What are the requirements to be a Christian?

[James Banta]

Originally Posted by HopefulSaint

Here's a deal for you: You make sure that the people who attack the LDS stop just saying "The Bible says...." and I will try to always cite chapter and verse too, for as long as they do the same.

I will start right now:

John 17:3 NKJV

Wonderful verse.. Eternal life has nothing to do with works at all but is totally dependent on knowing God.. Since Jesus is also called God in scripture (John 20:28-29), and Jesus accepted that worship as God (Matthew 8:2-3).. So it is life eternal to know the Father, and the Son. After all they are the only true God. A Christian will have no problem with that verse doctrinally. After all not one of us will tell you that the Father and the Son are the same Person.. That is a mistake that mormonism makes again and again about what the Trinity really is.. I have taught it several times.. The Father is NOT the Son nor is either the Holy Spirit.. They are separate individual Persons, who are the one true God.. I have even explained this in creation to show how such a thing is possible. After all height is not breath, nor are either of those width. Each is a separate dimension, each infinite therefore each is all the space that can be (Not a single point in space that isn't part of each of all three of these dimension).. Yet all of them make one space.. That was a revelation given to me. A way that my weak human mind to understand the concept of how three eternal persons can be one Being.. Can you understand.. IHS jim