Re: Can someone please help me find answers
Originally Posted by
ButterflyWoman
If you want to go from a straightforward Biblical point of view, Paul is blazingly, unmistakably, completely clear on the idea that you don't have to "do" anything, that you are redeemed by virtue of faith. Faith meaning "trust", similar to the phrase "in good faith". Trust that you are already acceptable, and go from there.
This doesn't mean that your "personality" (such as it is) is without flaws or other programming glitches (so to speak), and those things may change, spontaneously sometimes, or by what seems to be spiritual movement apart form your conscious self. But it's not "you" doing these things. The material self can no more remake itself or rewrite itself than a drawing of a rabbit can pick up a pencil and erase bits of itself and draw them in ways it likes better. So, again, it comes back to trust/faith, and allowing yourself to be shaped. A Christian POV would be that this is the work of the Holy Spirit.
The salvation, regeneration, whatever it ends up being, is not the work of works, and not something that you do for yourself. Any sort of "but then you must do X and Y" is directly contrary to what Paul had to say on the subject.
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