You guys are having way too much fun ... can I join ?????
I love the jump through hoops Gospel ... some espouse. Let's make it virtually impossible to be saved and if you think you are then there's got be something you're hiding or not doing ...
Can someone be saved outside of obeying ???
Ephesians 6:4
4Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
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Matthew 7:1, "Judge not that ye be not judged."
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James 2
8If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself,"[a] you are doing right. 9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. 10For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. 11For he who said, "Do not commit adultery,"[b] also said, "Do not murder."[c] If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, 13because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment!
Faith and Deeds
14What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? 17In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
Is not all of God's Word necessary for our salvation??
A great Apostolic once said:
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I have a little problem with more faith being put in a specific verse that in the Saviour who's life inspired the need for the verse.
Reciting Acts 2:38 is not a magical incantation that removes all sin.
Acts 2:38 is NOT the gospel message.
Acts 2:38 is not THE saving message.
The saving message is laced throughout the synoptic gospels.
It is the message of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
What HE did is what saves the world. Acts 2:38 is merely the proper response to his saving action.
It is fitting, and proper, that we place due prominence on the Saviour.
WHEN this happens, in the heart of every new believer, love for the God of the Gospel message will cause a truly repentant sinner to be baptized in Jesus' name. Subsequently, the promise of the Holy Ghost awaits every new believer.
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