Bible Question:
Are we saved by grace or by baptism? If by grace must we be baptized for salvation? TJA |
Bible Answer: Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. In the above verse being saved is a gift. If a gift then you can't buy it. The price to obtain that gift for you individually has already been made when Jesus bled and died for you. The only thing you can do is receive the gift by faith. Water baptism is for the person of faith - for those who already have been saved. Water baptism is a rite of sacrament, an external outward washing. It's the outward testimony of the inward reality of salvation present. Salavtion is a free gift. We don't get water baptized to become saved, we get baptized because we have been saved. |