Subject: salvation/baptism |
Bible Note: Hello The righteous will live by faith. You are confusing salvation and our walk with the Lord. Salvation is by faith. We cannot do anything to gain salvation except believe. Believe; stop relying on anything apart from Christ for salvation … did He not do enough? Be baptized as part of your walk with the Lord, this symbolizes what happens at the rebirth, it is not part of the rebirth. You are trapped in legalism. A man who gives his life on his deathbed, a man who gives his life in a desert region, a man who gives his life to Jesus and then dies in an accident on the way to being baptized … these people not saved? Matthew 23:12-14 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.” I pray that God reveals the truth to you. I fear that you are teaching this to others and keeping them from salvation. Boast in nothing but the cross of Jesus. Yours in Christ, Justin |