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To: MHGinTN
"By faith," OK?

Any true Scriptural list showing "how we are saved" must be understood to add up to this one point: being incorporated into Christ.

If by "faith" you mean you are "incorporated into Christ," --- then there, you've got it.

How Scripture proclaims we are saved:

By believing in Jesus Christ (Jn 3:16; Acts 16:31)
By repentance (Acts 2:38; 2 Pet 3:9)
By baptism (Jn 3:5; 1 Pet 3:21; Titus 3:5)
By eating His flesh and drinking His blood (Jn 6)
By the work of the Spirit (Jn 3:5; 2 Cor 3:6)
By declaring with our mouths (Lk 12:8; Rom 10:9)
By coming to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4; Heb 10:26)
By works (Rom 2:6-7; James 2:24)
By grace (Acts 15:11; Eph 2:8)
By His blood (Rom 5:9; Heb 9:22)
By His righteousness (Rom 5:17; 2 Pet 1:1)
By keeping the commandments (Matt 19:17)
By childbearing (1 Tim 2:15)
By our words (Matt 12:37)
By compassion toward the needy (John 10:25-37; Matthew 25:31-46)
By enduring to the end (Matt.24:13)

This is all Scripture, and...

"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness." 2 Timothy 3:16

If you want to find one word which comprises all of these items, and call that word "faith," that's fine: not a dead faith, as St. James says, but a 'living' one.

Which is to say, being incorporated into Christ. That's what Paul says in Galatians 3:23-29. Faith: Baptized in Christ - "immersed" in Christ - clothed with Christ - one in Christ - "Heirs according to the promise."

189 posted on 07/02/2015 11:43:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Faith with love is the faith of Christians. Without love, it is the faith of demons. -Venerable Bede)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

So, do you want to add to or subtract from the list?


190 posted on 07/02/2015 11:46:03 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

The scriptures you post from I wouldn’t even guess what website, are not relevant tot he list. One example is the Romans 2 reference you posted. Look in context and for what focus Paul wrote that passage and it is immediately obvious the verses are not focused upon the Gospel for Salvation. Please, let’s be honest and not try to blur this serious focus into absurdity.


191 posted on 07/02/2015 12:05:37 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
How Scripture proclaims we are saved:

 
 
 
 

 
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.


John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?
 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."


1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.


James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
 

 
 
 

319 posted on 07/03/2015 4:41:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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