Son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath.’ At that time, according to the rules of the Israelites, whoever did not keep the Sabbath would be stoned to death. Yet Jesus did not enter the temple or keep the Sabbath. Those works he did Jehovah had never done in the Old Testament age. So, the works Jesus did had gone beyond the laws of the Old Testament and had been higher than the laws of the Old Testament and were not done according to them. In the Age of the Grace, God had no longer worked according to the laws of the Old Testament and had broken those regulations. Now some people still hold on to the Bible, especially the laws of the Old Testament. Isn’t this denying the work of Jesus? Some say that the Bible is a holy book and must be read. Still others say that God’s work can never be abolished, the old testament is a covenant God made with the people of Israel and it cannot be abolished, and the Sabbath must be kept forever! Aren’t such people too absurd? Why did Jesus not keep the Sabbath at that time? Was he committing a sin? Who can see through this matter? By people’s understanding ability, they can never know God’s work no matter how hard they read the Bible. Not only do they not gain any pure knowledge of God, but they have bigger and bigger notions, with the result that they begin to resist God. If God were not incarnated today, people would all be ruined by their notions and die in God’s chastisement.”
from “A Statement About the Bible (1)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“If you want to see the work of the Age of the Law or how the people of Israel walked in the ways of Jehovah, you have to read the Old Testament. If you want to know about the work of the Age of the Grace, you have to read the New Testament. Then how to see the work done in the end time? You have to receive God’s leading of today and enter into the work of today, because this is a new work and no one has ‘recorded’ it in the Bible in advance. Today God is incarnated, and in China he has chosen some other people as his chosen people. God works on these people, continuing his work on earth and continuing the work of the Age of the Grace. The work of today is a path men of former times have never walked and is a way no one has seen. It is a work that has never been done, that is, God’s newest work on earth. So, the work that has never been done is not history, for now is now and it has not passed. No one knows that God has done a greater and newer work outside Israel on earth, which has gone beyond the boundary of Israel and gone beyond the prophecies of the prophets, and which is a new and peculiar work beyond the prophecies, a newer work outside Israel, and a work that man cannot see through or imagine. How could there be a definite record of such a work in the Bible? Who could have written down beforehand the work of today without missing any of it? Who could have written down this unconventional and greater and wiser work in this old musty book? The present work is not history. So, if you want to walk the new way of today, you have to come out of the Bible, going beyond the scope of the books of prophecy or the books of history in the Bible. Only then can you walk the new way properly and enter into the new realm and the new work.”
from “A Statement About the Bible (1)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“Since there is a higher way, why study the low and outdated way? Since there are newer word and newer work, why still live in the old historical record? The new word can supply you, which proves that it is a new work. The old record cannot satisfy you or meet your present need, which proves that it is history, not the present work. The highest way is the newest work. When there is a new work, the former way becomes history for people to recall no matter how high it is, and it is an old way no matter how valuable it is for reference. The old way is history though it is recorded in the ‘holy book.’ The new way is reality though it is not recorded in any page of the ‘holy book.’ This way can save you and can transform you, because it is the work of the Holy Spirit.”
from “A Statement About the Bible (1)” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
“Those who are controlled by regulations, letters, and the shackles of history can never receive life and can never receive the perpetual way of life, because what they have received is only the turbid water that has been kept for thousands of years, not the water of life that flows from the throne. Those who have no supply of the water of life will be forever corpses, forever playthings of satan, and forever sons of hell. Then can they see God? You only want to keep history and to remain in the same place and maintain the original situation, but do not seek to change the status quo and discard history. Then aren’t you one who is forever against God? God’s work is advancing at a mighty pace, like surging waves and rolling thunders, but you sit still waiting for death and wait for a windfall. Then how can you be considered one who follows the footsteps of the Lamb? How can it show that the God you hold on to is the ever-new and never-old God? And how can the words and sentences in your yellowed books lead you to step into the new age? How can they lead you to search for the footsteps of God’s work? And how can they lead you to heaven? What you hold in your hands are only letters that can comfort you temporarily, not truths that can make you receive life. The letters and verses you read are only verses for you to enrich your tongue, not words of wisdom for you to know human life, much less ways for you to be perfected. … You should see who is doing the work now and who is doing the end-time work of saving man now. Otherwise, you can never receive the truth and can never receive life.”
from “Only the Last Christ Can Bestow to Man the Way of Eternal Life” in The Word Appears in the Flesh
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