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NASB | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ. |
Subject: Is hearing necessary for salvation? |
Bible Note: disciplerami, One reason why your doctrine does not conform to Scripture is: 1 Cor 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. Paul makes this statement following his explanation of the difference between those who have the Spirit of God as compared to those who have the spirit of the world. 1 Cor 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, Those who have not recieved the Spirit of God, are without the means of understanding those things that God has freely given. They consider them foolishness. The fact that they are unable to understand the gospel as being other than foolishness, does not excuse them from the consequences which follow their rejection of it. For, Paul says they are without excuse. Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. Because the natural man loves darkness and hates the light. He suppresses the truth (which God has provided in the witness of the created order) in unrighteousness. Those who recieve the Holy Spirit recieve resurrection from spiritual death. They will NEVER taste the second death. Salvation does not depend on baptism but on God's mercy; because God has decreed that they shall be saved. Rom 9:16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. John Reformed |