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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. |
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Bible Note: Dear Brother Steve, I understand what you are saying, and I do not take exception with it. However, lest we leave an improper impression with our readers: Christianity is all about knowledge, a deep kind of knowledge made efficacious through the work of the Holy Spirit. Consequently, every believer should be working hard to "master" the Scriptures. After all, God has taken great pains to ensure that they are made available to us. We should at least place as high a significance to the Word as does God. :-) Now, there is one thing I'd like to quibble over a bit. You wrote, "not everyone is a theologian." I disagree... I am strongly of the opinion that EVERYONE is a theologian. Theology asks a wide variety of questions that we all deal with: Who is God? What is He like? What has He said? Who are men? What is sin? Etc. Etc. Etc. All people have positions on these questions. The real issue is how much thought and study we've all put into answering these questions. One can categorize believers into five broad groupings: 1. Folk Theologians -- Majority of the a congregation 2. Lay Theologians -- A small percentage of a congregation 3. Ministerial Theologians -- Pastors and Teachers 4. Academic Theologians -- Teachers who teach pastors and teachers theology 5. Professional Theologians -- Theologians who make a living at it Folk theologians tend to just take what they hear and accept it without question. Lay theologians listen, read, study, and question on a very part-time basis. Ministerial theologians are pastors and teachers who study full-time in order to teach congregations. Academic theologians are professors at seminaries. Professional theologians make a living at theology and are on the cutting edge theological thought. Certainly God has not called everyone to be a pastor, a teacher, a professor, etc. However, I firmly believe that God wants the rest of believers to rise into category #2 (Colossians 1:9). Consequently, let us encourage everyone to persevere in their study. Crib notes have their place, but God wants us to know Him deeply, thoroughly, and intimately. In Him, Doc "Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same." --Jonathan Edwards (Resolution #28) |