It’s a call to new life, rather than a gift of new life. The cross says, “Be better.”. For those who deny original sin, the cross is about making (kinda) good people better. In the traditional understanding, the cross is about making dead people live. I need God to swoop in and change me and save me himself.
To summarize Jesus’s teaching in Matthew 28:19, we can say that baptism is the first item on Jesus’s list of “Everything I Have Commanded You.” Why should you get baptized? Because if you consider yourself a follower of Jesus, then, after repenting and believing (Mark 1:15), the first formal, public act of following that Jesus requires
Yes, of course, we do. Even if people tend to think that religious tolerance is accepting what others believe to be true, it is our duty to present the Scripture as the truth — as Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” ( John 14:6 ).

We're told that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." 21. God does not force us to believe in him, though he could. Instead, he has provided sufficient proof of his existence for us to willingly respond to him.

We should follow Jesus because He is the Lord of authority, the Lord of creation, the Lord of prophecy, and the Lord of judgment. 5. Because Jesus is the Lord of salvation, we must follow Him. Jesus came the first time offering peace, and the offer stands until He comes again for judgment. . 372 390 44 282 377 317 347 149

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