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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: Brian, I agree that the revelation of the mysteries of God is an continually unfolding of His truth. If one has been a christian for any length of time at all, he has experieced the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit overturning carnal ideas with spiritual. This does not mean we will ever (even in eternity) be able to fully comprehend God. There is much that is "passed finding out". The problem with your reasoning is that it places the cause of regeneration as a result of the will of man. John 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. God does not save good people; He saves sinners. Sinners are wicked and have carnal minds and hearts of stone. Read the passages that deal with fallen man. Eph 2:12 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. You believe that I err in my understanding od "predestined" from EPH 1:11 "In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will." You claim: "It is God's predestined will that all men have the chance of salvation in Jesus Christ, His Son." Like a good Berean, I must ask you for your evidence from Scripture. John |