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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 wrote: "It would be entirely wrong to conclude that the Corinthians weren't baptized because of Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 1." I never claimed otherwise. You wrote: "What matters is Christ, being baptized into Christ." That matters, but is Paul placing the emphasis on baptism that you are? I would say that he is not. Baptism is assumed, but the heart of the gospel is not water baptism, but "Christ, and Him crucified." You wrote: "Why were you baptized, just curious?" I was baptized to be identified with Christ as a member of His covenant community. I also consider baptism to be a means of grace, through which the Holy Spirit works in order to set me apart as belonging to God. "This is an important question because no where does it say 'baptism is an outward sign of an inward grace that has already occured'." I never used these terms in my post. Why do you attribute them to me? I fully believe that baptism does SOMETHING. I disagree that we are justified by baptism. You wrote: "Nowhere does it say that baptism is intended to be a public testimony that you are a Christian." Verses like these convince me that baptism is a sign pointing to our identification with Christ: "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." --Galatians 3:27 "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." --1 Corinthians 12:13 --Joe! |