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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
No one is asking you to remove it ... Mizpeh ... it's there but baptism does not cause remission ...
You have made the same cardinal sin of equating the gospel ... to the response to the gospel .... w/ your words ...
Interestingly you mention Matthew 1:4 ... Jesus own words .... asking them to believe .... YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH, BURIAL AND RESURRECTION ... of which you feel must be re-enacted to attain salvation he ... God is Salvation .... Jesus. ... provided ...
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Does only believing the gospel save us or does believing the gospel and obeying the gospel save us?
Does this passage of scripture from
Romans 4 support what you believe saves us?
3 For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."
4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom
God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 "BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
8 "BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT."
Is the righteousness that God credits us when we have faith in Christ's atonement mean that our sins are forgiven and covered and will not be accounted for at the judgement?