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1 | Where does it say "MUST be baptised" | John 3:5 | CDBJ | 111334 | ||
Hi Colin, I appreciate the candor in your post and the heart felt things that you have shared. If we were to brake down the ingredients of your salvation, and how you manage to maintain it, how would you sum it up percentage wise? You stated, 1.“When I first believed, I knew little about the bible.” 2. “necessity to repent” 3. “I had believed in the Man” 4. You were baptized twice because you weren’t sure the first one actually worked due to the one performing it. 5. “It felt to us” 6. “my obligations as a Christian and to fulfill them” 7. “I take comfort from the thief on the cross in that I can be a saved child of God even though nailed to the cross of my own ignorance” 8. “don't perform what I have been blessedly given the instruction and power to do, then I am condemned.” 9. “If I say I believe in Christ, knowing what I ought to do yet not doing it though I'm able, then my faith is dead and I am in danger of losing the gracious gift of His salvation.” 10. “I don't believe I could have, or would have, been truly saved had I blown off baptism. In this way I believe baptism is absolutely necessary for salvation.” For all practical purposes there are ten items that you have mentioned, that maintain, what you feel are responsible for and keeping your salvation in tact. How much are you relying on each of these items, if you were to place them in any certain order, and or what percentage of each would you credit as being the most important percentage wise? Personally speaking, and I truly don’t mean to be offensive and I say this in love; but if I had a list of things that long, that I was depending on for salvation, I would be absolutely scared to death to go to sleep at night for fear one of them might be lacking or wrong or not done well enough! From what you have suggested in your post, you can’t, in all honesty say that if you were to die tomorrow, that you would have eternal life. I am sure that you are hoping along those lines but it’s not a sure thing yet. There might be a flaw in one of those things that you thought was right or you have done it a little wrong or maybe it wasn’t just quite enough. How much is enough and are you putting the right emphasis on the proper thing, as far as God is concerned? What is God’s standard for just the right amount?? Please answer, CDBJ |
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2 | Where does it say "MUST be baptised" | John 3:5 | flinkywood | 111428 | ||
CDBJ, You asked me, "How much is enough and are you putting the right emphasis on the proper thing, as far as God is concerned?" Kindly allow me to answer your question after you answer this one: How might Abram have answered your question in the 23 years prior to Genesis 15? Colin |
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3 | Where does it say "MUST be baptised" | John 3:5 | CDBJ | 111446 | ||
Greetings Colin, If you are referring to the question as to where you would go and you are using Abraham as the example, is says in Hebrews 11:8 that he didn’t know where he was going. This is speaking of the physical, and I can also say that next week I am not sure where I am going either. But I know absolutely for sure where I am going when I die because I am only trusting in God’s Son Jesus for my eternal life. Jesus paid the price that satisfied the requirements of a Holy God to get me to heaven. If God was satisfied with what His Son did for me then it’s not even a minor problem for those that are in Christ and fully trusting in his finished work. I have been born into God’s family and I don’t have to be perfect because I have a Savior that is. When God the Father looks at me he sees the person of His Son and His perfect righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. I am believing in what God did for me through his perfect plan. By doing this I am turning away from all of my useless efforts and I am totally committed to Christ and what he did for me, this way it’s all by the grace of God through faith. For me to add something that I can do to help God with my salvation would be like climbing out of a perfectly good jet airplane, that is going 600mph, so I could try and push! God gets all the credit I cant add to it or it wouldn’t be by grace I am putting all of my eggs in one basket, and that is Jesus. There can’t be any bragging on my part because I didn’t do anything to help, I just believe Him. When I die I don’t hope that I will go to heaven I know I will, it’s a done deal because Jesus was the one doing all the that it takes to get me there. 1 John 5:10-13 All who believe in the Son of God know that this is true. Those who don't believe this are actually calling God a liar because they don't believe what God has testified about his Son. 11And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12So whoever has God's Son has life; whoever does not have his Son does not have life. 13I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life. This is all in the past tense, (HAS GIVEN) it’s over, finished. Yes I have been baptized in water, but it sure wasn’t for salvation I knew I had eternal life for sure before I was baptized in water because I received the evidence of my salvation when I was baptized by the Holy Spirit and He revealed the truth to me of my position in Christ. It’s just like Abraham, he received the promise before he was circumcised. Have a great day CDBJ |
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