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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Excellent points!
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There are sincere people who think that "just believing" alone is enough to be saved, but if they would take scripture as a whole and not just pick out the verses that focus on the believing aspect they would see that believing is simply one of the necessary things leading towards salvation, which include believing, repentence, being born of water (baptism in Jesus name), being born of the Spirit (initially evidenced by tongues), and enduring to the end staying faithful to the truth.
There are too many verses people would have to ignore to think that just believing alone was enough.
There are those who think that correct doctrine is not important as long as you are sincere, but that is not Bible.
There are those who think that people will be saved if they never heard the gospel, but that is not Bible.
We are not trying to be exclusive, we want as many to be saved as possible, but the Bible is clear that there is more to being saved than just believing or just being sincere and we should not give anyone false hope of being saved if they have only believed the gospel but have not obeyed the gospel.