Do we honestly believe that the Father would send His only begotten Son to die for us if man could have earned it himself? Assuredly not! His plan of salvation came to this earth in the person of a Savior, Jesus Christ, to accomplish what man could not. God wants no one to perish but all to share in eternal life with the Trinity and through Jesus we can choose.
God is more interested in a person’s loyal love than in the observance of external rituals.
Jesus refers ironically to the Pharisees as the righteous. They were not righteous; that was only how they perceived themselves because of their pious and scrupulous law-keeping.
Jesus did not condone the activities of sinners, but required repentance—a change of mind that recognizes the need of a Savior and recognizes Jesus Christ as the only Savior.
Mark 2:17
17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Matthew 9:13
10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Luke 19:10
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