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How has that been established? Not through Scripture! Rom 10:13-14, 17 "for “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”...

It is not the baptism that saves, any more than it is the rope that kills when a man is hung by a court/king/law. It is the order of the...

Baptism and the Lord's Supper are not sacraments. A sacrament is "a religious ceremony or ritual regarded as imparting divine grace"...

LOL, as Peter says in 1 Pet 3:21, it is not a bath to remove dirt from the body. It is an appeal to God to receive a clean conscience...

Those are examples of faith in those people in those times. Today, we have the commands in Scripture to tell us what actions we must...

Dan, we have been through this before. When we are baptized into Christ, we are united with Jesus' death to sin, so we die to sin also...

There is absolutely nothing any person can do to clear the debt of sin anyone has, this is true. But it is equally true that if you do...

Do you really trust in God if all you do is "believe" (have intellectual assent) in Jesus and the Gospel of His salvation? James says...

I see the conflict you are pointing out between this passage and James 5:19-20. "My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays...

Your conclusions are not entirely accurate. We know that God knows everything and everyone. But then He tells us that there will be some...

It is indeed.

I would say that is one possible explanation of why some do and some don't seek God. There may be other reasons that I cannot articulate...

I would say that it is the exact opposite of "moral superiority" or "intellectual superiority". By this, I mean an acknowledgement of...

You have some very bad theology going on here. Just accepting that Jesus is God, and that He lived, died, and was resurrected to save...

So you are saying that all one must do is have intellectual assent (accept it as true)? Just believe that Jesus lived, died, and was...