[CynicalBear]

So you basically think Paul and Silas were lying to the jailer? Or perhaps they just didn’t want to give him the whole story for having kept them in jail?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Putting false words in my mouth is abusive and absurd. I didn't say that AT ALL. Please stop putting your words in my mouth.

The Scripture quote is this: "“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved - and your household” - Acts 16:31

All I asked --- sincerely, and courteously --is that you share what you understand by the phrase "and your household."

And let's try to aim for a more loving tone in these exchanges. That would exclude what you just did to me.

[Mark17]

So you basically think Paul and Silas were lying to the jailer? Or perhaps they just didn’t want to give him the whole story for having kept them in jail?

Let me try. When I was a catholic, I was told that salvation was by faith alone, by evangelicals. I don't know why I didn't like that. Maybe it was my human pride, telling me that it couldn't possibly be that simple. I thought I had to add my good works to it, and jump through all sorts of hoops, then maybe I might qualify for purgatory, but then again, maybe not. After awhile, I figured out what they were telling me was true. It really IS by faith alone, and it really IS that simple. If people can't see it, that's on them. It is simple.