Nicodemus was speaking from the limitations of his carnal mind. Jesus was talking about something altogether different
The conversion of the Philippian Jailer in Acts 16.
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Nicodemus was speaking from the limitations of his carnal mind. Jesus was talking about something altogether different
Sadly, I rather think you put the Good News and faith in the Truth and Christ Jesus outside of the ability of people ..... much like the gnostic/Calvinists do.
And here, I will explain it to you, 100% faith is the acknowledgement we have nothing to add.
You can add when you can accomplish exactly what Christ Jesus accomplished perfectly and not before.
So far that score has been ..... 0% others - 100% Christ Jesus
How much faith... is not the issue ... it is self-righteousness as per usual.
And I agree that we can add nothing to justification. However, from that point on until death is not justification.
Justification does not have an expiry date and it is a completed action on God's part.
That's correct, but everything done in obedience to Christ is not for justification; it is to maintain sanctification and glorify him.
Nope. If you have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.....You are saved. PERIOD. You have eternal life, you will never perish and there is no condemnation.
After this FACT. We can grow in grace and knowledge and live the Christian way of life Or we can live a miserable life of discipline, loss of temporal and eternal blessings, loss of temporal and eternal rewards...A life of SHAME.
Saved as if through fire or saved with well done good and faithful servant. OUR choice.
The 'for' here..is akin to getting something for something already happened. Like a pill for an illness.
The saving is from Jesus, not the H2O.
John 6:40
We are just speculating here. Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist, so was most likely baptised with water. Peter could have been baptized by John too, but that baptism is very different from the baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Paul rebaptized people in Ephesus who only had the baptism of John (Acts 19:4-5). If Peter were to follow Jesus' example, he would only need to follow His baptism by John (your point #2). Jesus contrasted John's baptism in water with the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:5; see also Matt. 3:11). So Peter was baptized twice: (presumably) once in water by Johh, and once by the coming of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. So people would not call Peter a hypocrite if he didn't have a third water baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (your point #3).
We are positionally sanctified (set apart) in Christ.
By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:10
We then learn to live outwardly what Christ has accomplished for us inwardly, no maintaining involved.
This has no bearing on our status as saved and justified.
I would call keeping one's self unspotted from the world maintaining sanctification. The learning process is work
You believe this because your theology forces you to, not the verbiage itself.
The "for here" is the same "for" used in:
Matthew 26:27-29 New King James Version (NKJV)Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
You believe Jesus shed His blood for "something that already happened".
Regardless of the command given, it is obedience to the command given by Jesus that saves.
In other words:
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
We may debate what commands must be obeyed but not the need to obey them.
When it comes to topics of salvation, free grace, faith Onorato Diamante is solid. The absolute best.
From the comments..
"What can wash away my sins? NOTHING but the Blood of Jesus."
Amen.
The guy isn't solid at all. He quotes the verse that says remission of sins is through repentance AND baptism, and then says remission is only through repentance. Sloppy exegesis
His exegeses is perfect, by scripture upon scripture, one consistent message about salvation.
"we are not baptized in order
to receive the remission of sins but
rather we are baptized because we have
the remission of sins"
That's not what the text he showed says. It says repent and be baptized INTO the remission of sins. In other words, A and B take you into C, but he shows that equation and then says only A takes you into C. He's gaslighting and doesn't have the sense to know what he's doing; just repeating what he's been taught
I noticed that also.
I doubt HeIsHere can see it. The ditch may be to deep.