Salvation is a Free Gift

It is a part of (yet partially written) book Salvation by Victor Porton.

WARNING: This page is a rough draft, only partially written.

All Rich and All Poor Go to the Hell

(Job. 34:19-20) 19 ... Nor regards the rich more than the poor; ... 20 In a moment they die...

Here God says that rich and poor people die. To die means to go to the hell, it doesn't mean to go to the paradise. All rich, and all poor people go to the hell!

Who then goes to the paradise? Only these who are not rich and are not poor (or are both rich and poor, expressed in other way). This does not mean that people of middle wealth, but these whose wealth cannot be measured.

Consider for example these situations:

a poor mathematician which has nothing to eat living in a capitalistic system but made a discovery which really costs trillions USD;
a big capitalist which possesses hundreds of factories but is persecuted by a communistic government and lives like a beggar;
the same capitalist which prior to the communists' revolution indeed lived not in richness because he preserved every USD for poor children in Africa.

The above are some of examples of the financial states which may have saved Christians, nor rich nor poor. This World may consist of rich, poor, capitalists, hirelings etc., but we are not of this World.

Well, Christians sometimes may indeed live in richness but the money does not stick to our hearts. That is for a saved Christian is not hard to give his money to these who need it. It means more than to simply be generous. It means that we do not live in the financial system of the World at all, our real state cannot be measured with money. What money mean? These mean the measure of some financial state which has stick to somebody's hands. But if money do not stick to somebody, he in fact has no richness and no measure of richness.

Anyway, why one would need money if these stick to his hands and he cannot transfer these? It was a real occurrence when somebody tried to give me money to make a contract with me, but he was unable to do it, the money literally sticked to his hands; devil held the money in his hands, and that man was equally unable to pay as a man who would be not able to get money in his hand.

Bible says about this: (??about robbed richness). This means that the dishonest richness is meaningless to have: if you simple have stolen money, then you do not how to use the money. These would be useless for you: you would be able to purchase only things like products about which you don't know whether these aren't poisonous and likewise. Well, sometimes somebody steals and purchases a medicine for the stolen money, but it is a useless life which adds to his suffering in the boredom not knowing what can be done in the life.

The above may seem to be simple well known principles, but Bible adds the knowledge that these principles are kinda absolute, because not only police but God himself watches over finances. I only recently understood the importance of the finances, that God himself is interested in so little detail on a small planet as amounts on somebody's accounts.

Mystery of the Trade

Trade is much more than simple exchange of goods. Trade unites intellects of many people in one big intellect. A trade thinks, makes decisions and plans as a whole big system. (By the way, it often makes for people the illusion that some will or decision of the trade is the will of God because it may be not will of a particular man and it is hard to identity whose will it is, and the trade itself sometimes seems to be presence of God. It is false, the trade as a whole often makes mistakes as well as separate people make mistakes, and sometimes separate people, even poors, are more clever that the whole trade. The trade is a false god.)

If you steal you harm trade. Like other living creatures, protecting itself the trade will attack you. Even if police is unable to catch a thief, he has a problem as the trade indeed watches over his money and offer him costly and looking good but worst things to purchase, so that a successful thief is not really rich. And much worse, if you steal, the money will enter into you brain so that you will live like under hypnosis; you'd have what to afraid because money are cruel, and especially when they protect themselves. (And if even the trade is unable to catch a devil-clever thief, God from the heaven will some day punish him.)

Trade is a false god, and we, Christians, are to overcome it wiping it out from the minds of people, freely giving money, and so violating the laws of the trade, like thieves but in the opposite direction. Only Yahweh is the living God, trade as a false god dies (likewise as the communistic system has died). But only who has overcome trade for himself, who is neither rich nor poor, but is poor in spirit and rich by faith enter the Kingdom of God.

(Rom. 5) 15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification. 17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. 19 For as through the one man's disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one will many be made righteous. 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly; 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What is the Christian salvation then? (Rom. 6:23) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Salvation is life giving freely in victory over all kinds of greed. However it is not just communism but when people themselves are free from any form of greed serving God rather than serving material goods. When our neural cells will cease to be greedy they will stop to kill each other, and there will be no illness and death. Communism is inherently a failure because it is based on greed that is the desire of material goods, so communism cannot overcome the trade that is people's greed. Communism is attempt to overcome greed with greed, but we overcome trade with love and life of Christ. The difference is that communists try to take possession over the trade but we to kill the greed.

Also, communists try to make their own grace creating a state separate from the outside World by a physical border, but we understand that we must live even in the World not by principles of the World: (Rom. 5) 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly; 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Salvation is Free

So we became captives of the trade (financial system).

(Is. 52:2-3) 2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, Jerusalem: loose yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion. 3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and you shall be redeemed without money.

We will be redeemed that is set free from the slavery of sin and the hell without money.

This has several aspects:

Redemption without Using Money

Nobody can use money to save nor himself, nor somebody other.

(Rom. 6:23) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Salvation is not only free for the saved person, not simply somebody's gift (like freely given Bible) but is a gift of God (not gift of a pastor, sibling or some other man). As it is a gift of God, for salvation cannot be paid anything by any man.

Nobody who is inside people's financial system can pay for salvation, but only God which is outside. It is because that the very thing from which we need to be saved is the financial system itself and a payment inside the system is not a solution.

Well, you could say:

We know that we can be saved only by God Himself. We only see as God saves somebody with us like the little flies from an anecdote sitting on the horns of an and saying We have plowed. That is God does not need our help to save somebody and can save anyone without our help.

(Jn. 6:44) No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. and (Ro. 9:18) ... he has mercy on whom he desires.

God only teaches us the topic of salvation showing how He saves others with our participation.

Why you explain it to us? What else you can say?

Before I realized that the salvation is always free, my mode of thought was this:

I realized that not I but God saves. Not knowing what to do in the World where I cannot do the deal of salvation, I started to play imitating as if I would be the savior who saves souls from sins and hell. I tried to imitate God who saves sinners. But during time this play became the essence of my life. I built something like a scientific model in my mind in which I considering myself as the savior (despite of knowing that I'm not), and lived accordingly that model, knowing that is wrong but not knowing anything better.

Imagine yourself in a prison from where you have no mean to flee and you know this. But indeed you have no other purpose of life rather than outside of there. In this situation I have begun to regularly attempt to do impossible thing to save somebody with my own attempt as one would try to flee from the prison by breaking two meter wide walls and attempting to jump over 30 meter wall. (Well, to jump over a 30 meter wall is possible with the force of Holy Spirit, but to save a sinner with our own attempt is not possible.)

The thing which I planned to do were first to earn enough money and then save people using these money (printing Christian brochures, purchasing Internet advertisements etc., even paying people for hearing my lectures if they otherwise refuse to hear).

But I was unable to earn money. I have found no honest mean to earn money because of the need to pay to lawyers to know whether the state at all allow me to earn money with some mean, to pay for writing a business plan to get a credit (how I could do this myself not knowing their standards) etc.

Finally I decided to destroy my country with thermonuclear weapons, thinking Are hundred of millions people worth to live, if they prevent one man to ?? a check and require to pay $100 for coming out from the country which I do not really owe to them. The more they are the less they are worth, millions people against one man is far too bad, band of millions robbers and robbers are useless.

My plan was this: I will hypnotize terrorists, enter into a airplane, they under my control command the airplane to fly into a city chosen by me. At the same time I will start a thermonuclear war and destroy several cities on the way of the airplane so preventing it from landing inside the country, so that to successfully fly outside. I have been preparing to accomplish this plan.

Now you can easily understand why God set the salvation to be only free. If this would be not so, then I together with these who a like me would completely destroy the Earth, we would be in turn destroyed by angels of higher ranks, and these by angels of yet higher ranks. So the entire World would be destroyed. Praise God for He made the salvation only free (and that God explained it to me before I have destroyed half of the Earth).

Some day you will not help a poor man controlled by an angel which has not yet understood like me that the salvation is free and he will destroy the Earth. Read the book of Apocalypse for details.

When you found to not pay for a good in a shop your purchase is considered void and you at least must return the good. With salvation it is the reverse: if you've found that you've or somebody other (except of Christ on the cross) has paid for the salvation your salvation is void. (God's payment for your salvation is a special case because independently of how much God pays he does not become any poorer, so that he does not really pay anything.)

Redemption in Poverty

People convert to Christ only when they do not have money. This may be either literal zero value on the account, or debt, or inability to really use money because e.g. complete slavery to gambling, alcohol etc.

God set all of us to start from equal that is from zero.

We convert to Christ only when we realize that money have no value for us. We realize that we cannot pay psychiatrists enough for they to cure our soul, only then we call to Christ for salvation. It is what I mean.

Note that Bible does not recommend to rob somebody to make him to convert.

Returning All Debts

How then we can be saved, when Bibles are paid, preachings are paid, church buildings are paid etc. but salvation is always free? (If these are not paid by ourselves then anyway some other man pays to print Bibles and build church buildings).

In fact nothing is paid. Anything we have we receive for free from God. (Jam. 1:17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights...

Money (if not count money which passively lie in a store and so don't matter) are documents which express some kind of debt to somebody (e.g. to the government). If we'd count all debts (not only these which are expressed in people's documents but also these which are not expressed like debts arising from unjust laws) including even debts we owe to God who gives us light, air etc., then the sum will be zero. In this sense, the summary value of all money is zero and there are no debts at all.

In people's financial system we ourselves or a charity pays e.g. for Bibles. But God gives us Bibles for free.

We have here two different financial systems: God's system of calculation where there are no debts and we receive anything for free, and people's system(s) where there are debts and even Bibles are paid. The issue is that in people's systems there are mistakes (not counted stealing and robbery, wrong calculations, misunderstandings etc.) So, non-zero price paid for somebody salvation is a miscalculation by people as salvation is always free.

The thing God requires from us is to turn from errors to the correct reckoning. What we should do is to simplify God's problem (even despite of no problem is hard for God) to nullify all debts. To do this we should eliminate errors from our calculations as close as we can. If we'd eliminate mistakes completely (well, only God can this) we'd found that salvation is always free.

And because there are some error in financial calculations regarding us, believers, we are not rich and are not poor (see above).

So, when we see a budget of an evangelistic campaign, we should realize that is a 100% miscalculation. In reality it is always zero. Because it is an error, we are to correct it making it as close to zero as we can.

I changed my evangelistic task from saving people using my money to saving people trying to no use money for this deal. I deem it more close to the God's way of grace than my former attempts.