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Originally Posted by jfrog
I'm only arguing that Cornelius was saved before he was baptized. Nothing more, nothing less. Romans 8 says he was. Do you have an explanation as to how these things can be or are you simply going to try and redirect to the verses you feel more comfortable with?
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Not at all, I just believe that we must go by what all the verses that relate to salvation says is required, some verses just focus on the faith aspect, others focus on the necessity of repentence, ect., but just because any particular verse only focuses on one aspect does not negate the necessity of what the other verses says are also a must.
("Pressing On" made a good point also in what they said also)
Also please consider that the Bible says we must
"obey" the gospel, (gospel = death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ) and water baptism is how we obey the burial part of the gospel -
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism....