This is just sheer speculation and presumption. Paul's answer WAS complete. To be saved, one must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. But you keep forcing more into Paul's answer, via speculation.
Believe whatever you want. It is very clear to see that Paul told the jailer and his family a lot more than “believe and you will be saved”. The jailer had not heard…. Wait, … I repeat myself. And you’ve already said you don’t believe what Scripture says. So why am I wasting my time? I’m not. I am speaking to others who I hope are reading this forum. I can see that you aren’t listening, or trying to learn.
Of course it is. That is why the Bible says we are saved BY GRACE through faith. When we believe, we are doing nothing but trusting. That doesn't help God or assist God. He does the saving.
Of course He does. But He has also told us that He doesn’t/won’t save those who don’t obey Him (Acts 5:32, Heb 5:9). He has told us that only those who repent will be forgiven (Acts 3:19). He has told us that we receive the Holy Spirit when we are baptized in water (Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, Rom 6:1-11, Col 2:11-13, Eph 5:26).
In fact, 1 Cor 1:21 says that God is pleased to save those who believe. That's it. But it's clear you are shocked by that fact. You have been taught by false teachers.
As I have tried to get you to see, “believe” here, as with everywhere else in the NT, comes from the Greek pistis:
believe.
πιστεύοντας (pisteuontas)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith,
This is NOT a passive mental assent belief. This is active faith. It is not just one who hears a message and says in his heart, “Oh, ya, I think that’s true.” It is someone who hears the message, and obeys the command of the one in whom he believes (Acts 6:7, Gal 5:7, Rom 1:5, Rom 16:26, Rom 6:17, Rom 10:16).
No, I never said that. Paul's answer to the jailer was "believe ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST and you will be saved".
That was not his entire answer. It is VERY clear in verse 32 that Paul proceeded to “speak the Word of the Lord to him and to all in his house.” What is the “Word of the Lord”? It is the Gospel message. It is the thing we must believe and obey.
The Gospel (literally “good news”) is that
God became flesh, lived a sinless life, died a sacrificial death free from sin, arose from the dead three days later thereby conquering death (separation from God), and He offers to exchange our sin and shame for His righteousness and glory if we will repent of our sins, confess His name, and be baptized into Him. That is the Gospel. And that is what Peter went on to explain to the jailer and his family.
These verses prove your claim to be in error. Serious error.
Salvation:
Mark 16:16 " He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
Wait, wait. I thought you said this was uninspired.
But if we are using it, then it absolutely proves my claim.
Let me see if I can articulate your reasoning on why it disproves my claim. You think because baptism is not mentioned in the second half of the verse that it is irrelevant to the first half.
Well, that would be like saying, “If you get out of the ice water, and get dressed you will get warm; if you don’t get out of the ice water, you will freeze.” Now, does it matter if he gets dressed while still in the water? No. He is still going to freeze. So it goes without saying anything about getting dressed in the second half because it is irrelevant. The same goes with baptism. If you don’t believe, it is worthless. But it is very much a part of salvation based on the first half of the sentence.
Luke 8:12 "Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.
Again, pistis, have faith.
Acts 11:14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
What did he speak? The Gospel (Acts 2:14-39, Acts 10:34-48).
Acts 16:31 They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Now, don’t stop there. Read in through 32. And then he spoke the Word of the Lord to him and his household. He had not yet heard the Word of the Lord in verse 31.
Rom 10:9, 10 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Belief leads to righteousness. And confession with the mouth (a decidedly physical act) leads to salvation. It does not flow
FROM salvation. It
LEADS TO salvation.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Again, pistis, to have faith.
1 Cor 1:21 - For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
Again, pistis, to have faith.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Indeed, faith is the conduit, the “aqueduct”, through which Gods grace of salvation is poured into us. But faith without action is a broken pipe, a fallen aqueduct, and cannot carry salvation to us (Charles Spurgeon- “All of Grace”).
2 Thess 2:13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
There are many more passages on faith (and I deleted some of the ones you listed) so I will answer all of them with this one.
Faith without action is worthless (James 2:26). It is not faith; it is dead. It is a broken pipe, or aqueduct, that cannot carry God’s grace of salvation to us (as Eph 2:8 says living faith does). Without obedience, we do not have faith, and faith is required for us to please God (Heb 11:6).
Eternal Life:
So much for your wildly inaccurate "single verse doctrine" claim.
Yes, all of these passages say we must have faith (not just mental assent). That being so, all of them refer to the rest of Scripture where instruction on what must be done is listed. For instance:
Acts 3:19
Rom 10:9-10
Acts 2:38
I just gave you 24 verses that have NO lifestyle commands for salvation.
Wrong answer. They ALL say we must have faith. Faith is a lifestyle of obedience to God. And it must begin before salvation is received because it is the conduit through which salvation is received.
I don't use commentaries.
So you didn’t quote from one just a few posts ago?
You are too literal in your understanding. I was not referring to man-written commentaries. I was referring to anything we use to determine the meaning of a difficult passage, and the Bible is the best (really only) source for doing so.
I do look at them. They are HOW a believer is to live. But you conflate that with how to be saved.
No. I have only listed passages that say something
LEADS TO salvation. There are many other passages that say
after salvation we must live in love, peace, harmony, striving for aimlessness, walking in the Light, etc. But passages like Acts 3:19 say something (repentance in this case)
leads to forgiveness (salvation); Rom 10:9-10 says that confession of Jesus’ name
leads to salvation; Acts 22:16 says that baptism in water (an act that Saul had to
DO) is for washing away sins.
These are not actions that
flow out of having been saved. They are actions Scripture says specifically
lead to salvation.