Confession to be Saved

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Now, we tried to argue this gentleman that said that there's multiple ways of salvation, that not only doing the will of God is one way of abiding with Christ.
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We tried to explain to him that someone who already is a believer doesn't need to know how to get saved, because he already is saved.
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He went on, he argued that in Romans, it says this, and he was quoting
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Romans 10, 13. For whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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And he said, see, this is a second way of salvation, because here it says whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
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Now, looking at the context here, this actually is dealing with regeneration, where the previous verse that he came up with in 1
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John 2, 17 is dealing with sanctification. This passage actually deals with regeneration.
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And in this passage, what you end up seeing is that he ends up arguing, here Paul argues, that if we call on the name of the
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Lord, we will be saved. This is the process when someone comes to repentance. What do they do?
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They call upon the name of the Lord. In fact, if you look at the passage and what it says in its context, is that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is
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God, or Lord, and shall believe in your heart that he's risen from the dead, you will be saved.
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This is what you must believe to be saved. This is regeneration. This is acknowledging that we're sinners, that Jesus is the
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Lord, God Almighty, that we depend on him, and we have to call out on him, believing what he did in our stead.
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