Why Must I Be Saved?

Why do I have to be saved? Why can’t I just live my life? What does it matter to Christ if I do what I want with MY life? He should accept me just the way I am if He loves me, right?

Wrong. You are wrong. Why would a righteous God accept sinful nature into His Kingdom?

He won't,

Now I understand why you would ask these questions because I used to ask them as well. The reality is you did not create yourself. He is the creator you are the creation. He is the potter you are the clay. He is the artist and you are the art piece. Are you noticing a common factor within these three comparisons? You would not exist without Him. So if Christ put these principles in place for His creation then the creation is to follow them. We are the only creation that tends to go against their maker and do things other than what they are called to do. Do animals stray away from their families? What about trees? Do they do any other thing than try to grow? How about airplanes? Yes, they were assembled by someone but when assembled correctly, do they do any other thing than fly? No. The reason we don’t do what we were created for (which is His pleasure according to Revelation 4:11) is because of sin. There’s the word. SIN. You are sinful. You were born with a sinful nature because the first man and woman God created disobeyed and we are all offspring of Adam. The Bible says in Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Adam gave his dominion over to satan when he sinned and now we are surrounded by it, making it easy to fall if you are not in the protection of God.

But here is the good news! Later on in that chapter, it states in verse 19 “For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous”

What Adam and Eve did in the garden does not have to be the epitome of your life. Though you are in this fallen world you can be adopted by The I Am. (Galatians 4 4-5). Sin will no longer reign over you because once you truly accept Christ, His Holy Spirit comes on the inside of you. You still have free will but you also have direction. You just have to take heed to it so that you don’t become a slave to sin any longer.

So yes, Christ does love you. He loves you enough to tell you the truth. Not your truth but His. Your truth will lead you to eternal destruction because your truth is polluted. (We as humans are not all-knowing. We as humans have limited knowledge. Christ is the author from the beginning to end. Hebrews 12:2: "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith). He loves you enough to want you to be saved and be eternally with Him. He loves you enough that He died for you knowing that you may not give your life to Him according to Romans 5: 6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Isn’t that amazing? You are loved! No doubt about it. The only thing is you CANNOT come into His Kingdom carrying things that are not of Him. You can’t come into His Kingdom without actually knowing Him and only knowing about Him. He can’t dwell with sin. If He looks at it and is displeased with it what makes us think He wants to live with it 1 (Peter 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.)

With that being said, He loves you and hates your sin; mainly because it leads you away from being eternally with Him. That sounds like a God who cares for his creation and wants to be with them forever. That sounds like good news (gospel).