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Originally Posted by GrowingPains
Does a man have to repent to be saved? Confess Christ? Interested in your answer.
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Paul held back nothing preaching repentance and faith. The repentant heart must return to God via faith in the finished work of Christ on the Cross. Those who externally confess Christ are to be accepted into the Church as being saved. It was upon the rock of a confession of Christ that the Church was to be built. This verbal confession historically took place at the baptismal event.
Baptism, being the eperotema (the answer) of a good conscience toward God, declared the purged conscience of the person being baptized. Only those whose hearts had come to rest in the historic sin remission of the Cross were to be baptized picturing their personal resurrection to new life.
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