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What Must I Do To Be Saved?

  

"WHAT GOD SAYS VS. WHAT MAN SAYS"

by Bill Crews

Man says: "The important thing is whether or not one loves God, not the keeping of commandments."

God says: "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous" (I Jn. 5:3).

Man says: "Thank God for the many churches so that man may find the one that is best suited for Him."

God says: "There is one body" (Eph. 4:4). "He is the head of the body, the church" (Col. 1:18).

Man says: "Join the church of your choice, but join a church."

God says: "And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved" (Acts 2:47). "Every plant, (religious) which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up" (Matt. 15:13). "...and that there be no divisions among you" (I Cor. 1:10).

Man says: "Each person should follow the way that seems right to them and that honesty and conscience direct."

God says: "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12). "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps" (Jer. 10:23).

Man says: "Faith only is a most wholesome doctrine and very full of comfort." "Ye see that by faith only a man is justified."

God says: "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only" (Jas. 2:24). "For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love" (Gal. 5:6).

Man says: "Baptism is not necessary to one's salvation."

God says: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved" (Mk. 16:16). "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:38).

Man says: "Baptism is an ordinance that can be administered by sprinkling or pouring on of water as well as by immersion in water."

God says: "We are buried with him by baptism into death" (Rom. 6:4). "They came unto a certain water: .... and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip" (Acts 8:36-39).

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