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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: Isn't Baptism neccessary for salvation?? |
Bible Note: You ask 'is this clear?' No. But what an interesting paraphrase! And Acts 22:16 says, "Now why do you [singular] delay, arise [singular] and be baptized [singular], and wash away [singular] thy sins [plural], calling [singular] on his name [singular, I'm not sure of the point of all this grammar stuff, but it makes as much sense as your use of it]." It would be interesting to see the Tim Moran paraphrase of Acts 22:16. Seriously, you can do better than this: "If you repent (protasis), and since you have repented be baptized (apodosis), you will receive forgiveness of sins" (Loose paraphrase). Let me see if I have this right. The crowd was pricked in the heart and asked what to do. The apostles responded, "Repent for the forgiveness of sins, and because you have already repented, therefore you will be already saved because salvation is based on repentance alone. Now everyone go get baptized for no particular reason" [my paraphrase of your paraphrase] Am I getting the gist of it? Your explanation seems to be lacking a certain something. Your explanation is intended to take people's attention off of baptism, right? But Acts 2 says that 3,000 were baptized because they understoood Peter to say, "Repent ye, and let each of you be baptized,...for forgiveness of sins." But you say they didn't need to, right? By the way, you got one part right. The word "for" is from the greek EIS which is always prospective. Grammatically, 'forgiveness' would follow repentance. What you didn't get right is that repentance is made visible in an obedient faith seen in baptism. Frankly, I find the one about the thief on the cross to be a much better explanation for not being baptized [even though Jesus wouldn't utter a word about it until after the resurrection, Mt. 28:18-20]. Water doesn't save, works don't save, faith alone doesn't save, the preacher doesn't save, but I'll tell you what does: an obedient faith (Romans 1:5; 16:26) that gets in the water and trust in the atonement of Jesus Christ. Salvation is a gift that is received at a particular point in time. You say at the point of repentance, others say at the point of 'faith only', Peter says at Baptism (1 Peter 3:21), others say when you get sprinkled as a little bitty baby. Whose right? Something tells me you're not a translator for the Lockman Foundation [I learned that such sarcasm is acceptable after reading a number of post by the moderator]. Nothing personal. |