Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: Jesus paid for my sins, but there’s a catch. I have to devote myself to him.
Doesn’t that defeat it’s power as a gift? — I mean, it’s more like a business transaction now.
The gift is eternal life, salvation is the cost of the Son of God purchasing you from who you sold yourself to.
He doesn't have to give you eternal life, though he saved you from your sins, the choice is yours to continue in them or find out that the only real freedom is constraint.
Love constrains you to choose to Obey out of intimacy and tenderness, not devotion to a cause or religion.
Michael James Stone
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