Was Nicodemus saved?

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Magenta

Magenta

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Nehemiah6 said:
What a ridiculous statement! Who do you think was buying salvation? So one could say that all your art work is also buying salvation. And that would be plain stupid.
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If you want to make plain stupid and/or ridiculous statements, that is on you. I am not the one
who gave the amount of money Nicodemus spent as evidence of his salvation. That was you.
 
PennEd

PennEd

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Nehemiah6 said:
You are trying to argue from silence, which is not valid. There were thousands of Jews who were saved at Pentecost and shortly thereafter. We hear nothing more about them, but that does not automatically mean that they were unfruitful. The very fact that Nicodemus came to Jesus and then stood up for Him later should be sufficient that the Holy Spirit was working on Him. And while all the disciples fled after the crucifixion, this man did something extraordinary. For all we know, he may have been with Joseph of Arimathea when Joseph approached Pilate for the body of Christ. If that does not tell you anything then you have already pre-judged this disciple of Christ negatively. And we are told not to judge God's servants. They both were probably older men and we really don't know what happened to them,
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I’m sorry but this negated none of the points I made.

Nicodemus was a high ranking member of the Sanhedrin, so his silence IS noteworthy, at Stephen’s death, and lack of documentation that he either followed, or preached the Gospel.

None of this means he is lost or saved. All it means was that he did nothing Scripturally noteworthy after Jesus’s resurrection. He is not listed as one of those at the day of Pentecost receiving the Holy Spirit, and he is not recorded to have followed the disciples or brethren.
 
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