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Hi Mike:
"Mike Rhodes" wrote in message
news:ABA12401-C148-736D-262E-7F05FC26D571@srcbs.org...
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:02:02 +0000 (UTC), "Gary"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"entropy" wrote in message
> >news:06DE6C6E-D0EE-BA8F-46D0-3C2FEBF5EAFF@srcbs.org...
> >> gkmcnees@comcast.net wrote...
>
> >> > One must not only read the Bible, one must believe it to be saved.
> >>
> >> That is not Scriptural. What the Bible says is that belief in Christ
> >> is saving, not belief in the Bible per se.
> >>
> >> John 3:16
> >
> >I agree.
> >
> >But we need to realize that "salvation" is used in more than one way
> >in Scripture. One can be "saved" from shipwreck, saved from sickness,
> >saved from physical death, saved from all kinds of error, and other
things.
> >
> >What John 3:16 refers to is salvation from sin.
> >
> >If people believe Scripture they are saved from all sorts of error.
> >
> >Further, as Christ said,
> >John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he
wrote
> >of me.
> >
> >Thus we see that a believing of the Bible in general has some
relationship
> >to
> >believing in Christ and what He said.
> >
> >Gary
> >
>
> Is it too much to press the discussion from "believing in Christ" to
> "believing in who Christ actually is"? And "what He said" to '"what
> Christ actually said"?

What "believing in Christ" means is explained quite clearly in:


John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked
of him, and he would have given thee living water.

> And hear His commandments and do them. (John 14:21-26)

All His commandments to just anyone?
Have you:

Luke 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest
thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

AND:

Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also,
he cannot be my disciple.

Please tell me if you have obeyed these commands.

> Since the Holy Spirit is involved, then we are not so excused from
> error in interpretation in reading someone else's words; who they
> thought Christ is, or wanted Him to be.
> --

The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Scriptures so that we
can be assured that they correctly wrote what He said.

Gary






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