What are the requirements/steps for salvation

[Guest Butero]

I would have to say faith plus confession and repentance. The Bible states that even the devils believe in Jesus and tremble at his name, but they are not saved. Faith comes first, but that faith must be acted upon. I have known of a lot of people that believe in the Lord, but don't serve him.

[eric]

I would have to say faith plus confession and repentance. The Bible states that even the devils believe in Jesus and tremble at his name, but they are not saved. Faith comes first, but that faith must be acted upon. I have known of a lot of people that believe in the Lord, but don't serve him.

In view of Eph 2:8-9, no one can argue with that, brother,as it takes faith to believe that Jesus can save you ultimately, but I believe myself, your calling on the name of the must be from a repentant heart, because if it is not, what are you asking Jesus to forgive you of. After all salvation is the deliverance, by redemption, from sinning and the consequences of that sinning.

Thank you for your input bro, it is always appreciated.

[Openly Curious]

Repent And Go And Sin "NO" More

Now that is true repentance before God

OC

[Rick-Parker]

What about this scripture? Paul and Silas are in prison at Philippi. There is a big earthquake and the prisoners are set free. The jailer thinks they have escaped and goes to kill himself. Paul, seeing this, yells to the man and tells him to hold as everyone was still there. Then.....

Acts 16:29-31 "He (Paul's jailer) called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, and brought them out and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house." (WEB) So, was Paul mistaken? Did he leave something out? Did he tell a half truth? Was he oversimplifying the matter? Or are we making it more difficult than it has to be? Are we putting more into it than what God requires?

[Openly Curious]

What about this scripture? Paul and Silas are in prison at Philippi. There is a big earthquake and the prisoners are set free. The jailer thinks they have escaped and goes to kill himself. Paul, seeing this, yells to the man and tells him to hold as everyone was still there. Then.....

Acts 16:29-31 "He (Paul's jailer) called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, and brought them out and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house." (WEB) So, was Paul mistaken? Did he leave something out? Did he tell a half truth? Was he oversimplifying the matter? Or are we making it more difficult than it has to be? Are we putting more into it than what God requires?

"Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house". Yes I do think we write more into things that are not there. Somethings that are in scriptures in various places and spoken by different people may say it different in words but mean the same thing.

If one believes in the Lord Jesus Christ that is to call upon the name of the Lord so if one believes for the first time then repentance follows believing. If your family then believes and repents of their sin they to will be saved.

So that is why I say, "Go And Sin "No" More". For that is the very heart of God that all would come to a place repentance and that we go and sin no more. That doesn't mean we want ever falter or fail along the way but we have an advocate with the Father.

OC

[Khristeeanos]

Colossians 2:12 says that baptism is the work of God and what unites us with Christ.

[IslandRose]

Colossians 2:12 says that baptism is the work of God and what unites us with Christ.

Any other stipulations? Like who can do the baptizing?

[John3;16]

[Khristeeanos]

Colossians 2:12 says that baptism is the work of God and what unites us with Christ.

Any other stipulations? Like who can do the baptizing?

Let us see!

Colossians 2:11-13

11In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.

No. It doesn't say here.

All it says is that we were buried with Christ in baptism and raised in the power of God, in the same way that God's power raised Jesus from the dead.

Parallel passages include:

Romans 6:3-7

3Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

5If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin

[deut31:12]

What about this scripture? Paul and Silas are in prison at Philippi. There is a big earthquake and the prisoners are set free. The jailer thinks they have escaped and goes to kill himself. Paul, seeing this, yells to the man and tells him to hold as everyone was still there. Then.....

Acts 16:29-31 "He (Paul's jailer) called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas, and brought them out and said, 'Sirs, what must I do to be saved?' They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your house." (WEB) So, was Paul mistaken? Did he leave something out? Did he tell a half truth? Was he oversimplifying the matter? Or are we making it more difficult than it has to be? Are we putting more into it than what God requires?

No, we just leave some out. Finish the rest of the passage that you quoted.

And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. - Acts 16:32-33

Remember, Jesus made this statement for a reason:

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. - Mark 16:15-16

When we believe the gospel and are baptized we will be saved. If we don't believe the gospel we wouldn't get baptized anyway and we would be damned.

Even though baptism itself doesn't save us it still has a huge part in God's plan of salvation. It was mentioned already in Romans what happens in baptism. Many have said that baptism takes away from the work Jesus did on the cross, but Romans tells us that in baptism we are buried and resurrected with Jesus into his death and those who are dead are freed from their sins.

Along with faith and repentance there must also be baptism for the remission of our sins (Acts 2:38).

Also there is only one baptism that we have been give for us to perform and we see that throughout the book of Acts that is is in water.