[kosta50]

My spelling ia horrible. Thanks for correcting me. I know I should have had that coffee first. :)

Baptism is not what saves you. Your faith in God is what saves you

Only God saves you. Baptism is a petition for adoption. We trust that those who are baptized can be saved because God hears our prayers. God does not compel. We also know that men can reject God and be lost, through ingratitude, even if they are baptized.

You, being Reformed, can never say that it is you who believes, but God who makes you believe.

[HarleyD]

My spelling ia horrible. Thanks for correcting me.

If I hadd a nicckell foor evarytimes I mad a grammatical errorr on tis sitee, I''''d be a weallthy man. ;O)

You, being Reformed, can never say that it is you who believes, but God who makes you believe.

I don't say it is God who makes me believe. The scriptures states it:

Joh 8:43-47 "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, ...He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."

Joh 6:37 "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out.

Joh 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

Joh 10:16 "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd.

Joh 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

To be perfectly honest, I could never understand the book of John until I became a Reformer.