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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: when is someone saved? |
Bible Note: I haven't heard from Hank at all. I myself have been busy finishing up my requirements for my master's degree (finished up last Wednesday), so I had to take a holiday from the Forum. Nice to be missed, though! I know that no one gets along with a Calvinist buta Calvinist! :) By the way, the Catholic Encyclopedia puts the idea of Final Perseverance this way: "Canon 22 (Si quis dixerit justificatum vel sine speciali auxilio Dei in accepta justitia perseverare posse, vel cum eo non posse, anathema sit), by teaching that the justified cannot persevere without a special help of God, but with it can persevere, not only condemns both the naturalism of the Semipelagians and the false supernaturalism of the Reformers but also clearly implies that the power of perseverance is neither in the human will alone nor in God's grace solely, but in the combination of both, i.e., Divine grace aiding human will, and human will co-operating with Divine grace." So where Catholicism differs from my view (and that of other "false supernaturalists" -- whatever that is supposed to mean) is the whole necessity of man's cooperation in this persevering act. Catholic perseverance hinges on human beings, at least in part; whereas Classical Protestantism, while it holds that the ones who will be in heaven are those who persevere, see God's grace as something that does not require our cooperation to get its job done. Repentance, faith, and perseverance, although something we experience and actively assent to, are things granted by God to His people. He makes it happen in Christians. Sola gratia! --Joe! |