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1 | What exactly must a person to be saved? | NT general Archive 1 | MPierce | 79412 | ||
I have a question as to how and when a person is saved. What exactly must a person do inorder to be saved? Some people tell me that you must go before the chruch alter and profess Jesus Christ as your lord and saviour. I've also been told that making this profession where 3 or more gather in his name, will also save someone. Also, what about if one was Catholic from birth and went through the various practices of the Catholic religion up until adulthood. Then began practicing another religion. Was that person saved as a Catholic or were they never saved? I find this all very confusing. There is nothing worse than someone calling you a non-Christian when you thought you were. | ||||||
2 | What exactly must a person to be saved? | NT general Archive 1 | Hank | 79453 | ||
Regeneration (being born again, salvation, "getting saved") is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. Salvation is wholly of God by grace. It is effected on the basis of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ on the cross, is given and made possible on the sole basis of the merit of His shed blood and not in any way on the basis of human merit or works. See John 1:12; Eph. 1:4-7 and 2:8-10; 1 Peter 1:18,19 ..... Regeneration is instantaneous, a work of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God (John 5:24; Romans 10:17) Regeneration is accomplished when the penitent sinner enabled by the Holy Spirit responds in faith to God's provision of salvation. Salvation is wholly of God, but this does not abrogate man his responsibility to "repent and turn to God, and do works meet for (befitting) repentence" (Acts 26:20). --Hank | ||||||