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1 | Please explain | Matt 7:13 | sharp | 8538 | ||
Who is John MacArthur? I hope you read Romans chapter 6 on your way to Romans chapter 10 so you could see the importance of baptism to spiritual life. Paul had just spent three days in prayer, he met Jesus on the road to Damascus, he now knew who Jesus was and was ready to do what ever Jesus wanted him to do. The gospel of Mat. 1:21 says his name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. Paul was calling on the name of the Lord, atleast there is no doubt in my mind, what ever point you wanted to make I would ask was Paul saved in his sins or from his sins ie. washed away? Belief, repentance, water baptism and the infilling of the Holy Ghost put us in the body of Christ. |
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2 | Please explain | Matt 7:13 | Hank | 8550 | ||
Sharp, thank you for your note and comment. As for your question about who John MacArthur is -- well, he's a conservative Bible scholar, pastor and teacher and, in my view, quite an extraordinary and reliable exegist of Scripture. Among his many well-known works is the MacArthur Study Bible (Word Publishing) It was from this publication that I used an excerpt in my post which drew your question about MacArthur's identity. ..... You advance certain points in regard to baptism and -- please don't construe this as an effort to avert the issue -- but I believe that it would not be prudent on this one post to attempt a comprehensive essay on baptism. I say this mainly in view of the fact that there have been any number of posts on this subject before and can be accessed by using the Search function. I will however attempt a brief response to your question, "Was Paul saved in his sins or from his sins, i.e., washed away?" Now I'll use my disclaimer "attempt," because quite honestly I'm not sure we are on the same page on this. It's not clear in my mind what you mean by "in" his sins or "from" his sins. Or by "washed away." So, instead of trying to parse your words, I will make a summary statement of what I believe the Scriptures clearly teach about salvation....... Our salvation is effected solely by one thing, which is our faith in Jesus Christ. This and only this is the way to be saved. Over and over again in the New Testament -- some 200 times over -- belief, or faith, in Christ is stated as the single condition for salvation. Salvation is wholly of God by grace and is offered on the basis of and made possible by the redemptive work of God's Son on the cross. It is given solely -- solely -- on the merit of the shed blood of Jesus Christ -- His substitutionary death for our sins -- and not in any wise on the basis of human merit or works, or on water or anything else. Water did not therefore wash Paul's sins away and neither does it wash ours away. Jesus Christ saves us. Water does not. And now a few "witnesses" -- John 3:14-17; John 5:24; John 6:44-47; Acts 4:12; Rom.5:1-2; Rom.11:6; 1 Cor. 1:21; Eph.2:1-9; John 1:12; Eph.1:7; 1 Pet.1:18,19. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Please explain | Matt 7:13 | jim | 8552 | ||
I guess if you study that much you should be pretty good. I see Saul being saved while he is in his sins but he is being saved (Holy Ghost filled) to help keep from sining.If we are to be saved it would do us good to learn to obey and not have so much beleive. In Christ Jim | ||||||