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1 | Can God save us the way HE WANTS TOO? | Acts 2:38 | Grace and Truth | 50642 | ||
Joe! I see you stopped at vs.18 in Gal 3, if you would have kept reading you would get all of what Paul was saying, vs. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. This is God's promise to us! I am so glad that this thing about baptism is not a mistery to me, and I am glad that I'm a baptized Holy Spirit filled man of God. 'Praise the Lord'. We need to teach what the bible says, all of it. This would not be an issue if Jesus had not said it. Jesus said it, I believe it, and that settles it! | ||||||
2 | Can God save us the way HE WANTS TOO? | Acts 2:38 | Reformer Joe | 50673 | ||
You wrote: "Jesus said it, I believe it, and that settles it!" Actually, your believing what Jesus said has nothing to do with whether it is settled or not. :) And if we want to look at the whole of Galatians, we can skip back a few verses an take a look: 'Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us--for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"-- in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brethren, I speak in terms of human relations: even though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it.' --Galatians 3:13-15 We see from the entire chapter that the covenant we enjoy in Christ is the same covenant that God made with Abraham, not the covenant God made with the nation of Israel (vv. 16-17). How was Abraham justified before God? By faith plus baptism? No, Abraham was never baptized at all. By works? No, as we have seen, his believing God was credited to him as righteousness before he put Isaac on the altar. As Abraham was justified by faith alone, so in Christ we are also declared righteous by God on the basis of faith alone. In the New Testament, was baptism added as a condition to the covenant made to Abraham and his Seed? What did the passage above say? "when it has been ratified, no one sets it aside or adds conditions to it." The Mosaic Law did not add conditions to the covenant promises God made to Abraham and his spiritual progeny (that's Galatians 3;17 as we already saw); the covenant that Jesus Christ made with the visible church, instituting outward signs of baptism and the Lord's Supper, also cannot be new conditions added to the already-ratified covenant between God and Abraham. The way that anyone has ever been saved is by faith in God's redemption alone. That was demonstrated outwardly in different ways in different times among God's covenant people, but the covenant we share with Abraham through faith in Christ has NO conditions attached to it. --Joe! |
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