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NASB | Romans 10:9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 10:9 because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. |
Subject: how to be saved |
Bible Note: Dear John, Man is not 'fallen' until he does as Adam did. "Death spread to all men BECAUSE ALL SINNED". Paul didn't say that death spread to all men by virtue of birth, but by giving in to the temptation as Adam did, each man falls. The only difference between man today and the first man is that Adam started full grown and did not see childhood. A child today does not have sin, but falls when reaching the age where he knows right from wrong, and chooses wrong. Everything God made was good, that also included man's ability to choose. God created man that way in a world with choices. When we today sin as Adam-and we do-then the same sentence of spiritual death falls upon us. The only thing we inherit from Adam is the physical curse. It's funny how you quote this and don't see what it is saying: "JAM 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. " Death, spiritual death, comes about in each us of when we are drawn away by our own lust. Babies don't lust. A baby that cries to be held or be fed or have a diaper change is not sinning: to say otherwise is to pervert the idea of sin. The message of the Gospel is aimed at sinner's, not children who have no sin. We teach them because some day they will need the saving grace of God. |