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NASB | Romans 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:3 Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? |
Subject: Do you have to be baptized to be saved? |
Bible Note: Tim, Paul speaks of "the obedience of faith" which would inidcate that obedience is a component of faith and that faith without obedience(James calls it "works") is not real faith and is therefore "dead." Paul and James are both speaking of Abraham's faith. Paul and James both indicate that saving, obedient faith is a gift of grace and therefore not something we can do of ourselves without grace, so we have nothing to brag about. Paul's major point about "works" is that we can not place God in a position where He is obligated to save us because of any "works" we may do without His grace. Saving, obedient faith flows from God love and grace, God's grace and love does not flow from our "works" without His grace. So the "faith that works in love" (Gal 5:6)does save because it is God's grace working in and through us and not something of our own that we can do without God's grace. Emmaus |