{"id":4968,"date":"2011-03-23T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richimages.net\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:22:03","slug":"whats-your-view-concerning-easy-believism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/?p=4968","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your View Concerning Easy-Believism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a term going around &#8211; called &#8220;Easy-Believism.&#8221;  Have you heard of it?  If not, just take a look at the results that you get from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=easy-believism&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;aq=t&#038;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&#038;client=firefox-a\">google-ing that term<\/a>.  It&#8217;s a term that&#8217;s mostly used in a negative way to fight a popular trend here in the US.  Easy-believism deals with the age old question:<em> &#8220;What must I do to be saved?&#8221;<\/em>  It seems that over time, many have boiled the answer down to accepting a set of beliefs.  Is this all there is to it?  &#8211; Just accepting a set of truths taught from the Bible?  <\/p>\n<p>Consider this short article a welcome to share your views in the comment thread below.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Assumptions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bible is true.<\/li>\n<li>\nMankind has a serious <em>separation-from-God<\/em> problem.  That problem started in the Garden of Eden with the rebellion of man in disobeying God.  As a result, our nature has become one that goes against God as evident by our continued natural behavior today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>(1). An Important Issue to Consider:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are we made right in the sight of God from accepting some a set of <em>spiritual truths<\/em>?  Are we adopted into the family of God based on mentally understanding and agreeing with a <em>crucial set of beliefs<\/em>?  If someone has a correct understanding of Biblical teachings, is this all that is required in order to enter into the presence of God after death?<\/p>\n<p>      -or-<\/p>\n<p>Can someone, <em>who even believe correct doctrine<\/em>, not meet the requirements of God necessary to enter heaven?<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Supporting your opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If accepting correct beliefs alone is all that is required, what scriptures can you find that support this view?<\/p>\n<p>If accepting correct beliefs alone are not all that is required, what scripturs can you find that support this view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a term going around &#8211; called &#8220;Easy-Believism.&#8221; Have you heard of it? If not, just take a look at the results that you get from google-ing that term. It&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-4968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-easy-believism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richimages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}