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Thanks for sharing. Have a blessed day.

No. Simply believing is not the issue. The object of faith is always in view. Believing that when you sit down on a chair you will not fall will not save you. Believing that God exists and is the only real God does not save you either. Believing in the life, death, burial, and resurrection of...

You keep using the term accept. The Bible uses the term receive. Additionally, in relation to the term receive, it specifically says it is not received by the will of man, but the will of God. However you reconcile this is fine by me. I appreciate the discussion. Thanks.

To be saved one must believe the gospel. The passage doesn't say that demons believed the gospel. It says they believe there is one God. Where does it say in the scripture that believing there is one God results in salvation? Do you believe there is a way of salvation for fallen angels?

Yes I believed, but what I believed was birthed in me by the Spirit and the word of God. What do you believe it means that the gospel is the power of God unto salvation?

The yoke of Christ is not the bondage of the law.

If you feel better about having a part in your salvation I'm not going to object. But I believe that God did it all and I simply happened to be the recipient of His activity. When it says we are seated in heavenly places with God in Christ, do we do anything to make that happen? Or do we...

I had nothing to do with my salvation. I did believe into Him, but I didn't birth my belief...God did. The source of faith is not an individual; it is God. Faith comes BY hearing, and hearing BY the word of God. That word...BY...tells us how it came to be. It doesn't say BY me doing anything.

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I believed in Him. I received Him according to John 1:12-13. I didn't do anything to receive Him. It was done by God. Can you show me from scripture where it says we need to accept Christ? I've never seen it.

Thanks for the discussion.

No. Salvation still needs to be worked out in an individual's life. When I was born I was dead in trespasses and sins as it says in Ephesians 2.

My sins were paid for on the cross. My salvation was determined before the foundation of the world. It became real to me in time and space when God birthed faith in me one day employing the word of God.

There is only 1 in the context of the passage.

Belief or faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The source of faith is the Spirit of God employing the word of God...that is the power of the gospel Paul is not ashamed of.

The gift was paid for on the cross. Salvation is simply the point in time God let you know what He has done.

But it's God who quickens. When He does, salvation is a certainty.

Show me in the Bible where it says we must accept Christ.

Who rejects Christ after having been made alive?

God comes to an individual and tells them what He has done for them in Christ. That's the gospel.