You are not coming across as sincere. In fact you seem to want to argue that you can still be saved and carry on living a sinful life. You do not sound genuinely repentant so if that's really the case then you are not saved. If you are saved you are supposed to be a new creation, washed clean but you seem as though you still prefer the filth of the world.
OK, so thank you for sitting over me as a judge and telling me I have yet to earn my salvation.
All the preachers I've listened to so far do not teach what you are saying. They claim it's faith alone plus nothing!
So, it is TRUE that "all who call upon the name of Jesus'.. by Faith, are eternally Justified by God through Faith.
OK it sounds like salvation is faith alone plus nothing!
And no, you can't keep doing what you're doing, as you are insulting God by your behavior
I'm hearing a lot of people say this would be earning salvation and would be insulting to God to try and be good so I can earn His love and grace.
You ignored my questions asking if you were truly sincere when you prayed for forgiveness.
I thought I answered that. Yes, I sincerely believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins and because of what He did all my sins are forgiven past present and future which is what all the big time preachers say including the pastor at the baptist church where I got saved.
The pastor who told you to pray the sinner's prayer should also talk to you about growing spiritually
He said there's nothing I can do and God does the work. And I should not try to do any work as this is something the Lord does.
but there should be a desire for leaving a sinful life.
Can you tell me what passages say it's sin to smoke weed and to have a girlfriend and having these things mean I'm not saved anymore and God has taken salvation away from me?
I'm hearing some stuff like this but nobody is showing passages from the bible to show what they are saying is true.
I don't accept that people are saved unless God tells me they are.
Does He send you and email? Maybe a text message on your phone?
Exactly how does God tell you if someone is saved or not?
The pastor told me God lets him know who is saved and he said I was saved and was going to Heaven!
Notice verse 10:
8For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10
So we are not saved unless we walk in good works?
We can't lose our salvation.... however, a born again child of God has a desire to grow spiritually. A sinful lifestyle will grieve the Holy Spirit within a born again Christian. Therefore, to walk with Jesus is a peaceful, contented life.
But, we cannot lose our salvation!
Sounds like none of the rest of this stuff matters if we cannot lose out salvation.
That's what is odd is people saying you cannot lose your salvation and then they say you have to quit all this other stuff in order to be saved and if you don't then you aren't saved
Which way is it???