Love One Another and the Cross

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Shazeep, please please consider this as well, that you are overlooking something. Maybe ritualized Acts 2:38'ers turned you off. Not sure. But there is no salvation by works, which is the case if "love one another " does not follow salvation but instead causes it. There is simply no salvation by works, no matter how much you love. Just because some have ritualized Acts 2:38 does not mean it is not the beginning in the real sense it's meant to be. Just because people say it's the plan of salvation, doesn't mean they ritualize it. But again there is no way that salvation by works is possible and no one can be saved outside the work of the cross.

Acts 2:38 is the way to apply the cross to our lives, but not ritualistically. Ritualism does nothing. So when someone says Acts 2:38's the plan, it does not mean they are bypassing the application of the cross in a genuine heart experience of faith and real, living self-denial.

You simply don't seem to give a person the chance to talk about it, since you seemingly cut someone off as soon as they say things like muslims are lost,. But if the cross is the only means to God, as Jesus and the apostles said it was, then there is no salvation aside from the cross, and that is not a judgment call either. It's stating facts without prejudice.

Acts 2:38 takes the death of Christ, only when a true heart of faith gets the concept of the need for salvation, and baptizes someone into that death. And when they come to God as one who is alive from the dead, as Ro 6:13 states we should, God sees the genuine faith in a person who obviously knows they died in Christ, freeing them from the old man, fully believing that self could do nothing more than die, due to our depravity in sin. And that faith that we died is also aware that we arose with Christ. And when God sees that faith, He moves upon the person and empowers them supernaturally. I've experienced it.


But again, love one another, without the cross first, is salvation by works. And I hope you realize salvaiton by works is impossible.