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The statement in the OP is full of errors; --the "one baptism" in effect today (Ephesians 4:4-5) is the human administered water baptism of the great commission which is commanded to all people, saves, done in the name of Jesus Christ and lasts till the end of time. None of which is true about...

"having believed" of verse 34 sums up all of what the jailer had just done in repenting (washing their stripes) and being baptized. Here is a perfect example of 'believed" being used as a synecdoche where the part (believed) includes repentance and baptism. Just as "believed" of Acts 2:44...

If obedience to God are works of merit then God must require works of merit to be saved...Christ is the Author of salvation unto all them that have works of merit Hebrews 5:9. Yet Eph 2:9 would contradict that by showing works of merit do not save. Oh what a tangled web faith onlyist weave by...

Acts of the Apostles 3:17-19 Peter called those who were impenitent, unconverted and still lost in their sins "brethren". They were not brothers in Christ. Hence Ananias calling Saul 'brother' is not proof Saul was already saved before his being baptized. A Barnes on Acts 3:17 "And now...

I have asked others this question receiving no Biblically based answer.....where does the Bible ever call obedience to God's will a work of merit done to earn God's free gift???????

No, clearly James spoke of a KIND of faith that is void of works (faith alone) that does not save as the devils have. Contrasting this faith void of works to faith that includes works that does save.

Yes. In order to understand a particular subject, in this case salvation, one must examine ALL the verses that deal with salvation in order to have an accurate understanding of salvation. To take one verse as John 3:16 or cherry pick out verses that mention belief while ignoring all other...

All unbelievers will be condemned, no exceptions.... John 3:18; Hebrews 3:12; Romans 11:20-23

Romans 10:3 "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God." The faith onlyist tries to lump all works together as if all works are the same, hence they try and call obedience to...

14 - What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 17 - Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 20 - But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 24 - Ye see then how that by works a man is...

"What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are...

Christ died for every man (Hebrews 2:9) but every man will not be saved (Matthew 7:13) because every man will not obey Christ (Hebrews 5:9). And it is those who obey, who "worketh righteousness" that are the ones God accepts (Acts of the Apostles 10:35) and the disobedient God will in flaming...

Actually my argument is not needed at all for faith onlyists kill their own argument be falsely defining obedience as a work of merit so they can then attack that false definition. Luther's false dichotomy that salvation is by faith alone OR by works of merit is just that... FALSE for it...

The idea some have that salvation is by grace ALONE and by faith ALONE has always been logically contradictory, unbiblical. The word 'alone' is an exclusionary word, therefore if salvation were by grace ALONE then that excludes everything else from salvation, it would even exclude faith. On...

"humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways....then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land." From 2 Chron 7:14 God FIRST requires obedience from men "THEN" God hears, forgives and heals. Seems many desire forgiveness from God...

Yes, The present tense verbs of James 2:14 shows as long as one continues on not having obedient works then one continues on not having that type of faith that saves. 1 John 3:10 as long as one continues on not obeying/not doing righteousness then one continues on not being of God. Therefore...

Yes, I wasn't able to access it Monday.

Belief alone cannot save one impenitent person.

Faith without obedience works does not save. In the context, Christians' whose faith becomes dead, being void of obedient works, cannot save the Christian...Matthew 25:41-46; John 15:2; Matthew 7:21.

James 2, James was writing to those who were ALREADY Christians ("my brethren") and admonishing them, giving them a warning/heeding about losing their salvation by a false TYPE of faith... James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that...