Featured Salvation Formula

"This formula for immortality will never work. You left out the incantation which must be verbalized."

"You left out the water also [Mark 16:16]. Think about it, if you don't get this formula 'just right' it could mean infinity in a torture chamber for who knows how many."

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9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:
10 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10

The above 'formula for immortality' is far more concise and accurate than yours. No where in your pitifully inadequate 'formula', that could send millions to hell, is verbal confession, belief in the resurrection, or water baptism to be saved even mentioned.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned. Mk 16

38 And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
40 And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation. Acts 2

20 that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ; 1 Pet 3

You need to take your formula back to the drawing board Van. Many could perish eternally due to your incompetence.

 

??? ....with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Don't fool yourself Van, everything you post is about what one must do to get God to 'transfer' or 'credit'.

 

Reminds me of the the Pelagianism I grew up with in the Church of Christ.

 

...complicated too.

 

That is a hallmark of conditionalism that bases salvation to some degree on man'e efforts instead of the free, sovereign grace of God in Christ Jesus. False gospels get away from the simplicity that is in the true Christ, the true Jesus, of the Bible: 2 Corinthians 11:3-4 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

 

8 Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah: Thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah Ps 3

30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1 Cor 1

20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.`Jn 3 YLT

Salvation Is of the Lord by Steven Lawson (ligonier.org)

 

I am not a Calvinist. I believe in the Biblical soteriology of salvation by the free, sovereign grace of God in Christ Jesus.

 

"Salvation Formula"? Salvation is not like baking cookies. Just more conditionalist nonsense like I grew up with in the Church of Christ and its Pelagianism.

 

Salvation formula:

God: From start to finish, salvation is THE Work of God. God makes it happen and He never fails.

Everything else is man centered speculation attempting to grasp the Divine.

peace to you

 

If salvation is focused upon what people do in hearing, being invited, understanding the gospel then it’s man centered.

If salvation is focused on what God does with God the Father choosing, God the Son providing His sacrifice, God Holy Spirit regenerating and convicting of the Truth of sin and of the gospel of Jesus Christ and Him crucified and generating faith with the person of Jesus as its object…

…That is the God centered, biblical supported salvation “formula”.

peace to you

 

You are correct.

If God responds to what people do in choosing them for salvation… that is man centered salvation.

If mankind responds to what God has done, as articulated above, with faith in Jesus… that is God centered salvation.

peace to you

 

It’s called being at the mercy of God or grace

salvation is something that God does to us and for us