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Re: New Doctrine Emerges: NOT Forgiven at Repentan
Act 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
It seems to me that the obvious reconciliation of these scriptures IS that repentance, baptism and remission are intertwined. I think there is a misnomer here...and that is that "repentance", as we understand it, is even a step of salvation. "Repent[ance]" as it stands in Acts 2:38 or Luke 24:47 would be more akin to feeling conviction.
The fact that we have divided salvation up into steps is ridiculous to begin with.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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