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Bible Note: Hi you claim that you received salvation at baptism. It is clearly a different salvation than the one PAUL speaks of, for he said, 'Christ did not send me to baptise but to preach the Gospel' (1 Corinthians 1.17). I thank God that I did not baptise anyone except --' (1 Corinthians 1.14). Then He goes on to point out that it is the word of the cross that is the power of God unto salvation. John 3.5 does not mention baptism. That is simply an inference. The reference to water rather has in mind the picture of the coming of the Holy Spirit as rain in Isaiah 32.15; 44.1-4. How can you be assured of eternal life if you can lose it? Eternal life in in fact received by hearing Jesus Christ and truly believing in God through Him (John 5.24). All who have truly received Christ have eternal life (1 John 5.13). Matthew 19.16-17 was spoken to a young man who did not have eternal life and refers to the attitude of heart that he must have in order to enter into it by following Christ. You might better have quoted Matthew 22.34-38. But if that is a requirement for salvation it leaves us all without hope. It is rather an indicating of what the saved should be aiming at. You rightly point out that salvation can be applied in different tenses. But one does not invalidate the other. If I have been saved from stormy seas and am in the lifeboat I have been saved, I am being saved (it has not yet reached the shore), I will be saved (when it reaches harbour). But it does not make my salvation less secure. Notice that it speaks of 'having been saved'. That indicates that the saving is carried out by Someone else, the Saviour. Now a life boat might sink, but the Saviour cannot sink. And if the Saviour has saved me (the aorist indicates once for all) then nothing can prevent that salvation. It is not dependent on me but on the Saviour. Of course the process of salvation goes on and must be revealed in a changed life, but that is the result of my having been saved, not a condition of it. True I have to 'work out' my salvation with greatest care, but in that I am responding to the fact that God is at work in me to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2.12-13). HIS WORK of salvation is proceeding according to plan. Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure. The Lord knows those who are His. And my being confirmed to the end depends solely on the faithfulness of God (1 Corinthians 1.8-9), He is the One Who saves to the uttermost because it is through His intercession not my weak struggling (Hebrews 7.25). He Who has begun a good work in me will bring it to completion in the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 2.6). Jesus Christ is my Saviour not my crutch. Best wishes jonp |