There are Ideas how someone would get saved which don't line up with Scripture, I later write about the wrong Ideas of Salvation as a Warning but i write about
1.) the Gospel and 2.) how a man or woman gets saved.
1.) What is the Gospel ?
1.Cor.15.1-4 (KJV) Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; (2) By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. (3) For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; (4) And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Notice the If Clause in Verse two, an If Clause identifies a Condition, in this Case: if a Man or Women forgets what Apostle Paul preaches, the Believe in the Gospel by that same Man or Women would be in Vain. At same time that means believing in the Gospel will not be in Vain but for Salvation, if the Believer in Deed does not forget what Apostle Paul preaches. One of the Doctrines Apostle Paul preaches is about the Application of the Gospel, mentioned in this Article by quoting Romans Chapter 6 Verses 3 & 4.
2.) How does a man or woman get saved ?
Baptism is how a man or woman gets saved, because God says so in:
1.Peter3.21 (KJV) The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Acts8.26-38 proves the Baptism mentioned in 1.Peter3.21 (quoted above) is water (h2o) baptism. In Acts8.26-38 is the History recording of Philip who was led by God on a Way down from Jerusalem to Gaza and then was picked up by a Eunuch in a Chariot, then when they came driving on that Chariot near a Water, they stopped the Drive at the Water, went down and Philip baptized the Eunuch.(if the water mentioned in Acts8.26-38 was not literal but symbolical or only a figure of speech, then jerusalem and gaza arent literal either but we know those are literal places in the middle east and so is the water mentioned in the same Acts8.26-38 literal)
2.1 How the Water (h2o) Baptism is done
Rom 6:3-4 KJV Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. The Word Baptism means full Immersion, then the Believer is pulled out of the Water (H2O).
keeping the Gospel mentioned in 1.Cor.15.1-4 (quoted above) in mind, it is apparent the full immersion into water is the baptism into the death and burial with Jesus Christ as Rom.6.3-4 says, and when getting pulled out of the Water, it is Resurection with Christ and beeing in Christ (Gal.3.27).
2.2 When the Spiritual Baptism happens
the material literal water (h2o) is not the only Baptism, there is the Spiritual Baptism too: 1.Cor.12.13 (KJV) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. The circumcision of the Heart is Spiritual (Rom.2.29) and the same Spiritual circumcision of the Heart happens during the Water Baptism, look at Col.2.11-12 KJV In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: (12) Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. The Spiritual circumcision of the Heart in Baptism is done by only God himself but not the human who baptises by water (h2o), because only God gives his Spirit to a faithful Human (Gal.3.2), without the hand of a human coming in between. While a baptized Believer baptizes with Water (h2o), God is giving his Spirit into the faithful Human Being in the Water (h2o), circumcising the faithful Baptized Man or Woman in the Heart.
With Baptism in both Spirit and Water (h2o), there is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Christian, according Romans8.9, only someone in whom the Holy Spirit dwells in, is one of His, a Child of God. because there is only 1 Baptism but not 2 baptisms (Eph.4.5), both the Spiritual Baptism and the Water Baptism happen at same time. above is a picture that illustrates Baptism, for an easy understanding.
What God does during Baptism with the baptized Human Beeing, is how the Human Beeing is born of God, born again (or born from above as some Translations say). The Water that washes away the Sin of a Woman or Man in Baptism is the Word of God (Eph.5.26), the same Water is what a Human Beeing is born again by (John.3.3) in Baptism. God is doing that Rebirth by Water and Spirit in Baptism, as it is written inCol.2.11-12 that Baptism is the Faith operation of God. this means the human baptiser is not the savior, only God is the Savior and God alone saves the baptised faithful man or woman in water (h2o) baptism.
In the Godhead the Holy Spirit is a Person and that means the Holy Spirit that dwells in a Christian is a Person, since God is 1 and there is no other God.
the heavenly (non-material) water is the Word of God (Eph.5.26), same as the only begotten son of God who came in form of a man. the Word proceeds from God. the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit do the faith operation of the spiritual circumcision of the heart of the baptised man or woman, as mentioned in Rom.2.29 and Col.2.11-12.
If you believe according Scripture, you freely can be baptized according the Holy Scripture, you are invited by the God of the Bible.
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How the Gospel does not apply to a Man
Someone does not receive the Holy Spirit by "irresitible Grace" as calvinists claim, because the Holy Spirit can be resisted, as Acts7.51 says: Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. The Reception of the Holy Spirit happens when God applies the Gospel to a Human Beeing while circumcising the Heart in Baptism (mentioned above), that means when the Holy Spirit is resisted by Unbelievers, the Gospel has not applied to a Person.
That the Holy Spirit can be resisted does not mean God was not Almighty or not "sovereign" as a calvinists would say, He can turn the time back and erase any Unbeliever including their Disbelief from the Remembrance of Time but that is not the Point why the Holy Spirit can be resisted when it comes to the circumcision of the Heart. I believe the Reason why God made it that Way, that the Holy Spirit can be resisted is, God wants us to worship him out of Love, because we recognize him as God and that Worship is only possible when it is done FREEly. What kind of Marriage would that be if the Husband forces the Wife to marry him, would such thing be Love? NO, it would be tyranny but God is not a Tyrant towards his Bride! The Church of Christ is the Bride of God (according 2.Cor.2.12) and the Marriage is of course freely of Love and Holiness. I believe that is the same Reason why God let Adam and Even live after they sinned, the Mankind that came out from Adam and Eve was to have the Opportunity to recognize God and Worship God in Love and Holiness because of recognizing who God is by the Grace of God. I have to say this does not cease to amaze me, as written in Ephesians 1, God foreknew us even before the Foundation of the World was laid, He has not forgotten us, a Fatherly loving Kindness we did not deserve, an amazing Grace.
Beside that inapplicable "irresistible Grace", calvinism teaches a "Preservance of the Saints", claiming those who were bought by Christ wont perish but in 2.Peter2.1 it is written that there were People who were bought by the Lord but then perish. To keep their calvinistic "Preservance of the Saints", the calvinists have to deny even that JESUS is Lord (who bought them as mentioned in 2.Peter2.1) but Jude1.4 says JESUS Christ is the only Lord. The Greek Word for Lord in both Verses (2.Pe.2.1 and Jude1.4) is Despostes, that means absolute Ruler. With the falling Point of "Preservance of Saints" made by calvinists, the other Points of Calvinism like the Application of the Gospel by "irresitible Grace" fall too, because they are interdependent. Calvinism is the same ole Lie the Devil told Eve: "You will not surely die".
In Romans Chapter 4 Apostel Paul is not saying something like Salvation by Faith only, otherwise it would make no Sense when he writes only two Chapters further all over the Chapter against sinful Deeds (Ro.6.1 ff, 12 ff) and the same Apostel Paul writes against the Idea "faith only": Titus 1:16 KJV They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Don't you know the same God who says in the Bible you are saved by Faith, commands not only Faith but Baptism too? How come that Disobedience by so called Christians?? Most "Reformed" or "evangelical" Groups are a watered down Version of calvinism, then it's no Wonder why they have usually no Clue of what Baptism is and if someone shows them Mat.28.19 or Acts8 etc., they basically reject that Scripture, because it does not fit their "Faith only" Doctrine, "thats works Gospel" they say. The Spiritual Circumcision of the Heart in Baptism (H2O according Acts8) is not works by a Human but the faith operation of God, according Col.2.11-12. It is plainly written and yet so hard to grasp for People and I hope God reveals them the plain Biblical Truth. If you are really a Believer, you get baptized into Christ, according Scripture.
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the baptized Believer as mentioned in the End of the Article (above) how the Gospel applies to a Human, does not mean an impersonal indwelling of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is a Person but not impersonal. The made in usa so called "Church of Christ" confesses the Trinity of the God, admitting the Holy Spirit is a Person but when it comes to the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in a Believer according Romans8.9, then suddenly that so called "Church of Christ" claims the indwelling of the Holy Spirit was impersonal and (merely) an Understanding of Scripture someone reads. Strange, such a sudden mind Change. The Consideration of a spirit as something impersonal, is found in (almost) all the Definitions of Spiritism, you can check that by yourself, its to much to waste here Text about. The made in usa so called "Church of Christ" is with that per Definition spiritisitc, same as the watchtower society (aka "jehovas witness") wich considers spirit as something impersonal too.
Deceptive Way of suggesting the rejection of Faith to obtain Forgiveness unto Salvation
Before I write against the deceptive Way of suggesting the rejection of Faith by a Believer to obtain Forgiveness unto Salvation, I will write how a baptized Believer obtains Forgiveness after she or he commits a Sin.
If you are a baptized Believer according Scripture but then later commit a Sin, the Way to obtain Forgiveness by God is not repenting to then getting baptized again to apply the Gospel once again to you (Hebrews6.1-6), that is wrong. How a baptized Believer obtains Forgiveness when he or she commits a Sin is written in these Verses, read:
1.John 1:8-9 KJV If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1.John 2:1-2 KJV My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: (2) And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Look at 1.John1.8 - 1.John2.1-2, the Apostel is saying "we" (verse.8-9, v.1) and "our" (v.2), that means he is talking about Believers, about the "Children" (v.1) not Unbelievers. If a Believer confesses his Sin, God will forgive him and cleanse him from all Unrighteousness, not only the Unrighteousness of the unknown Sin but all unrighteousness as it is Written!
There are Deceivers who say on Hebrews10.26-27, that if you were a Believer and you commited Sin, you cant be forgiven and you will be in Hell, then they present a "choice", that "choice" the deceivers suggest to you is, you have to reject your Belief that you ever were a saved Believer, so that Heb.10.26-27 does not apply to you and you still have a way to get saved. The deceit those Deceivers actualy suggest to you with the "choice" they present to you is, that you reject the Faith you already have from the beginning while that deceit is supposed to look like that you are not one of those mentioned in Hebrews10.26-27 and still can get saved. If a Believer buys into that "choice", he or she has done exactly the Opposite of what he or she intended,that is: The Believer would become one of those mentioned in Hebrews10.26-27. Did you understand how their Deceit works? I find it DISGUSTING, from all the false Doctrines I remember I have heard until now, that Deceit is the most NASTIEST, because it uses the Love a Believer has for the Holyness of his or her Father in Heaven against the Believer on an emotional Level. I know the Bible a little bit and when I heard their Deceit in a Room, I right away remembered that I read somewhere in 1.John that the Apostel writes that if we confess our sin, we will be forgiven and obtain all Rightheousness. I brought up that Verse and got a reddot, that tells they are deceivers on purpose although they read in plain Biblical Text the direct Opposite of their Lie. Below is a Screenshot Image of that Room, that you see their nicknames and to know who they are, most likely there will be more Deceivers who suggest that "choice" (mentioned above) to you but once you understood their filthy little Trick, you as a Believer know that Enemy of Souls:
Later what a gal with the same deceit presented from another Room said was: "the devil believes too", she said that reacting on my Comment that we Believers are righteous by Faith (Gal.3.6-7), then along the Conversation she openly rejected the Term Christian, because --she said-- that Term was written only 2 times in the Bible and with that it should be very obvious that those are Deceivers. If you noticed, that gal directly attacked the Faith that comes by the Grace of God and is required that a sinning Believer is able to confess his Sin to obtain Forgiveness and Righteousness. She misquoted where Apostel Jakob (James in English Translations) writes that the Devils believe that God is one by quoting only that the Devils Believe but the Devils do not believe in the Gospel unto Salvation and then the Gospel is offered to Human Beeings, not to Demons. I noticed several Chatrooms like that pop up in a short time, that is what makes me think the Enemy of Souls organized the Deceit and send the false Preachers out in Droves to Trap even he Elect into rejecting their Faith.
The worst is, if they claim that God "showed" them "this" (refering to their Lie), because that claim implies calling God a Liar but even if they dont say God showed them this, their Lie is a Lie and in that Lie using Hebrews.10.26-27 out of Context and rejecting 1.John1.8-1.John1.1-2, they deny the God given Faith of a Believer unto Salvation, which is same as denying the Gospel of Jesus Christ (1.Cor.15.1-4) and teaching another Way of Salvation that allegedly a Believer never realy was a Believer when he has comited sin after Believing. Look at 1. John.1.8-1.John2.1 again were Apostel John writes if "we" confess "our" sin he is just and faithfull to forgive "us our sins". Was Apostel John now not real Believer too? According to the Deceivers who suggest their "choice" Apostel John was not a real Believer too but not so! Apparently the devil is getting senile over all the Centuries, their tries of deception are to absurd. Same as Apostel John is not one of those mentioned in Hebrews10.26-27, a baptized Believer according to the Holy Scripture, who confesses his Sin is not one of those mentioned in Heb.10.26-27 either but a forgiven, sinless and all righteous Man or Woman before our beloved Holy Father in Heaven and his Word JESUS Christ, according 1.John.1.8-9 - 1.John2.1. I am writing this to you that nobody wrest the Faith and first Love from you that you had from the beginning by the Grace of our Father in Heaven.
The Gospel does not apply by the so called "sinners prayer", it's not found in the Bible, only God applies the Gospel to a Human Beeing by circumcising the Heart in Water Baptism he Commands personally to his People according Math.28.19. The Water that comes out of a Women while she is giving Birth, is during how a Human Being is born but not born again (John3) or born from above. Eph 5:26 KJV That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, The Water a Faithful Man or Women is born again by in Baptism is the Word of God.
Below is a Picture of the made in usa so called "church of christ", in Case you would like to know whether I am a Part of it after reading this Article, look at the Screenshot Image I took in one of their Chatrooms:
