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“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” My dear Christian friend, because God put that promise in your Bible, I believe there is only one reason that a member of your house will perish in Hell. You yourself will have to fail that beloved family member in order for them to perish. You do not want that to happen. You do not want to find yourself standing near them with their blood on your hands when they stand before the Great White Throne Judgment condemned to Hell. How tragic it would be to have them look upon you and your bloody hands and sob to you in their hopelessness, “You failed me. You did not believe God’s promise to save your house. As a Christian, you lived in pleasure instead of entering into the toil and travail with Christ to see your family brought safely into the Ark of Salvation. I hope you enjoy eternity in Heaven while I am tormented in flames forever.” You do not want to experience that. Whatever you do in this life, believe on and act upon this wonderful promise. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
“Pass the time of your sojourning here with fear”

(just something I read, which has given me cause to pause, think, and consider)

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Do you don't believe that everybody is responsible for their own sin?

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We are responsible to hold God to His promises in prayer for the souls of our loved ones.

Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 3:17-19 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Isaiah 62:6 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

Ezekiel 33:6 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take [any] person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

Ezekiel 33:1-33

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It doesn't matter what my opinion is. It only matters what God says.

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I see it this way, to believe in someone is to put absolute trust in them. If one believes on the Lord they will indeed be saved. Why? Because they will obey His Gospel. That includes repentance, water baptism, and living a holy life.

If one believes in Dr. Agatston they will lose weight. Why? They will follow Dr. Agatston's, South Beach Diet.

It's pretty simple, really.

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Maybe I'm off but I've always read that verse to be indicating that the promise of Salvation by believing on Jesus Christ was available to the head of the house as well as all the people in his house (including his servants).

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Was the statement "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house" a universal promise given to all believers everywhere? Or was it a specific, prophetic promise to one man, in that, God was showing Paul that if this one man submitted himself to the Gospel, in His infinite foreknowledge, God knew everyone else in his "house" would follow suit?

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I think it was a specific promise to one man, but I believe all the promises of God are yes and amen, because He is not a respecter of persons.

2 Corinthians 1:20..For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

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So you're saying that if the head of household gets saved their children WILL be saved?

Do you know of any families where the parents got the HolyGhost and the kids never did?

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I'm taking it as a promise to see my household saved.