Then I don't think you paid attention to my post or to the parts of the Scripture which I emphasized.
But let's be very simple about this:
-CryptoLutheran
No, I did, my comments took the entirety of your post into consideration. None of your post refuted what I said.
Of course, the lack of any substantive analysis from you didn’t help the matter. Ostensibly, you thought it obvious what you highlighted was a clear and unequivocal rebuttal to what I wrote, requiring no effort from you but the act of bolding.
Yet, one can examine what you emphasized in relation to what I wrote and realize there’s nothing textually there refuting what I wrote.
Perhaps more compelling is your proclivity to ignore the plain text.
Paul is A) Expressing a conditional statement B.) conditional statment of if x, then Y. X. Therefore Y. C) The conditional statement expressed a sufficient condition to be saved D) the conditional is what WE can do to receive and accept salvation made possible by Christ and offered by Christ.
“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;” (if x, then Y. X=“if you confess with your mouth Jesus
as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,” Y=“you will be saved;” X. Therefore Y.
Paul is expressing a conditional statment and a sufficient condition, of what a person does that results in the person being saved.
Where Mikey or any person “confess with your mouth Jesus
as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead” then Mikey and any such person “will be saved.”
That is the plain text. The plain text has Paul writing of what people can do to result in being saved.
What people can do, what action they can perform, according to Paul, is A) Confess with their mouth Jesus is Lord, and people B.) Believe in their heart God raised Jesus from the dead.
Paul clearly states those are acts to be taken by people and they result in being “saved.”
Simultaneously, Paul in the plain text has people
confessing and
believing in Jesus as Lord and
acts performed by the Lord that brought forth salvation, caused salvation to manifest, (aptly described as acts of salvation by God and Jesus) so people may then be saved when they confess and believe in those acts of salvation undertaken by the Lord and God, i.e. the Lord died and God raised the Lord from the dead.
Which means Paul, in his prose, has people acknowledging by therir act of believing and confessing, in a salvation and being saved that was and is from God and Jesus and their actions of death and resurrection.
Which means, and I repeat, what Paul has people “believing” and “confessing” in and to is empty without the redemptive and saving actions of God and Jesus.
Which also means Paul has
preserved in this verses that “no man can boast”
because their (people) believing and confessing isn’t to anything they did but a believing and confessing to what God and Jesus did that results in their salvation and righteousness
by their confessing and believing in those redemptive and saving acts of God and Jesus.
That is the plain text. That plain text answers your question. Nothing you’ve said demonstrates I’m wrong. Nada.
How can an unbelieving person believe in their heart and confess with their mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and God has raised Him from the dead? Without faith, how can a person believe and confess?
Those are tantalizing questions that simply do not alter what the plain text says. Paul has written what people can do to result in being saved, confessing and believing, and the substance of what is confessed to and the substance of what they believe in, are those acts undertaken by Jesus and God that resulted in salvation such that salvation comes from God and Jesus and what they did.
Otherwise, your queries are more of the same, a continued direction of ignoring the plain text or distracting from it with queries or seeking to change what Paul said in the plain text.
The issue is you cannot accept what the plain text verse says.
And verse 9 and 10 are related. “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.”
Verse 10 has the person, like verse 9,
doing something, which is the “person believes” and the person “confesses,” and “resulting in righteousness” and “resulting in salvation.”
And again, the
substance of what they the “
person believes” and the substance of what the person “confesses” is of
the acts of salvation undertaken by God and Jesus, such that the salvation is from God and Jesus.
So, again, I answered your question. “
Is Christ's sacrifice and work something that lets us, if we choose, cross over to God?”
I answered your question with verses from the Bible. The verses of the Bible very clearly say yes.
Unless, of course, Romans 10:9-10 Paul isn’t writing of what actions people can “choose” to do, but rather Paul is writing of actions people are forced, coerced, made to do. But compulsion isn’t suggested in the verses of 9 or 10, which show what people can “choose” to do to result in salvation and righteousness, “believe” and “confess.”
And the substance of their “beleif” and “confession” is of what God and Jesus did to result in righteousness and result in salvation.