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NASB | Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among people by which we must be saved [for God has provided the world no alternative for salvation]." |
Subject: Is Salvation only through Jesus Christ? |
Bible Note: Greetings, Johnny. In addition to the other very excellent answers to your question, I would add this. After the sacrifice of the Lamb of God on the cross at Calvary, there is no longer any efficacy in the blood of animals--which was what Israel used under the Law of Moses in the Old Testament. I think the book of Hebrews sheds a fair amount of light on this topic. "For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. ... For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ... He takes away the first in order to establish the second. ... Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; ... For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ... Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?" [Hebrews 10 NASB] Salvation is available today to anyone who will accept the gospel of Jesus Christ--Jews included. The covenant God made with Abraham is still in force through Christ. Christ descended from Abraham in the flesh. Everyone who is born of Christ becomes a descendant of Abraham by faith, and thus heirs of the covenant. "and he [Abraham] received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them, and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised. For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;" [Romans 4:11-13 NASB] Kind regards, Tim D. Cormier Tennessee Preacher |