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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: I couldn't have said it better! You wrote: "If I am saved because of something I do as an unregenerate man (accept Christ), or am lost because of something I do (reject Christ) then the inescapable conclusion must be that I am saved or lost as a result of what I will!" Exactly right, you have to 'accept' Christ in order to be saved. God doesn't demand 'acceptance of the Gospel' as a requirement for salvation and then make it impossible for man to do it. Believing the Gospel is the same as believing the truth. It is not outside of the common mind to believe the truth. Each man has the responsibility to do it. And salvation is offered to all. Do you mean to say that YOU don't have to 'accept Christ' to be saved? Jn 1:12 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:" To those who 'receive' Christ, they have the right or power to become sons of God. To those who do not 'receive' or 'accept', they do not have this right. I don't think you understand this verse: "1CO 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." A lost man can spiritually discern and a Christian can look at things in a carnal way. We all have a choice to 'set out minds on the things of the flesh' or the 'spirit.' When a man, any man, looks at things honestly, he can discern the spiritual even in the Creation (Romans 1). If he denies the truth of God's existence, and suppresses the truth in unrighteousness, then he is without excuse and the wrath of God is stored up against him. |