2 Corinthians 4:13 We Having The Same Spirit Of Faith, According As It Is Written, I Believed, And Therefore Have I Spoken; We Also Believe, And Therefore Speak.

What happens to someone if they do not entirely live their life for God, but they believe in him? It doesn’t seem that that you would go to hell after reading these verses. Can you explain it to me? John 3 15 that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John –

The question you need to answer is what does it mean to believe? Does it mean that if you say “I believe in God” that you go to heaven?

AV-believe 239, commit unto 4, commit to (one’s) trust 1, be committed unto 1, be put in trust with 1, be commit to one’s trust 1, believer 1; 248

1) to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in

1a) of the thing believed

1a1) to credit, have confidence

1b) in a moral or religious reference

1b1) used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul

1b2) to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith

1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith

2) to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity

2a) to be intrusted with a thing

The very passage you quote says that if you don’t believe you are condemned. So it seems important to understand what that really means.

Does believing mean to live your life however you want and disregard God’s commandments?

John 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

If you truly believe in God and desire to serve him, you strive to keep his commandments. All fall short – Ro 3:23  “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” but there is a major difference between striving against sin and today’s “christians” who pretend that uttering some words about believing Jesus is Lord gets you to heaven.

Every person has the same duty: Ec 12:13  “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.” Our question to you – why aren’t you and how will you answer when God asks why you didn’t listen to his servants and obey Him?

Thanks for writing John!

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