15 Oct '19 10:25>
@suzianne saidYou are confused. Jesus preached about how one gets eternal life. Paul preached about Jesus [why he came, why he died etc] AND about how one gets eternal life. You church Christians confuse the two. What Jesus preached is NECESSARY and SUFFICIENT for eternal life.
No, I disagree (yeah, obviously).
When he set forth the two commandments that were most important, the very FIRST (here meaning most important, not numerically) one was to love the Lord your God, with mind, heart, soul, and strength. You can not "follow the gospel" without "loving God" to the utmost, and to say that one can is ridiculous folly. And, of course, to love G ...[text shortened]... ho know why the Father sent his son to bridge the divide between God and man are wrong. IF you can.
Many who heard the Sermon on the Mount, did not even know who Christ was, or that he died, or rose from the dead. Yet according to Christ they will get eternal life, while the "lord Lord' professors of faith will be cast out. Knowledge is not a requirement for eternal life. Keeping the commandments of Christ is a requirement. Churches have removed this requirement and this is why churches are full of corrupt hypocrites heading for damnation.