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NASB | John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Subject: Where does it say "MUST be baptised" |
Bible Note: 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 |