1084 Conditions for Attaining Salvation
I
There are several conditions for attaining salvation:
Firstly, you must be willing to read God’s words and listen to sermons;
secondly, and this is also the most important condition,
no matter what big or small matters
you encounter in your daily life,
especially matters related to doing your duty
and to the major work of God’s house,
you must be able to seek the truth principles, seek the truth principles,
rather than acting based on your own ideas,
doing whatever you wish, or being arbitrary and reckless.
When faced with matters,
you must not act based on your corrupt dispositions,
thoughts and viewpoints, and knowledge,
but replace these things with the truth principles.
This is one of the principal ways God saves people.
It’s so that you can take God’s words as your basis and principles,
take God’s words as your basis and principles in everything you encounter,
and so that His words reign in every matter,
so that His words reign in every matter.
II
It is so that you can handle and resolve every matter based on God’s words,
you can handle and resolve every matter based on God’s words,
rather than relying on human intellect and preferences,
or approaching them according to human tastes, ambitions, and desires.
Through this manner of preaching and fellowshipping about the truth,
God’s words and the truth are wrought into people,
enabling them to have life where the truth is their reality.
This is the mark of salvation, the mark of salvation.
Through this manner of preaching and fellowshipping about the truth,
God’s words and the truth are wrought into people,
enabling them to have life where the truth is their reality.
This is the mark of salvation, the mark of salvation.
from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth I. How to Pursue the Truth (20)