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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: "It is amazing to me that more people don't take the facts you pointed out into consideration when intepreting Acts 2:38. Usually, someone simply says, "Acts 2:38 says we must repent and be baptized to be saved!" It is NOT amazing. What is amazing is that a few people persist in denying what Peter said. The world's scholarship confirms that baptism is essential for salvation. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, on the ordinance of baptism, vol. 1, p.424: "(3) a definite promise: salvation (Mk. 16:16), i.e.., complete and final deliverance from all evil, the securing of "the faith" (1 Pet.1:9). This is a comprehensive statement, as in 1 Peter 3:21, of the blessing of baptism. Scripture also states, in detail, particular baptismal blessings: (a) Regeneration (Tit. 3:5; Jn. 3:3,5). DESPITE CALVIN AND OTHERS, THE OVERWHELMING CONSENSUS OF INTERPRETERS STILL AGREES [caps added] with the ancient Church and with Luther in explaining both these texts of baptism. (b) Remission of sins, or justification (Acts 2:38; 22:16; 1 Cor. 6:11; Eph. 5:26; He. 10:22). This blessing, no doubt, is also intended in 1 Peter 3:21, where EPEROTEMA has been rendered "answer" by the AV (RV "interrogation"; RSV "appeal"). The word denotes a legal claim, which a person has a right to set up (see Rom. 8:1)." DID YOU READ THAT? It is not amazing that people persist in believing this, not amazing at all. It is amazing that you cannot SEE it. Here were stand on opposite sides of this issue. Obviously we cannot both be right. Perhaps we are both wrong. Or else one of us is right and the other wrong. You think I'm wrong because you think that a requirement of baptism for salvation would be an infringement on the sovereignty of God. Not so. It is God's sovereign will that requires a man believe, repent and be baptized. On the other side of that watery grave, a person of faith does not say, wow, I just worked my way to heaven, I just earned eternal life. Instead, he thanks God for the gift of eternal life. Salvation is a gift that is received when one is buried with Christ in Baptism. |