floridays
Well-Known Member
We do.If you call this a response to your claim that we can can be saved like the thief on the cross and not by what Jesus told his disciples to preach to save the world..I can't help you because this isn't exchange.
Abraham lived in the Patriarchal age.
The thief lived in the Mosaic age.
We live in the gospel (Christian age)age.
God's dealings and requirements for people were different in every age.
The gospel dispensation is the last age.
Jesus Christ is eternal, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
I think the problem resides in your head, you attempt to make things conform to how you want them to be.
Was water baptism required to be deemed righteous?
Has believing, trusting God's word, believing what God says been constant, old and new testament?
Being declared righteous is what we are seeking.
How to be declared righteous, what is required is the question.
What remains unchanged, what is demanded from God, who is the same yesterday, today and forever is the question.
Believing God, trusting Him is the constant, old and new testament.
Don't believe that, just ask Abraham and the thief on the cross.
Both have been justified, neither have been water baptized.
Both however have been baptized.
You have to have something to boast about. Keep up your part of the deal, you work under a conditional pardon.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (Galatians 3:6)
Nothing for me to boast about in the bolded above, I'm satisfied.