What must I do to be saved

I understand what you you are saying. My bitterness left me unproductive for a time, but I still believed everything God had taught me and I still desired to share it. I don't think that I was ever unsaved, but I was not productive. What God accomplished during this time I believe I am now a lot more humble.

I cant believe im actually going into this bees nest again but wasnt the thread called WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED.? So why do we continue this tanget? Answer is simple and biblical...BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALL BE SAVED...

Romans 10:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.

There should be no confusion as Satan is the author and manipulator of confusion...its not a hard thing to grasp..why are WE as christians here in this forum MAKING it so complicated???

Hi Jewel , and Amen to that !!!

Ralph said:

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Right!

Right! So why do we keep arguing this point?

Lol..im not arguing sides..just like the cartoon charactor..lol

The OP changed the focus of the discussion when he posted ---

..sad...

I went back to read original post and he really DID change it up didnt he? Lol

MY God doesnt play games that way.. <-- amen sister

Yes. Joy is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. This is not the joy the Lord is referring to about the 2nd soil.

I had MANY "joyfull" moments before Salvation. This one time, I drew an inside straight flush playing poker with my buddies, and I can tell you I was plenty joyfull!

The 2nd soil people thought Christianity was all about a lottery ticket win to heaven. But they had NO ROOT IN THEMSELVES. JESUS IS THE ROOT! When they found out that Jesus wasn't a lottery ticket but a Way of Life, they said no thanks.

So they NEVER had Jesus, and were NEVER a born again new creation. They didn't lose Salvation because they NEVER had it to begin with.

Well Ralp, the question in Acts 16:31 is an answer to the question of the Philippian Jailor which is the same question of the OP. Eventually, one would answer the question in the present tense since it is in the present need. The resulting of such saving faith at the very moment one believe shall be “saved” which is not a promised being conditional but rather expresses a firm determination. Literally, anyone who placed his faith, trust, believes in Christ alone as his /her Saviour is saved. It doesn’t say “continue to believe” as far as the Bible is concerned. The present to “believe” is written because; it is a present reality need of every sinner just like the Philippian jailor. Again, there is no such thing as in the scriptures as “continue to believe” Your “continue to believe” is to be found nowhere in the scriptures and has nothing to do to get salvation. In particular for being declared righteous or just because of faith, the Bible simply says, “The just shall live by faith” Is there continuity of faith in order to be saved? None! It is all because the just (saved by faith/who believes in Christ ) is to live by faith.

Your comparison from the verse that I cited is actually far from the truth of being saved. The fact of what John has written is about abiding which is not a direct implication to the actual OP and of the question of the Philippian Jailor.

I just can't make any sense of this. Ralph says we have to continue in the faith, fredo says, no we have to live by faith. It's like: "This is an apple" then "No it's not, it's an apple!"

Amen brother! Well said.

The question is what does it mean by, eats my flesh and drinks my blood

Jesus explains the sense of the entire passage when He says, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) As Jesus was accustomed, He used figurative language to emphasize these great spiritual truths.

Jesus is not speaking of cannibolism here, but believing in Christ, as He makes abundantly clear by repeating the same truths both in metaphoric and plain language. Compare for example the following two verses:

“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life” (verse 47).

“He who eats this bread will live forever” (verse 58).

“He who believes” in Christ is equivalent to “he who eats this bread” and the result is the same, eternal life. The parallel is also seen in verses 40 and 54:

“Everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (verse 40).

“Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day” (verse 54).

John 6 does not afford any support to the false Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. On the contrary, it is an emphatic statement on the primacy of faith as the means by which we receive the grace of God. Jesus is the Bread of Life; we eat of Him and are satisfied when we believe in Him.

Bread represents the "staff of life." Sustenance. That which essential to sustain life. Just as bread or sustenance is necessary to maintain physical life, Jesus is all the sustenance necessary for spiritual life.

The source of physical life is blood -- "life is in the blood." As with the bread, just as blood is the empowering or source of life physically, Jesus is all the source of spiritual life necessary.

So it's not just me.

Yep. No question about it. You are saved the moment you place your trust for the forgiveness of sin in Christ.

Right now you're reading that and thinking, "see, salvation can not be lost; they are saved". This is that famous circular reasoning of the 'once saved always saved' movement I was talking about. It goes like this: "We know a person can not lose their salvation because they are saved, and saved people can't lose their salvation".

I view salvation like a man running into a storm shelter to be saved from the storm and he remains safe from the storm as long as he stays in the shelter. You view salvation like a man running into the storm shelter to be saved from the storm and him never being able to leave the safety of the shelter (traditional 'once saved always saved'), or, you say that the man can leave the shelter and still be saved no matter what happens to him away from the shelter (new Freegrace 'once saved always saved').

And to add another point to the traditional version of 'once saved always saved', if your body is found outside floating face down in the debris of the storm that means you were never in the storm shelter to begin with.

But when one examines ALL the counsel of the Bible about security and assurance of salvation you will see that the version of the shelter and being saved is what the Bible actually teaches.