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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: God’s protocol for man’s salvation has remained constant from the time man stepped outside of God’s plan in the garden until this very day. All of the Old Testament believers had to have faith in God’s perfect sacrifice the same way that we do today; they looked forward to it and we look back. That perfect sacrifice was God’s solution for us and it centers on His Son Jesus Christ. That is why we have, John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. There was no water baptism mentioned! Hebrews chapter 11 is dedicated for the purpose of expounding on the essence of faith. The only thing that any human has to have in order to be saved is the ability to think i.e. to reason. Once they come to this point then they are accountable for their decisions; no water necessary. Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. The plan of God for man is total trust in the work of God’s Christ. Anything that we can do, other then use our minds to consider it, by relying on God and what he did for us through Jesus, nullifies faith. It is not faith plus anything, no mater what the postulate might be. The essence of faith eliminates everything that might be hanging on the fringe other wise faith isn’t faith. The word faith and or believe, as it was originally used, is a transitive verb example, John 3:16. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. What a transitive verb does is to place all the emphasis on the object of the verb; the verb, believe in the English is the Koine Greek verb PISTEUO. Faith or believe is no better then the object of the faith. Whenever anyone adds something besides faith to the object, Jesus, for salvation, like water baptism, it negates the action of the verbs object and nullifies the results. Faith demands singleness of thought on the object that God designates i.e. his perfect Son. God is not impressed with anything that we do physically he is only impressed with what his Son did. Water baptism in conjunction with faith for salvation is like sitting in a jet going 600 mph and you decide that you want to help so you try to get outside so you can help by pushing. The worst part is the results are going to be the same! God doesn’t need our help to save us he just wants us to trust him! In essence those the are depending on something they do, water baptism, along with what Jesus did, are not fully trusting in the finished work of Christ and accordingly they aren’t saved, by faith only as the definition demands. A person could be welded into a steel box in the middle of the desert and as long as they are still cognizant of God’s plan of salvation they could be saved even if it were the last thing they did; now that is by grace through faith, no access to water! John 20:30-31 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: [31] But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Now if people what to add water baptism to what John knew to be truth, according to these last two verses, they are going to have a real shock when they take their last breath. I hope they get with God’s program before it’s too late. There are numerous passages mentioning baptism in conjunction with the verb Pisteuo or it cognate. Those that are putting their salvation on the line with these passages of Scripture better learn what it means to reduce something down to it’s common denominator as in a parenthetical phrase. Have a nice day, CDBJ |