Coming to FR and discussing religion (especially True Christianity) is like having to swim in raw sewage sometimes.
So many folks are strung up on cults, and works-based theology. Others insist you must be “baptized” (the right way) to be saved.
If we work for our salvation, and must do something to attain it, we can also do something to lose it. Being sealed with the Holy Spirit is eternal. It’s not until the “next time I sin”.
Romans 10:9-10
John 6:29
Romans 4:5-6
Romans 3:22
Acts 16:31
Mark 16:16
John 3:36
John 11:25
John 14:6
**So many folks are strung up on cults, and works-based theology. Others insist you must be “baptized†(the right way) to be saved.**
So many folks are strung up not doing works:
Like the Pharisees that went bonkers when Jesus healed and raised the dead on a day you weren’t suppose to work.
When the rich young ruler asks the Lord what he needed to do receive eternal life, Jesus gave him the Law checklist. The young man replied that he had kept the Law. Then the Lord told to go and sell all that he had, and distribute it to the poor, and come and follow Him.
If the fellow had walked off to go and sell his riches, would your ‘no works’ predecessors have headed him off at the pass to tell him that would be doing works for salvation?
Yet the Lord and his disciples commanded baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.
Quoting or referencing scriptures that have the word ‘believe’ in them do not necessarily go into the details of rebirth. I recommend that you do not skip those that DO.
Once again, the epistles were written to souls that already were born again, or at least knew how. The first few verses in most of them make that clear. Hebrews requires further reading, but gets there.
Once again, Acts 16:31 is followed by 32, where the word of the Lord is taught to the jailer and his household. 33 mentions that they all get baptized.
Acts 2:38.....do you believe it?
**like having to swim in raw sewage sometimes.**
A literal comparison? You’ve actually done that?