Romans 10:13
King James Version
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Does this mean that everyone who has ever called upon the name of Jesus will be saved?
I say
Some have given you good answers here -LeeLoving ----and some have not in my view --------
People need to read the Chapter and find out what the Context really is ----some are all trying to solve one piece of Scripture with your own thoughts and interpretation when if you read the Context ----if your Born Again it all really makes Sense ---what Romans 10:13 is saying -----and it really explains itself in the next few verses -----verses 14--15--17
Scripture will always answer Scripture ----you just have read it in Context ------
Roman 10 Exp B -----this is verse 14 --15-!7
Very important first sentence here -below -----it says -------before you call on the Lord you have to believe who He is -----and before you believe you have to hear about Him -----
so that answers the OP question -----you need to hear the Gospel FIRST to obtain the right faith to believe in Him -------God the Father has drawn you and opened your Ears to Hear --and upon hearing the right Faith is inbirthed in you to believe ---
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·But before people can ask the Lord for help, they must believe in him [L
How, then, can they call on one in whom they have not believed?]; and ·before they can believe in him, they must hear about him [L how can they believe in one of whom they have not heard?]; and ·for them to hear about the Lord, someone must tell them [L how can they hear without someone preaching to them?];
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and ·before someone can go and tell them, that person must be sent [L how can they preach unless they are sent?]. [L As] It is written,
“How ·beautiful [
or welcome;
or timely] ·is the person [L are the feet of those] who comes ·to bring [proclaiming; preaching] good news
17 ·So [Thus; Consequently]
faith comes from ·hearing the Good News [L hearing], and ·people hear the Good News [hearing comes; or the message/report arrives] ·when someone tells them [through the word/message] ·about [or proclaimed by; L of] Christ.
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I am posting this from this sight ----which gives the Context -----
https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/10/Romans-10-13.html
Context Summary
Romans 10:5–13 explores how Israel's people have, for the most part,
rejected God by refusing to trust in Christ. Instead of waiting for some new truth to fall from heaven, or float up from the abyss, they ought to recognize that truth has already been given. All who confess Christ as Lord, and believe in His resurrection, will be saved. This is true for both Jews and Gentiles.
Chapter Summary
Paul's heart is broken for his people, Israel.
He prays they will be saved through faith in Christ.
Their enthusiasm for God is made useless by their attempt to be made righteous by their own law-keeping instead of by faith in Christ. What, then, is required to be saved?
One must confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised Him from the dead. The same is true for both Jews and Gentiles.
God waits patiently for Israel to turn and believe.
What does Romans 10:13 mean?
Paul quotes from the prophet Joel in this verse, declaring that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved (Joel 2:32). In doing so, Paul accomplishes two things.
First, he connects this truth to His statement in the previous verse that Christ, the Lord of all, gives His riches to all who call on Him, both Jews and Gentiles.
The idea of "calling on the name of the Lord," in this context, means those who turn to Christ in faith seeking salvation.
While not literally a description of a "sinner's prayer," Paul is referring to those who express the sentiment that a "sinner's prayer" contains.
This is the act of placing one's faith in Christ. This is crucially different from those Jesus described in Matthew 7:21–23, as those who use His name, but have no actual faith in Him.
Paul makes a second connection, as well, showing that Christ the Lord is in fact Israel's Yahweh from the Old Testament. They are one in the same.
All who call on Him in faith, both Jew and Gentile, will be saved from God's wrath against sin and will share in God's glory forever
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I say
So just anyone calling on the name in Christ will not be saved ----they have to have
the right Faith and
Trust in Him to even call on His Name and that Faith comes by Hearing the Gospel being Preached by one who is sent to Preach it -----
-Which means your Preacher has to be a Born Again Preacher who is saved to Preach God's faith Words to you -------
A NON Born Again Preacher is away from Christ and they have not the right Faith to Preach and their preaching is of no effect to them or to others ------they are just spouting out words ---and using their own intellect to interpret scripture ----which cannot give you the Spiritual meaning behind the Logos Word ----
Human Faith is a non producing Faith -----Human faith relies on the 5 senses -----
God's Faith relies on the unseen -----and will produce what they Word says -----Believe and Trust in Christ and you will be saved -----
NOTICE :Faith is a SUBSTANCE -----the evidence of the things NOT SEEN