Subject: Saved by belief or belief and baptism? |
Bible Note: I agree completely that true faith will result in works. But Paul is very clear in stating that it is the faith by which we are saved, and not the works. Christ's righteousness is credited to us not on the basis of us earning it or deserving it in the slightest (Romans 8:7-9 makes that pretty impossible), but on the basis of faith. Works are the evidence of our salvation, not the basis of it. That is true Christianity, standing firmly between legalism on one extreme and antinomianism on the other. Best way I can put it? We are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, but no works means no true faith. --Joe! |