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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: Where was the church? Historically, I don't know where the Christians were. I suppose YOU can 'historically' point to the church of Jesus Christ. Do YOU find the 'historical' church in the words of the post-nicene fathers? If so, you must think the reformers were just a lot of troublemakers. Perhaps the true Christians were driven underground-figuratively speaking. Remember how, later on, the 'historical' church had fits when common people wanted to read the Bible? Some of those people were called heretics because they made the Bible available to other common people. The 'historical' church burned some of those people and made people afraid to speak out against the Pope. The inquisitors confiscated property of heretics who didn't believe like the Pope and.... Anyway, that's the only 'historical' church. Suffice to say, I know where the true church was not. I still believe 'the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.' That doesn't stop Satan from trying. Maybe it's coincidental, but Paul did speak of an apostasy (2 Thess 2). If you think the Holy Roman Church is the church of the Bible, I think you are mistaken. Going along with the apostasy was warning that God would send a deluding influence upon those "who did not receive a love for the truth" (2 Thess 2). It is a "mortal sin" to "add to or take away from" God's Word. With the help of Constantine, the written history of "the church" gives a picture of something quite different than that church we find in the Bible. Perhaps we can correspond again. Good day. |