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NASB | 1 Peter 3:21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 3:21 Corresponding to that [rescue through the flood], baptism [which is an expression of a believer's new life in Christ] now saves you, not by removing dirt from the body, but by an appeal to God for a good (clear) conscience, [demonstrating what you believe to be yours] through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, |
Subject: How Does Baptism Save? |
Bible Note: Dear Joe, I think your tag name should be 'slippery when wet.' :) No where did I say that Abraham had faith in Jesus Christ! If we are going to come to the same conclusion you must be able to accept what I say without changing it. Romans 1 says that men ought to know there is a God. This knowledge ought to lead them to hunger and thirst for righteousness. If you are Abraham and God says to you, "Abraham, Leave the land of your fathers!" You go. That's the faith that saves. "Awareness of truth is not faith in the truth." There you go again. I didn't say it. The devils are aware of the truth! It's going to be easier if you just deal with what I say. Romans 4:5 says, "Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due." Paul can't be contradicting James. It is the "faith only" [which is contrary to James 2:14-26] who don't know how to harmonize these passages with Paul: this same difficulty led Luther to call James an 'epistle of straw.' I've heard that Luther's German translation inserted the word 'alone' in Romans 3:28 and 5:1. Followers of this tradition still read it that way - despite or in spite of the actual text :) Ps 106:30 "Then Phinehas stood up and interposed, And so the plague was stayed. 31 And it was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations forever." Gen 15:6 "Then he [Abraham] believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness." See any similarity? Probably not :) Since this is when God credited righteousness to Abraham, why do you deny that works are considered in conjunction with faith? Before he is credited as righteous, it says, "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:" (Hebrews 11:8-9 KJV) It is you who can't seem to harmonize Paul and James. I have no trouble dealing with Romans 4:5. Abraham believed and obeyed God. Abraham trusted not in his works, but in the God. God saw Abraham's faith and credited it as righteousness. Nice chatting with you, Disciplerami |