[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":960},["ShallowReactive",2],{"footer-links":3,"content-\u002Fshema\u002Fconcerns\u002Fsalvation":12},[4,9],{"path":5,"title":6,"type":7,"isExternal":8},"\u002Fabout","About","link",false,{"path":10,"title":11,"type":7,"isExternal":8},"\u002Fdisclaimer","Disclaimer",{"id":13,"title":14,"body":15,"description":951,"extension":952,"meta":953,"navigation":955,"path":956,"seo":957,"stem":958,"__hash__":959},"content\u002Fshema\u002Fconcerns\u002Fsalvation.md","Salvation by Faith in Jesus",{"type":16,"value":17,"toc":935},"minimark",[18,22,42,56,79,99,122,127,154,162,166,169,174,187,293,296,313,317,325,424,436,444,448,461,509,519,526,544,550,554,562,652,664,668,671,702,714,718,721,827,831,853,870,901,919,923],[19,20,14],"h1",{"id":21},"salvation-by-faith-in-jesus",[23,24,25,26,32,33,37,38],"p",{},"One argument says that because ",[27,28,31],"span",{"className":29,"dataReference":31},[30],"bible-ref","Romans 10:12","–13 applies ",[27,34,36],{"className":35,"dataReference":36},[30],"Joel 2:32","’s promise about calling on the LORD to the “Lord” named in Paul’s discussion of Jesus, ",[39,40,41],"em",{},"saving confession must identify Jesus as Almighty God.",[23,43,44,45,50,51,55],{},"That is an interpretation of Paul’s use of Joel. It is not the wording of a stated requirement to confess the ",[46,47,49],"a",{"href":48},"..\u002F..\u002Fdivine","divinity of Jesus",". This belief contradicts what Jesus prayer to ",[46,52,54],{"href":53},"..\u002F..\u002Fhuman\u002Fdistinct","his distinct true God",":",[57,58,59],"blockquote",{},[23,60,61,62,66,67,70,71,74,75],{},"And ",[63,64,65],"strong",{},"this is eternal life",", that they know you, ",[63,68,69],{},"the only true God",", and ",[63,72,73],{},"Jesus Christ whom you have sent",". — ",[27,76,78],{"className":77,"dataReference":78},[30],"John 17:3 (ESV)",[23,80,81,82,86,87,93,94,98],{},"Paul says people confess Jesus as Lord and believe that the Father raised him (",[27,83,85],{"className":84,"dataReference":85},[30],"Romans 10:9","–10). He then quotes Joel's promise of salvation to everyone who calls on ",[46,88,92],{"href":89,"rel":90},"https:\u002F\u002Fofgod.info\u002Fname",[91],"nofollow","the name of the LORD"," and asks how people can call without believing, hear without preaching, or hear unless messengers are sent (",[27,95,97],{"className":96,"dataReference":97},[30],"Romans 10:13","–15). “Call on him” follows hearing and believing. Paul does not define it as confession.",[23,100,101,102,106,107,111,112,116,117,121],{},"The ",[46,103,105],{"href":104},"#what-the-apostles-preached-after-the-resurrection","recorded preaching and responses"," announce God’s action through Jesus and call people to repent, believe, and respond to him. They do not present assent to the ",[46,108,110],{"href":109},"..\u002F..\u002Ftrinity","Trinitarian doctrine"," or any ",[46,113,115],{"href":114},"..\u002F..\u002Ftrinity\u002Fdevelopment","other Greek philosophies"," as a condition of salvation. This addresses stated conversion requirements, not everything any believer might later conclude about Jesus. The question of being ",[46,118,120],{"href":119},"known-by-jesus","known by Jesus"," should likewise not be reduced to reciting a particular formula.",[123,124,126],"h2",{"id":125},"what-faith-means","What Faith Means",[23,128,129,130,135,136,139,140,144,145,148,149,153],{},"Biblical ",[46,131,134],{"href":132,"rel":133},"https:\u002F\u002Fword.ofgod.info\u002Fterms\u002Ffaith#the-meaning-of-faith",[91],"faith means trust in God"," which is reliance on who God is and what He has promised. Abraham “",[63,137,138],{},"believed"," the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness” (",[27,141,143],{"className":142,"dataReference":143},[30],"Genesis 15:6","). He was “",[63,146,147],{},"fully convinced"," that God was able to do what he had promised” (",[27,150,152],{"className":151,"dataReference":152},[30],"Romans 4:21",").",[23,155,156,157,161],{},"Likewise, believers trust the Father who raised Jesus from the dead. Jesus was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification (",[27,158,160],{"className":159,"dataReference":160},[30],"Romans 4:23","–25). That trust leads to repentance and obedience. God supplies the saving work.",[123,163,165],{"id":164},"what-the-apostles-preached-after-the-resurrection","What the apostles preached after the resurrection",[23,167,168],{},"The following accounts place each recorded announcement beside its response. A narrative’s failure to state a doctrine cannot establish that no listener ever held it; it can establish what these recorded appeals explicitly announce and require.",[170,171,173],"h3",{"id":172},"peter-at-pentecost","Peter at Pentecost",[23,175,176,177,181,182,186],{},"Peter addresses Israel, identifies Jesus as a man attested by God, says God raised him, and announces that God made him both Lord and Christ. Asked what to do, he calls for repentance and baptism in Jesus Christ’s name (",[27,178,180],{"className":179,"dataReference":180},[30],"Acts 2:14","–41). The account continues through the community’s life and its stated salvation outcome (",[27,183,185],{"className":184,"dataReference":185},[30],"Acts 2:42","–47):",[57,188,189,192,212,241,262,279,286],{},[23,190,191],{},"Men of Israel, hear these words:",[23,193,194,195,201,202,206,207,211],{},"Jesus of Nazareth, ",[63,196,197],{},[46,198,200],{"href":199},"human","a man"," attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know — this Jesus, delivered up according to ",[46,203,205],{"href":204},"..\u002F..\u002Fname\u002Fword","the definite plan and foreknowledge of God",", you ",[46,208,210],{"href":209},"love-of-god","crucified and killed"," by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. For David says concerning him,",[57,213,214,224,227,233],{},[23,215,216,217,220,221,223],{},"“‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;",[218,219],"br",{},"\ntherefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;",[218,222],{},"\nmy flesh also will dwell in hope.",[23,225,226],{},"For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.",[23,228,229,230,232],{},"You have made known to me the paths of life;",[218,231],{},"\nYou will make me full of gladness with your presence.’",[23,234,235,236,240],{},"-- ",[27,237,239],{"className":238,"dataReference":239},[30],"Psalm 16:8","–11",[23,242,243,244,249,250,253,254,257,258,261],{},"“Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, ",[46,245,248],{"href":246,"rel":247},"https:\u002F\u002Fprophecies.ofgod.info\u002Fmessianic",[91],"he foresaw"," and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to ",[39,251,252],{},"Hades",", nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore ",[63,255,256],{},"exalted at the right hand of God",", and having ",[63,259,260],{},"received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit",", he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,",[57,263,264,273],{},[23,265,266,267,272],{},"“‘",[46,268,271],{"href":269,"rel":270},"https:\u002F\u002Fofgod.info\u002Fname#lord",[91],"The LORD"," said to my Lord,\n“Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”’",[23,274,235,275],{},[27,276,278],{"className":277,"dataReference":278},[30],"Psalm 110:1",[23,280,281,282,285],{},"Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that ",[63,283,284],{},"God has made him both Lord and Christ",", this Jesus whom you crucified.”",[23,287,235,288,292],{},[27,289,291],{"className":290,"dataReference":291},[30],"Acts 2:22","–36 (ESV)",[23,294,295],{},"Jesus is the same person whom God raised from death. However God has glorified him to be both Lord and Christ, exercising authority received from God.",[23,297,298,299,302,303,307,308,312],{},"About ",[63,300,301],{},"3000"," receive Peter’s word and are added that day (",[27,304,306],{"className":305,"dataReference":306},[30],"Acts 2:41",") despite hearing nothing about the divinity of Jesus. The Lord even continues adding those being saved (",[27,309,311],{"className":310,"dataReference":311},[30],"Acts 2:47","). Peter’s recorded answer does not require a confession that Jesus is Almighty God or a three-person, one-essence doctrine.",[170,314,316],{"id":315},"peter-at-the-temple","Peter at the temple",[23,318,319,320,324],{},"Peter credits the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with glorifying his servant Jesus. He announces Jesus’ rejection and resurrection, urges repentance and turning back, and identifies Jesus with the prophet Moses foretold (",[27,321,323],{"className":322,"dataReference":323},[30],"Acts 3:12","–26). The next account records the interruption and listeners’ response.",[57,326,327,330,333,370,390,393,402,405,410,417],{},[23,328,329],{},"And when Peter saw it he addressed the people:",[23,331,332],{},"“Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?",[23,334,335,336,340,341,344,345,350,351,355,356,360,361,366,367,369],{},"The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His ",[46,337,339],{"href":338},"..\u002F..\u002Fhuman\u002Fserve-god","servant Jesus",", whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the ",[39,342,343],{},"author"," ",[39,346,347],{},[27,348,349],{},"leader"," of ",[46,352,354],{"href":353},"..\u002F..\u002Fdivine\u002Fclaims\u002Flife","life",", whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And ",[46,357,359],{"href":358},"..\u002F..\u002Fname","his name"," ⁠— by ",[46,362,365],{"href":363,"rel":364},"https:\u002F\u002Fword.ofgod.info\u002Fterms\u002Ffaith",[91],"faith"," in ",[46,368,359],{"href":358}," ⁠— has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.",[23,371,372,373,377,378,383,384,389],{},"And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what ",[46,374,376],{"href":246,"rel":375},[91],"God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets",", that His ",[46,379,382],{"href":380,"rel":381},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Fchrist",[91],"Christ"," would suffer, he thus fulfilled. ",[46,385,388],{"href":386,"rel":387},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Flife\u002Frepentance",[91],"Repent"," therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.",[23,391,392],{},"Moses said,",[57,394,395],{},[23,396,397,398,401],{},"‘The Lord God will raise up for you ",[63,399,400],{},"a prophet like me"," from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’",[23,403,404],{},"And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham,",[57,406,407],{},[23,408,409],{},"‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’",[23,411,412,413,416],{},"God, having raised up ",[46,414,415],{"href":338},"His servant",", sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”",[23,418,419,420,423],{},"— ",[27,421,323],{"className":422,"dataReference":323},[30]," - 3:26 (ESV)",[23,425,426,427,431,432,435],{},"Many who hear the word believe. ",[27,428,430],{"className":429,"dataReference":430},[30],"Acts 4:4"," reports that the number of the men came to about ",[63,433,434],{},"5000",".",[23,437,438,439,443],{},"Although God is the source of life, the same Greek word translated as \"author\" could also mean \"leader\". This is inline with ",[46,440,442],{"href":441},"..\u002F..\u002Fname\u002Fpurpose","the purpose of Jesus"," to be the way, the truth and the life. Peter would not called Jesus the \"servant\" of God if he intended to communicate that Jesus is the God of life.",[170,445,447],{"id":446},"peter-in-corneliuss-household","Peter in Cornelius’s household",[23,449,450,451,455,456,460],{},"Peter announces that God anointed Jesus, raised him after his death, appointed him judge, and grants forgiveness through his name to everyone who believes in him (",[27,452,454],{"className":453,"dataReference":454},[30],"Acts 10:34","–43). The Spirit falls while Peter is speaking, and the household is baptized (",[27,457,459],{"className":458,"dataReference":459},[30],"Acts 10:44","–48). Peter’s later account explains why these words mattered to the household.",[57,462,463,466,485,493,496,503],{},[23,464,465],{},"So Peter opened his mouth and said:",[23,467,468,469,472,473,476,477,481,482,484],{},"“Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for ",[46,470,471],{"href":204},"the word"," that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all), you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach to the people and ",[63,474,475],{},"to testify that he is the one appointed by God"," to be judge of the living and the dead. To him all ",[46,478,480],{"href":246,"rel":479},[91],"the prophets bear witness"," that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through ",[46,483,359],{"href":358},".”",[23,486,487,488,492],{},"While Peter was still saying these things, ",[46,489,491],{"href":490},"..\u002F..\u002Ftrinity\u002Fholy-spirit","the Holy Spirit"," fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God.",[23,494,495],{},"Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”",[23,497,498,499,502],{},"And he commanded them to be baptized in ",[46,500,501],{"href":358},"the name of Jesus Christ",". Then they asked him to remain for some days.",[23,504,419,505],{},[27,506,508],{"className":507,"dataReference":508},[30],"Acts 10:34-48 (ESV)",[23,510,511,512,515,516,435],{},"Instead of proclaiming ",[39,513,514],{},"Jesus is God Himself",", Peter made it clear that they testify that Jesus was ",[63,517,518],{},"appointed by God",[23,520,521,525],{},[27,522,524],{"className":523,"dataReference":524},[30],"Acts 11:14"," describes Peter’s message as words by which Cornelius and his household would be saved:",[57,527,528,531,538],{},[23,529,530],{},"And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’ As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”",[23,532,533,534,537],{},"When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also ",[63,535,536],{},"God has granted repentance"," that leads to life.”",[23,539,419,540],{},[27,541,543],{"className":542,"dataReference":543},[30],"Acts 11:13-18 (ESV)",[23,545,546,547,435],{},"These people also repented without the information that ",[39,548,549],{},"Jesus was supposed to be their God",[170,551,553],{"id":552},"paul-in-pisidian-antioch","Paul in Pisidian Antioch",[23,555,556,557,561],{},"Paul recounts God’s dealings with Israel, presents Jesus as the promised Savior, announces his death and God’s resurrection of him, and proclaims forgiveness and justification to believers (",[27,558,560],{"className":559,"dataReference":560},[30],"Acts 13:16","–41). The continuation records both acceptance and opposition.",[57,563,564,567,574,577,585,588,593,596,601,604,609,616,619,624,627,630,640,646],{},[23,565,566],{},"So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said:",[23,568,569,570,573],{},"“Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ ",[63,571,572],{},"Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus",", as He promised.",[23,575,576],{},"Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’",[23,578,579,580,584],{},"“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation. For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand ",[46,581,583],{"href":246,"rel":582},[91],"the utterances of the prophets",", which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed. And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.",[23,586,587],{},"And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers, this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,",[57,589,590],{},[23,591,592],{},"“‘You are My son, today I have begotten you.’",[23,594,595],{},"And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way,",[57,597,598],{},[23,599,600],{},"“‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’",[23,602,603],{},"Therefore he says also in another psalm,",[57,605,606],{},[23,607,608],{},"“‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’",[23,610,611,612,615],{},"For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption, but he whom God raised up did not see corruption. Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this ",[63,613,614],{},"man"," forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.",[23,617,618],{},"Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:",[57,620,621],{},[23,622,623],{},"“‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”",[23,625,626],{},"As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath. And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.",[23,628,629],{},"The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles. For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,",[57,631,632],{},[23,633,266,634,639],{},[46,635,638],{"href":636,"rel":637},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Flight",[91],"I have made you a light"," for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”",[23,641,642,643,645],{},"And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying ",[46,644,471],{"href":204}," of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.",[23,647,419,648],{},[27,649,651],{"className":650,"dataReference":651},[30],"Acts 13:16-49 (ESV)",[23,653,654,658,659,663],{},[27,655,657],{"className":656,"dataReference":657},[30],"Acts 13:48"," explicitly reports belief among those appointed to eternal life. Others reject the message (",[27,660,662],{"className":661,"dataReference":662},[30],"Acts 13:45","–46, 50–51). Paul’s recorded appeal centers on forgiveness through Jesus and the response of belief, not a stated requirement to confess Jesus as Almighty God.",[170,665,667],{"id":666},"paul-in-athens","Paul in Athens",[23,669,670],{},"At Athens, calls all people to repent, and says God appointed a man to judge the world, giving assurance by raising him from the dead:",[57,672,673,676,681,684,689,696],{},[23,674,675],{},"So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is He served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since He himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet He is actually not far from each one of us, for",[57,677,678],{},[23,679,680],{},"‘In him we live and move and have our being’;",[23,682,683],{},"as even some of your own poets have said,",[57,685,686],{},[23,687,688],{},"‘For we are indeed his offspring.’",[23,690,691,692,695],{},"Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all people everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by ",[63,693,694],{},"a man whom He has appointed","; and of this He has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”",[23,697,419,698],{},[27,699,701],{"className":700,"dataReference":701},[30],"Acts 17:22-31 (ESV)",[23,703,704,705,708,709,713],{},"Paul made a distinction between the \"Unknown God\" and \"a man whom He has appointed\". Although the audience responded in different ways: some mock, others ask to hear more, and ",[63,706,707],{},"some join Paul and believe"," (",[27,710,712],{"className":711,"dataReference":712},[30],"Acts 17:32-24","). The account reports belief without stating a requirement to confess Jesus as Almighty God or to affirm the Trinity.",[123,715,717],{"id":716},"what-faith-trusts","What faith trusts",[23,719,720],{},"Faith receives particular good news, not an undefined promise that everything will feel better:",[722,723,724,753,788,808],"ul",{},[725,726,727,344,730,734,735,739,740,708,744,748,749,153],"li",{},[63,728,729],{},"Who Jesus is:",[46,731,733],{"href":732},"..\u002F..\u002F","The Son of God",", ",[46,736,738],{"href":380,"rel":737},[91],"the Christ"," and the Lord whom God ",[46,741,743],{"href":742},"#peter-in-corneliuss-household","appointed",[27,745,747],{"className":746,"dataReference":747},[30],"John 3:16","–17; 20:31; ",[27,750,752],{"className":751,"dataReference":752},[30],"Acts 2:36",[725,754,755,758,759,764,765,708,770,774,775,774,779,783,784,435],{},[63,756,757],{},"What his death means:"," he gave his life as a ransom; his blood is poured out for ",[46,760,763],{"href":761,"rel":762},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Fterms\u002Fforgiveness",[91],"forgiveness","; Christ died for our ",[46,766,769],{"href":767,"rel":768},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Fdarkness",[91],"sins",[27,771,773],{"className":772,"dataReference":773},[30],"Mark 10:45","; ",[27,776,778],{"className":777,"dataReference":778},[30],"Matthew 26:28",[27,780,782],{"className":781,"dataReference":782},[30],"1 Corinthians 15:3","). For more on his death and the covenant, see ",[46,785,787],{"href":786},"the-cross","The Cross",[725,789,790,793,794,708,798,802,803,807],{},[63,791,792],{},"What God did next:"," God raised Jesus. His resurrection is essential to the announced forgiveness and the hope of future ",[46,795,354],{"href":796,"rel":797},"https:\u002F\u002Fkingdom.ofgod.info\u002Flife",[91],[27,799,801],{"className":800,"dataReference":801},[30],"Romans 4:24","–25; ",[27,804,806],{"className":805,"dataReference":806},[30],"1 Corinthians 15:17",", 20–23).",[725,809,810,813,814,774,818,822,823,153],{},[63,811,812],{},"What God offers through him:"," forgiveness, peace with God, access to grace, and life in the Son’s name (",[27,815,817],{"className":816,"dataReference":817},[30],"Acts 10:43",[27,819,821],{"className":820,"dataReference":821},[30],"Romans 5:1","–2; ",[27,824,826],{"className":825,"dataReference":826},[30],"John 20:31",[123,828,830],{"id":829},"how-to-respond","How to respond",[23,832,833,834,838,839,842,843,847,848,852],{},"Hear the gospel: Paul asks how anyone can believe without hearing and says faith comes through hearing the word of Christ (",[27,835,837],{"className":836,"dataReference":837},[30],"Romans 10:14","–17). Turn toward the Father from sin and false allegiances, trusting his grace through Jesus rather than trying to earn acceptance. Confess Jesus as Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead (",[27,840,85],{"className":841,"dataReference":85},[30],"). Be baptised and learn to follow what Jesus taught (",[27,844,846],{"className":845,"dataReference":846},[30],"Acts 2:38","–41; ",[27,849,851],{"className":850,"dataReference":851},[30],"Matthew 28:18","–20).",[23,854,855,856,859,860,864,865,869],{},"When a jailer asked Paul and Silas what he must do to be saved, they answered, “",[63,857,858],{},"Believe in the Lord Jesus","” (",[27,861,863],{"className":862,"dataReference":863},[30],"Acts 16:30","–31). They then spoke the word of the Lord to everyone in his house, and the household was baptised (",[27,866,868],{"className":867,"dataReference":868},[30],"Acts 16:32","–34). The household’s response is not automatic salvation through one person’s faith.",[23,871,872,873,876,877,879,880,859,883,887,888,859,891,895,896,900],{},"Salvation is “by ",[63,874,875],{},"grace"," ... through ",[63,878,365],{},",” God’s gift, “not a result of works”; believers are nevertheless created in Christ Jesus “for ",[63,881,882],{},"good works",[27,884,886],{"className":885,"dataReference":886},[30],"Ephesians 2:8","–10). Paul describes “faith ",[63,889,890],{},"working through love",[27,892,894],{"className":893,"dataReference":894},[30],"Galatians 5:6","). James challenges a claim to faith that gives no help to a brother or sister in need: even demons believe that God is one, and faith without works is dead (",[27,897,899],{"className":898,"dataReference":899},[30],"James 2:14","–19, 26). Obedience and love are responses to grace, not its purchase price.",[23,902,903,904,908,909,913,914,918],{},"That response includes ",[46,905,907],{"href":906},"fellowship","shared service",", not only private conviction. Paul describes members of one body using differing gifts for others (",[27,910,912],{"className":911,"dataReference":912},[30],"Romans 12:4","–8), and the church growing as each part works properly (",[27,915,917],{"className":916,"dataReference":917},[30],"Ephesians 4:11","–16).",[123,920,922],{"id":921},"conclusion","Conclusion",[23,924,925,926,929,930,934],{},"The claim that salvation requires a credal confession goes beyond the requirements stated in these accounts. In the ",[46,927,928],{"href":104},"apostles’ recorded preaching",", people are explicitly reported believing, being added, or receiving repentance to life after hearing about God’s work through Jesus. 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