[rrford]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

CS.. .... seriously ....do you think there weren't new unsaved people sitting in these churches that Paul wrote to .... don't you think he knew this also ..... that some of the listeners were not saved ....

... perhaps it is paradigm you have for a long time that you need to examine

The general idea among PAJC OP's is that the New Testament is divided into three sections which are called: Gospels, Acts, and Epistles.

See link below for a depiction of this:

http://home.att.net/~jrd/gospelsactsepistles.gif

We were taught in a UPC Bible School, or by Search For Truth, that salvation is not found in the epistles, only in the Book of Acts. We were taught that the epistles were written to folks who were already saved so there was nothing in them that told how a person could be saved.

While I do basically agree with the way the NT is divided in that chart I do not believe that there is nothing in the epistles that references how folks were saved or how folks could get saved. This would be like saying that a preacher would not preach about salvation or refer to how folks got saved when he was preaching to the church --that he would only address something like that if he was speaking to unsaved folks. Or it would be like saying that when those epistles were read in congregations there would be no unsaved folks there to hear them. Yes, there are references in the epistles of how folks got saved and how to be saved.

A few could be Romans 10: 9-13; 1 Cor 6: 9-11; Gal 3: 26-29; Eph 1: 13-14; 2:1-10; 1 Thess 1: 4-10;1 Peter 1;18-23; 1 John 5: 1, 4-5, 13 etc. etc.

Really? Which UPCI Bible School did you attend? If they are teaching that then I want to make sure my daughter DOES NOT go there.