Subject: Saved by belief or belief and baptism? |
Bible Note: Mark, Thank you for your kind comments. I hope you won't retract them when I make this next point. You wrote: "I consider that salvation comes, on my part at least, through an act of will rather than an act of behavior. I believe that I become born again when I choose to repent, and to obey Christ." But the Bible says: "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:12-13 and Jesus taught us to pray "Thy kingdom come and HE prayed in the Garden of Gethsmene: "not my will but your will" (Matthew 26:39). It is only when our will is aligned with the Father's will that anything we do is in Christ and that alignment of will itself comes by the grace of God, though we co-operate with that grace in accepting it. Emmaus |