{"id":303,"date":"2014-03-27T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=303"},"modified":"2014-03-27T15:55:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T20:55:28","slug":"religion-or-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Religion or Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><div class=\"su-heading su-heading-style-default su-heading-align-center\" id=\"\" style=\"font-size:35px;margin-bottom:10px\"><div class=\"su-heading-inner\">Religion or Salvation <\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">R<\/span>eligion is what man does for God. <\/span>Salvation is what God does for man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all&#8221; (Isaiah 53:6). Religion depends on our behaving. <i>Salvation depends on our believing.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-pullquote su-pullquote-align-left\"><em>Religion is what man does for God.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved&#8221; (Acts 16:31). Religion is striving for a better attainment. Salvation is secured through a perfect atonement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold&#8230; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot&#8221; (1 Peter 1:18-19).<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-pullquote su-pullquote-align-right\">Salvation is what God does for man.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Religion or salvation\u2015which do you have?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from\u00a0<a title=\"The Old Old Story\" href=\"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/the-old-old-story\/echoes-of-grace\/lpv23400-23405\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Old Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=303&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/email_famfamfam.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=303&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email This Post<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eligion is what man does for God. Salvation is what God does for man. &#8220;The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all&#8221; (Isaiah 53:6). Religion depends on our behaving. Salvation depends on our believing. &#8220;Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved&#8221; (Acts 16:31). Religion is striving for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religion or Salvation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustrations","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}