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Originally Posted by Ohio
Every believer I know in the LC's, including all the posters here, have beliefs concerning salvation which correspond with fundamental, evangelical Christianity. It's nothing about LSM "umbrellas" or your twisting of the Greek word "pisteuo," which means "to believe, to be persuaded of, to place confidence in, to trust, to have reliance upon, and not mere credence." (Vine.) In this regard, to believe the good news is to obey the message from God to believe in Jesus' sacrifice for our sins.
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Not every evangelical adheres to dispensational free grace theology, there are plenty that don't. Well many focus solely on the gospel if they do adhere to free grace for a reason because if you can get anyone to say the sinner's prayer *boom* they're saved. However Paul balanced his gospel preaching with a desperate care for the churches. He was worried that many would forfeit their salvation by falling away. He was even worried about doing all the work he did in vain!
Philippians 2:16
holding fast to the word of life,
so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Did you know that Paul also warned the Corinthians believers about
believing in vain?
1 Corinthians 15:2
By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have
believed in vain.
What do you think it means to
believe in vain? What are the obvious consequences of believing in Jesus in vain?
All I'm saying is that we have to both repent and believe, it's difficult to understand how you can read God's word with faithful exegesis and not come to that conclusion.