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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: You know what EdB. I agree with you completely, even the part of salvation. If you have been following this thread, then you know that I believe the 'point in time' at which a person is saved is when he is immersed into Christ. I DO NOT believe in 'works' salvation, I do not believe there is any power in the water, I do not believe the person baptizing has any special power: this is why I reject the idea of baptizing infants, because they have no faith of their own. The grace of God is what saves, and he saves us through our faith. The faithless are lost. This is why there must be free will to choose salvation. Otherwise it makes God the sole determiner or who is saved. Those he gives faith to will be saved and those He doesn't give faith to will be damned. According to what JohntheReformer has been saying, the damned have been damned since birth and they stay that way by no choice of their own. According to Calvin, they inherited sin and they go to their grave with it because God did not 'elect' them. I believe in the doctrine of Election, but not in the way it is explained here on this forum page. Actually, God elected that all who would respond to the Gospel, will be saved. God is no respector of persons, He desires all men be saved, so loved the world to give all the opportunity, and his Son tasted death for (Heb.2:9). As it says in 1 John, "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world." - 1 Jn. 2:2 Among the greatest of gifts we have from God is the power to choose: it makes love and faith so much more meaningful, don't you know. Anyone who talks about Calvinist election, no choice of my own type salvation, and then talks about the love of God that overlooks the 'many' going to destruction is just blowing smoke. That ain't love. My God is a God of love. He truly wants all to be saved, His fairness makes Him provide and extend it to all through the Gospel, but His righteousness forbids Him from forcing anyone to take it. All of these verses that are quoted by John with the intended effect that we are conceived with the sin of another, are actually only talking about the state of an adult sinner. The word "nature" in Ephesians 2:3 is also used in Romans 2:15 of Gentiles, who BY NATURE did the things of the Law. Our nature is not to do evil, our nature is to make choices. We do have the same nature as Adam, who being made perfect, chose to disobey God. We have that same nature, and when we sin as Adam, then death spreads to us. Good day. |