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Salvation is a choice whether to trust and believe that Christ has “finished” the work to propitiate the Father. If we trust Him, not our works, we appropriate salvation.
Christ speaking to Nicodemus compared salvation to the look upon the brazen serpent in the wilderness. When we add to the work by requiring an aisle walk, a baptism, a repentance from overt sins, we subtract from His accomplishment.
It’s like requiring your daughter to pay fifty cents before she gets a gift at Christmas. It may not be much in comparison but it destroys the concept of grace.

[editor-surveyor]

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You need to re-read John 3.

This time believing every word of it.

Salvation only happens at the last trump.

Then re-read Revelation Revelation 20:13

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

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