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Originally Posted by Timmy
Isn't your salvation a result of the works of others? Someone told you about the Gospel. That's a work. Without it, you would not have been saved. Right?
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Wrong. The efforts of anyone, including me in my baptism, are not actions that directly make me righteous. Saying someone preached to me so that I could be saved, and that without such a person I would not be saved, is not salvation by works that render us righteous in and of themselves. Everyone here is missing the point that salvation by works means works in and of themselves renders us righteous.
This was the all-erring problem of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Acquire a knowledge of what is good and what is evil and utilize that knowledge to make yourself righteous.
Folks, do a study on righteousness and how it is acquired, and realize that salvation by works is directly contradictory to the truth of how we become righteous. Action is fine so long as it does not propose to make us righteous in and of itself. Until people learn that, they will never get the truth of the picture. It seems people against baptism as part of salvation simply refuse to deal with that all-important and all-determining issue, and they miss it everytime we speak of it.
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