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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: What must I do to be saved? |
Bible Note: Hi alanh, I appreciate your response, though I'd have to disagree in a number of areas. As noted by Kenneth Wuest, "The word "Spirit" is in the instrumental case in Greek- in 1 Cor. 12:13. Personal agency is expressed occasionally by the instrumental case. The personal agent in this case who does the baptizing is the Holy Spirit. He places or introduces the believing sinner into the Body of which the Lord Jesus is the living Head. The verb is in the past tense, referring to a past action, and is aorist, referring to a once-for-all act. The meaning of to place or introduce into gives us the purpose of the baptism by means of the Sprit, namely, the introduction of a believing sinner into the body of Christ." , Here is the key: As Wuest further states,"It is not the baptism with the Spirit or of the Spirit, in the sense that the Holy Spirit is the element which is applied to us. It is the baptism by the Spirit. This baptism does not bring the Spirit to us in the sense that God places the Spirit upon or in us. Rather, this baptism brings the believer into vital union with Jesus Christ. It is the baptism with the Spirit in the sense that God the Father does the baptizing through His personal agent, the Holy Spirit." The "following logic" of your view of 1 Cor. 12:13 completely befuddles me. You're ignoring the plain meaning of the words, my freind. (I've heard this exact same logic from another poster, previously) How does, "...by one Spirit..." mean anything other than just that? Yours is a stretch to say the least. This is in the aorist tense, passive voice.This basically means it refers to a past(aorist) action(once for all), where the subject(passive) is acted upon by an outside force. The question then becomes, what is the outside force? It is interesting to note that Rom.6:3 ,Gal. 3:27, and Col.2:12 are also aorist tense, passive voice: Romans 6:3 "Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?" Galatians 3:27 "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." Colossians 2:12 "having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead." The action of 1 Cor.12:13 is clear. So is Acts 1:5: “ for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” John baptized with WATER, but you WILL BE BAPTIZED with the Holy Spirit! What could be more evident? The tense in this verse is Future, the voice passive! In both these examples delineating the difference between water baptism and Spirit baptism the passive voice is used. This denotes the action being performed upon the subject by an outside force. In this case, the Holy Spirit. I offer two observations: 1. The context of Galatians 3 seems to support Spirit baptism based upon verses 2 and 3 "This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?" "Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?" To jump to any other conclusion does not appear warranted by the immediate text.The only reference to baptism is 3:27. Though there is obvious disagreement between scholars on this issue, "what saith the scripture?"[Rom. 4:3] We have a similar contextual concern in looking at Col. 2:12 based upon the prior verse,11. "and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;" “Without hands” is an expression always emphasizing the absence of all human instrumentality and the act of God alone.(cf. 2 Cor. 5:1,Heb. 9:11) Interestingly, again we have the aorist tense and passive voice! This “circumcision” is clearly a sovereign act done by God and the flow of thought is continued into vs. 12. Thanks for the dialog. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |