The gospel is "believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved"...?

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So can we resolve these issues or discuss them maybe....?

Is our salvation dependent upon right (or wrong) believing or not...? Or our (confession and) repentance or our being "repentant" in and throughout our lives, and which one is it, if it is...?

Comments...?

Salvation means that person is saved from the judgment that would come because of sin. Forgiveness is offered for free and don’t require anything. However, if person doesn’t accept it and reject sin, forgiveness is not useful. If sin is forgiven but person continues in sin, there would be judgment because of the new sin. That is why Jesus taught that people should repent, stop sinning.


These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

Mat. 25:46


For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:23

"Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
John 8:11

Person who believes this and repents (rejects sin), can become righteous and for them there is eternal life. If person doesn’t believe this and remains in sin, forgiveness is not useful. It would be like washing a car and right after that mess it with mud. Washing is not useful, if one mess up things right after that.
 
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You left the most important part of the Strong's definition out!

The Strong's starts by saying " pisteuo means " NOT" just to believe."

The Vines:" a personal surrender to Him and a life inspired by such surrender. Producing a full acknowledgement of God's revelation of truth."

Pisteuo is a verb, and action word. A specific action , based upon a specific belief, sustained by a specific kind of confidence.

So belief, or believing is " a part" of pisteuo, or saving Faith, but taken on it's own is error.

The correct understanding of pisteuo or saving Faith is : a continually surrendered life, based upon the Belief that He has taken , maintains, cares for, sustains that surrendered life, sustained by the confidence we are making the hundreds of little daily decisions showing God we truly see our surrendered life asnot ours anymore, but His.

See the difference? When Believe, believing, and believer, are used as the Faith that saves, the object of Faith changes from the surrendered life, to believing God's word and promises. God's word and promises can't be the object of Faith or Faithing, it must be towards Christ Himself , a real living person! The continually surrendered life is what He requires for us to make our abode in Him, and His abode in us.

Here are links and none of them state "not just to believe"

But what they do say is "to be persuaded of"
Example: I am persuaded, because of the Bibles evidence (especially the Gospel of John), that Jesus is the promised Messiah of Old Testament prophecies and that eternal life is given, when a person trust in The Messiah for eternal life.

Strong's Greek: 4100. πιστεύω (pisteuó) -- to believe, entrust

Genesis 1:1 (KJV)

Strongs's #4100: pisteuo - Greek/Hebrew Definitions - Bible Tools

G4100 πιστεύω - Strong's Greek Lexicon

Pisteuo - New Testament Greek Lexicon - New American Standard

pisteuo - Strong's number G4100 - Greek Lexicon | Bible Tools - Messie2vie
 
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Here are links and none of them state "not just to believe"

But what they do say is "to be persuaded of"
Example: I am persuaded, because of the Bibles evidence (especially the Gospel of John), that Jesus is the promised Messiah of Old Testament prophecies and that eternal life is given, when a person trust in The Messiah for eternal life.

Strong's Greek: 4100. πιστεύω (pisteuó) -- to believe, entrust

Genesis 1:1 (KJV)

Strongs's #4100: pisteuo - Greek/Hebrew Definitions - Bible Tools

G4100 πιστεύω - Strong's Greek Lexicon

Pisteuo - New Testament Greek Lexicon - New American Standard

pisteuo - Strong's number G4100 - Greek Lexicon | Bible Tools - Messie2vie

Yes it does, I have the book 4100 , the New Strong's Expanded Dictionary. Includes the best of Vines and cross-referenced with Thayer's, Brown-Driver-Briggs.

It's like 15 bucks on Amazon.
The Exact quote again, " pisteuo means NOT just to believe". 4100
 
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Yes it does, I have the book 4100 , the New Strong's Expanded Dictionary. Includes the best of Vines and cross-referenced with Thayer's, Brown-Driver-Briggs.

It's like 15 bucks on Amazon.
The Exact quote again, " pisteuo means NOT just to believe". 4100

Oh the new one, so somebody finally made a version that fits your beliefs, probably John MacArthur
 
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Oh the new one, so somebody finally made a version that fits your beliefs, probably John MacArthur

This is the definition of pisteuo I stand on and know is correct.
Vines: "A personal surrender to Him, and a life inspired by such surrender. Producing a full acknowledgement of God's revelation of truth."

This is true NT saving Faith. No mention of "believing" anything as you define it. Is there believing involved in true pisteuo? Yes! but taken on it's own is error.
 
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This is the definition of pisteuo I stand on and know is correct.
Vines: "A personal surrender to Him, and a life inspired by such surrender. Producing a full acknowledgement of God's revelation of truth."

This is true NT saving Faith. No mention of "believing" anything as you define it. Is there believing involved in true pisteuo? Yes! but taken on it's own is error.

Good that the Bible shows your definition to be incorrect.
John 4 women at the well was told by Jesus that if she took a drink of the water He offered, she would not thirst again. I do not believe Jesus stated that she had to keep drinking.

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
 
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The gospel is "believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved"...?


And that's it, that's the good news, however, questions come up, like "believe how" for one, maybe even "believe what" (about or with Jesus Christ) for another, and do we all have to believe or all believe the exact same thing when it comes to Jesus or God, or in having our Christian beliefs about God or whatever, do they have to be the same, or, can they be different?

Then, some will say if you are truly one of His, that confession and repentance must be involved or is a part of the deal as well, and they would be right, mostly or for the most part. We all pretty much agree and there is not much disagreement about the "confession" and confessing part, but, we get hung up and argue quite a bit and there is a lot of disagreement about the whole repentance and repenting part.

So can we resolve these issues or discuss them maybe....?

Is our salvation dependent upon right (or wrong) believing or not...? Or our (confession and) repentance or our being "repentant" in and throughout our lives, and which one is it, if it is...?

Comments...?

God Bless!


<<The gospel is "believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved"...?>>


This statement is not conclusive; salvation will depend on what is meant by “believe in/on”. Even then the statement would be “a Gospel” not “THE Gospel”

In the early 1900s when Dispensationalism erupted Dispensationalism taught

68 Gospels (mentioned in scripture). It can be shown that only one Gospel is mentioned in scripture and that is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, regardless of what words the Bible writers use. The Gospel according to Jesus, “Repent, the Kingdom of God is near”; and everything Jesus taught is in that context.

<<So can we resolve these issues or discuss them maybe....?

Is our salvation dependent upon right (or wrong) believing or not...? Or our (confession and) repentance or our being "repentant" in and throughout our lives, and which one is it, if it is...?>>

For those who keep the Commandments; do we keep the Commandments in order to be saved or do we keep the Commandments because because we are saved; this is like what came first the chicken or the egg. It is amazing how some abrogate the Law and in the absence of the Law still talk about repentance.
 
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Hello Everyone - Very interesting discussion! I am new here, but a long-time 'student' and 'interpreter' of Jesus's words/sayings. I personally think that literal interpretations of them (as well as what others have declared in the Bible) are often ill-logical. Sometimes, as for instance in the saying about 'eating' and 'drinking' Jesus' 'flesh and 'blood', ridiculously so. I have written a treatise, titled "What Did Jesus Really Mean?", Chapter Two of which goes into the matters being discussed here by interpreting Jeus's statements in non-literal terms. Here is a sampling of quotes from said Chapter (a pdf of which is freely downloadable by clicking here) which I 'dish up':) as an enticement.:

From page 27 "What else could the truth alluded to by Jesus’ various statements: “Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it”, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” and “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” possibly mean then? This is something you may well ask, especially if you’ve been indoctrinated by literal interpretations of such sayings. Comprehension in this regard requires that one appreciate what Jesus himself understood the earthly dynamic of our Life-Source and, consequently, what he grokked the nature of his and everyone else’s personal Life (which are expressions of and so only exist as a function of said Life Source’s Flow) to transcendentally be. What follows should come as ‘good news’ to anyone who has been disillusioned by growing awareness of the many ways in which the ‘app’☺ of rational logic is making it clear that literal interpretations of what’s said in The Bible are actually nonsensical. This doesn’t mean that real truth isn’t figuratively referenced by Jesus’ statements, however."

From pages 55 & 56 "As to the reason for the extreme emphasis on believing in ‘him’ in statements such as “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” (John 6:47) and “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (John 11:25 26) – again, before I go on, let me once more remind you that his ‘me’ referenced the Living Entity of Life because Jesus personally completely ‘i’dentified with It ! – my guess is that he figured that if folks didn’t at least believe that they had potentially ‘immortal’ (because existentially ‘rooted’ in said Entity) souls, such that they could (and would, if they lived ‘in accord’ with what he taught) continue to be functionally operational as coherent psychospiritual gestalts in the context of the ever-ongoing Flow of Creation after their physical body ‘died’, still ‘petty’ self ‘i’dentifying folks (which most of those around him then were) wouldn’t have sufficient ‘reason’ to choose to make the kinds of self-subordinating choices that are necessary for a soul to psychospiritually transcend the parameters of its ‘natural’ (while bodily ensconced, that is) constellation of selfishness. The ‘promise’ that the souls of those who believe that they have a Cosmic ‘I’dentity will (in due course) be ‘freed’ from having to suffer the many kinds of naturally unwanted experiences (such as frustration, pain, loss, and death) which are unavoidably part and parcel of existence in a physiosocial context and live in a state of unadulterated Love and Joy forevermore thereafter may indeed function as a self-transcendence motivating ‘pitch’ in relation to those who are still myopically entranced, and so essentially ‘enslaved’, by their own selfishness.

Such kind of belief is a double-edged sword, however, because ‘negative’ effects may and often do accrue as a result of the self reifying motivation which often ‘greedily’, in such regards at least, hitches a ride on it. As many have over the course of time since become aware, it is important that those who presently aren’t (so aware) be educated to the point where they also appreciate the fact that, notwithstanding the many ‘positive’ results that are clearly attributable to the kinds of Life embracing attitudes and intentions which logically derive from people embracing said belief, a whole slew of negatively consequential errors in judgment and consequent malfeasance (‘sins’ if you will) have historically not only gone unrecognized as being such, but even been paraded and lauded as ‘holy’ as a result of over simplistic interpretation and propagandizement of the ‘assurances’ and ‘guarantees’ pertaining to the futures which such kinds of ‘promises’ advertise.

Why? Because simply ‘thinking the thought’ and ‘talking the talk’, i.e. just believing and socially affiliating with others who ‘confess’ and ‘proclaim’ their belief that what Jesus and others have stated in similar regards is absolutely true, won’t result in a soul’s psychospiritually realizing the ‘eternally’ ongoing Life he referenced. One has to actually ‘walk the walk’ of self-transcendence by really considering and intelligently (one might say, Solomonically☺) evaluating what most likely will and what most likely won’t serve to maximize the experience and expression of Love and Joy in The Flow of Life and then really (i.e. conscientiously!) choosing to do what(ever!) one consequently thinks and feels has the best chance of so serving – in other words, not just for one’s own self ’s or any other particular self ’s or set of selves’ Love and Joy ‘sakes’– as one goes along, for the kind of Life Jesus spoke of to be ‘entered into’ and soulfully ‘lived’ thereafter."

Enjoy!

[Note: the link provided above will just lead to the downloading of (66 page) Chapter 2 which begins on page 24 of the treatise. If you'd rather download the full treatise, including Chapter 1 (which deals with issues other than the one's being discussed in this thread, click here.)
 
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Hello Everyone - Very interesting discussion! I am new here, but a long-time 'student' and 'interpreter' of Jesus's words/sayings. I personally think that literal interpretations of them (as well as what others have declared in the Bible) are often ill-logical. Sometimes, as for instance in the saying about 'eating' and 'drinking' Jesus' 'flesh and 'blood', ridiculously so. I have written a treatise, titled "What Did Jesus Really Mean?", Chapter Two of which goes into the matters being discussed here by interpreting Jeus's statements in non-literal terms. Here is a sampling of quotes from said Chapter (a pdf of which is freely downloadable by clicking here) which I 'dish up':) as an enticement.:

From page 27 "What else could the truth alluded to by Jesus’ various statements: “Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it”, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” and “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life” possibly mean then? This is something you may well ask, especially if you’ve been indoctrinated by literal interpretations of such sayings. Comprehension in this regard requires that one appreciate what Jesus himself understood the earthly dynamic of our Life-Source and, consequently, what he grokked the nature of his and everyone else’s personal Life (which are expressions of and so only exist as a function of said Life Source’s Flow) to transcendentally be. What follows should come as ‘good news’ to anyone who has been disillusioned by growing awareness of the many ways in which the ‘app’☺ of rational logic is making it clear that literal interpretations of what’s said in The Bible are actually nonsensical. This doesn’t mean that real truth isn’t figuratively referenced by Jesus’ statements, however."

From pages 55 & 56 "As to the reason for the extreme emphasis on believing in ‘him’ in statements such as “He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” (John 6:47) and “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.” (John 11:25 26) – again, before I go on, let me once more remind you that his ‘me’ referenced the Living Entity of Life because Jesus personally completely ‘i’dentified with It ! – my guess is that he figured that if folks didn’t at least believe that they had potentially ‘immortal’ (because existentially ‘rooted’ in said Entity) souls, such that they could (and would, if they lived ‘in accord’ with what he taught) continue to be functionally operational as coherent psychospiritual gestalts in the context of the ever-ongoing Flow of Creation after their physical body ‘died’, still ‘petty’ self ‘i’dentifying folks (which most of those around him then were) wouldn’t have sufficient ‘reason’ to choose to make the kinds of self-subordinating choices that are necessary for a soul to psychospiritually transcend the parameters of its ‘natural’ (while bodily ensconced, that is) constellation of selfishness. The ‘promise’ that the souls of those who believe that they have a Cosmic ‘I’dentity will (in due course) be ‘freed’ from having to suffer the many kinds of naturally unwanted experiences (such as frustration, pain, loss, and death) which are unavoidably part and parcel of existence in a physiosocial context and live in a state of unadulterated Love and Joy forevermore thereafter may indeed function as a self-transcendence motivating ‘pitch’ in relation to those who are still myopically entranced, and so essentially ‘enslaved’, by their own selfishness.

Such kind of belief is a double-edged sword, however, because ‘negative’ effects may and often do accrue as a result of the self reifying motivation which often ‘greedily’, in such regards at least, hitches a ride on it. As many have over the course of time since become aware, it is important that those who presently aren’t (so aware) be educated to the point where they also appreciate the fact that, notwithstanding the many ‘positive’ results that are clearly attributable to the kinds of Life embracing attitudes and intentions which logically derive from people embracing said belief, a whole slew of negatively consequential errors in judgment and consequent malfeasance (‘sins’ if you will) have historically not only gone unrecognized as being such, but even been paraded and lauded as ‘holy’ as a result of over simplistic interpretation and propagandizement of the ‘assurances’ and ‘guarantees’ pertaining to the futures which such kinds of ‘promises’ advertise.

Why? Because simply ‘thinking the thought’ and ‘talking the talk’, i.e. just believing and socially affiliating with others who ‘confess’ and ‘proclaim’ their belief that what Jesus and others have stated in similar regards is absolutely true, won’t result in a soul’s psychospiritually realizing the ‘eternally’ ongoing Life he referenced. One has to actually ‘walk the walk’ of self-transcendence by really considering and intelligently (one might say, Solomonically☺) evaluating what most likely will and what most likely won’t serve to maximize the experience and expression of Love and Joy in The Flow of Life and then really (i.e. conscientiously!) choosing to do what(ever!) one consequently thinks and feels has the best chance of so serving – in other words, not just for one’s own self ’s or any other particular self ’s or set of selves’ Love and Joy ‘sakes’– as one goes along, for the kind of Life Jesus spoke of to be ‘entered into’ and soulfully ‘lived’ thereafter."

Enjoy!

[Note: the link provided above will just lead to the downloading of (66 page) Chapter 2 which begins on page 24 of the treatise. If you'd rather download the full treatise, including Chapter 1 (which deals with issues other than the one's being discussed in this thread, click here.)


I started reading but it was too heavy for me but I might offer some comments: Genesis is a preamble to the covenant; Jesus always spoke in parables except when talking privately to His disciples; I believe "Son of man" and "Son of God", were names as are "God with us" and "Faithful and true"; today a Jew might say, "God does not have sons", but as far as I am aware Jesus' use of those terms were not questioned at the time.
 
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I started reading but it was too heavy for me but I might offer some comments: Genesis is a preamble to the covenant; Jesus always spoke in parables except when talking privately to His disciples; I believe "Son of man" and "Son of God", were names as are "God with us" and "Faithful and true"; today a Jew might say, "God does not have sons", but as far as I am aware Jesus' use of those terms were not questioned at the time.
I appreciate your taking a crack at reading my 'dense' o_O writing, Sparow.

However, re your comment about phrases, idioms, etc. that Jesus used not being 'questioned' at the time, I must say that (comment) is 'questionable'. For one thing, he was certainly 'taken to task' for saying he was a/the Son of God! But even more than that, I would ask what you thought the relevance of such information (presented as your 'awareness") to the thesis I have presented might be given the fact that these are being 'questioned' (and not just by me, at that) now?
 
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The gospel is "believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved"...?


And that's it, that's the good news, however, questions come up, like "believe how" for one, maybe even "believe what" (about or with Jesus Christ) for another, and do we all have to believe or all believe the exact same thing when it comes to Jesus or God, or in having our Christian beliefs about God or whatever, do they have to be the same, or, can they be different?

Then, some will say if you are truly one of His, that confession and repentance must be involved or is a part of the deal as well, and they would be right, mostly or for the most part. We all pretty much agree and there is not much disagreement about the "confession" and confessing part, but, we get hung up and argue quite a bit and there is a lot of disagreement about the whole repentance and repenting part.

So can we resolve these issues or discuss them maybe....?

Is our salvation dependent upon right (or wrong) believing or not...? Or our (confession and) repentance or our being "repentant" in and throughout our lives, and which one is it, if it is...?

Comments...?

God Bless!
Good question. I think that repentance needs to be not only initial, but also ongoing. We will sin. We will mess up. We will stumble. We should feel sorrow, and conviction, and ask forgiveness, and with His help, keep going.

I also think that there is a great extent to which we need to believe in Christ for exactly who He is, too. Unless we want to begin believing in "another Christ".

Anyone who denies His pre-existence as the Word who is God, denies His Virgin Birth, denies His physical death and physical Resurrection from the dead, and denies His physical return is in trouble.
 
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I appreciate your taking a crack at reading my 'dense' o_O writing, Sparow.

However, re your comment about phrases, idioms, etc. that Jesus used not being 'questioned' at the time, I must say that (comment) is 'questionable'. For one thing, he was certainly 'taken to task' for saying he was a/the Son of God! But even more than that, I would ask what you thought the relevance of such information (presented as your 'awareness") to the thesis I have presented might be given the fact that these are being 'questioned' (and not just by me, at that) now?



Sir you have misunderstood what I meant to say. I believe my comments are relative to the small amount of your thesis that I read.

I assume you mean something and I disagree with that assumption; that maybe incorrect. If I were to ask a Rabbi, “Is Jesus the son of God?”; he would most likely say no; if the Rabbi asked me, I would say “yes”. But do we disagree, I say no. because “son of God” means something different to the Rabbi than it does to me; and this is not a binary matter but infinite deviations; linked to prophesy, the world being turned upside-down and calling evil good and visa-versa. If I were to ask a Pharisee (2000 years ago), was Jesus the son of God, he would most likely say no; I would say yes; on this occasion the Pharisee and I can disagree because we are talking about the same idiom.

What does “son of God” mean to me; I do not take the words literally. Suppose Jesus was the literal son of God, what would that mean; what God would be His Father. We know that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God (Elohim); was the Word Elohim's son; what manner of procreation was responsible: what is required to entitle the title “son”. Jesus was the Word of God manifest in human flesh; Through Mary and Joseph Jesus is the son of all the important patriarchs; when Jesus refers to His father does he mean the word and Elohim His grand father or is it Elohim who is his father. We have learned nothing from Elohim only from the spokesperson, the Word of God who gave us creation, the covenant and the promise of the kingdom; it makes sense that the Word of God is the Father Jesus refers to because Jesus and His Father are the two witnesses who confirm the covenant.

The term “Son of God” appears in the Gospels (KJV) 23 times; I have not examined the original text but I believe is a preconceived idea of the interpreter/translators and is not a word for word equivalent; “of God”, with son omitted would be more valid or more meaningful, “King of Israel', Messiah, or God manifest in human form. Jews typically deny Jesus is the promised Mesiah, when we use the term "Son of God", the 2000 - 4000 year old semantics of the term are lost.

All of Israel, according to David, are (provisional) sons of God, Jesus is the only one to pass through the Guantlet and arrived at the other side and is alone the son of God, but after the resurrection of the righteous the will be many sons of God, what ever hat may mean.
 
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Sir you have misunderstood what I meant to say. I believe my comments are relative to the small amount of your thesis that I read.

All of Israel, according to David, are (provisional) sons of God, Jesus is the only one to pass through the Guantlet and arrived at the other side and is alone the son of God, but after the resurrection of the righteous the will be many sons of God, what ever hat may mean.
Thank you for the clarification. Except according to the gospels at least, the 'priests' of the time, who were the standard setters for 'Israel' did take to task as a 'blasphemer.'
 
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The gospel is "believe in/on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved"...?


And that's it, that's the good news, however, questions come up, like "believe how" for one, maybe even "believe what" (about or with Jesus Christ) for another, and do we all have to believe or all believe the exact same thing when it comes to Jesus or God, or in having our Christian beliefs about God or whatever, do they have to be the same, or, can they be different?

Then, some will say if you are truly one of His, that confession and repentance must be involved or is a part of the deal as well, and they would be right, mostly or for the most part. We all pretty much agree and there is not much disagreement about the "confession" and confessing part, but, we get hung up and argue quite a bit and there is a lot of disagreement about the whole repentance and repenting part.

So can we resolve these issues or discuss them maybe....?

Is our salvation dependent upon right (or wrong) believing or not...? Or our (confession and) repentance or our being "repentant" in and throughout our lives, and which one is it, if it is...?

Comments...?

God Bless!
The gospel defined

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;2. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.3. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;4. And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
 
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Thank you for the clarification. Except according to the gospels at least, the 'priests' of the time, who were the standard setters for 'Israel' did take to task as a 'blasphemer.'


Had Jesus not been who He said he was, He would indeed be a blasphemer; so there are important questions.

If we assume Jesus is the messiah, why was He not anticipated, why had He came upon them as a thief in the night, how did they not recognise Him and anoint Him; it was because the standard setters were not using the standards God gave them.

Daniel 9:24-25 (NKJV)
24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
25 "Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.


The Jews failed to rebuild Jerusalem; they had ignored all their prophets.

If Jesus was not the Messiah, then all the prophets have failed; and those who see prophesy fulfilled and being fulfilled are deluded.
 
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Do we have to elevate Him (Jesus) to being equal to and with God in our hearts, know the correct theology or whatever, and do we have to do it, in order to be saved...?

Do we have to repent or just be repentant to be saved...?

Do we have to have the right theology or correct belief to be saved...?

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Its more of repent of your unbelief, such as when Peter was preaching in Acts. He clearly told them of Christ being the promised messiah, which they jews did not believe that He was that person.
 
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Its more of repent of your unbelief, such as when Peter was preaching in Acts. He clearly told them of Christ being the promised messiah, which they jews did not believe that He was that person.
Everyone has different and varying levels of belief, (and also many seem to believe different things also) (but that's another topic)... But, everyone has different and varying levels of belief or faith, so what "level" of faith does it take to be saved...?

If you doubt "any promise of God at all", are you considered "faithless"...?

God Bless!
 
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