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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: Who can Baptize you? Does it matter? |
Bible Note: CDBJ, Great questions. Please accept my apology for not thinking to fill out a personal profile when I joined the forum. Growing up with a manual typewriter, then moving up to an electric before buying a used 50 dollar computer (286 sounds right) with Geoworks word processing, and a dot what-sha-ma-call-it printer, a couple of years ago. Now, I've almost became used to using my new computer. It's a Dell, dude. And I finally figured out about the profile thing too. Thanks. As far as my definition of the word religion, I heartily agree with my worn-out 1914 issued New Modern English Illustrated Dictionary. "Any system of faith or worship; love and obedience towards God." As far as "today's" dictionaries definitions, forget it. Don't forget, Jesus never come down on people for following "their system of faith and worship and love and obedience towards GOD". Rather He embraced the "practice" of it Himself. The last supper was exactly that. Every Passover during Jesus' lifetime was also religiously observed. And His disciples didn't quit being "religious" after Jesus' cruel death on an ugly cross, and His powerful resurrection. They went to the temple daily to pray, etc. and God moved in their behalf according to their "system of faith and worship and love and obedience towards GOD". However, Jesus strongly came down on those who insisted people obey MAN and his laws and traditions. Today, many churches have that same problem. They practice their man-made traditions and they worship, love and obey a man. But, Praise God, many churches don't. They practice their system of faith and worship and love and obedience towards GOD. And, as always, God responds in their behalf. If it's because of faith, worship, love and obedience to God, (or in other words, "religious") when one prays, tithes, visits those sick or in prison, helps the needy, God receives all the glory and praise. As far as what translation of the Bible do I enjoy most? That's a little hard. In this room, I have a number of worn-out Bibles. An American Translation (yes, that's the version), New Berkeley Version, and the Jerusalem Bible, all of which offer great insight. I’m almost ashamed to say I have about 14 different versions, not counting the 8 different languages. Of course all of my volumes of aids are keyed to Strong’s so it's Hendrickson’s “The Interlinear Hebrew, Greek, English Bible” (with “A Literal Translation of the Bible”, that I usually turn to for help. The Hebrew, Greek sections have Strong’s numbers. Almost all my memorized sections are from the KJV, however. Thanks for asking, Taleb |