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Originally Posted by stmatthew
I can wholeheartedly agree with you that it is a process. It don't stop with Belief. It don't stop with Repentance. It don't stop with Water Baptism. It don't stop with Spirit Baptism. And it don't even stop with Holiness living. It is a continual growth, and just like anything living thing, the moment growth is stopped, it usually indicates a death has occurred.
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Praise be to God! (And kudos to TrulyBlessed)
We're starting to walk on merger ground here.
I, being what this forum would call PCI, would say that a man is as saved when he repents from dead works and places his faith in the Living God as he will ever be this side of Glory,
if he continues . . .
A PAJCer like StMatthew would say that a man is as saved as he will ever be this side of Glory after he completes
Acts 2:38,
if he continues . . .
StMatthew isn't saying that a life of holiness is not essential, and I'm not saying that baptism is optional; we are both expecting the same obedience from converts, and our difference is not found in how to be saved, but rather at what point salvation begins.
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