tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post7380918322964803159..comments2024-03-27T18:18:11.525-06:00Comments on American Creation: God of the Bible, God of the FoundingBrad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-56775165104101543642013-08-14T21:28:54.124-06:002013-08-14T21:28:54.124-06:00Steve, thanks for stopping by. Salvation--soterio...Steve, thanks for stopping by. Salvation--soteriology--is above our pay grade at this history blog, and we mostly agree that the Founders decided not to let the question of heaven divide us here on earth.<br /><br />Their wisest decision of all, IMO. As John Locke put it, our government can't save our souls anyway. Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-54388509896026767872013-08-14T08:56:21.227-06:002013-08-14T08:56:21.227-06:00INCLUSIVE SALVATION
Who are those who are include...INCLUSIVE SALVATION<br /><br />Who are those who are included in salvation? All men who believe and obey what the apostle Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost are saved. It does not make any difference what denominational name is written on the church building where you worship, if you obey the gospel preached by Peter, then, you are saved, you are a member of the Lord's church, you are part of the church of Christ, you a member of the body of Christ, you are a Christian.<br /><br />What did Peter preach?<br />1. Peter preached that Jesus was a miracle worker. (Acts 2:22)<br />2. Peter preached that Jesus was resurrected from the dead by God the Father.(Acts 2:24-35)<br />3. Peter preached that Jesus was both Lord and Christ.(Acts 2:36)<br />When the three thousand believe Peter, they asked "What shall we do?"(Acts 2:37)<br />4. Peter told them to repent and be baptized in order to have their sins forgiven.(Acts 2:38)<br /><br />This is the same message Jesus preached. (Mark 16:16 "He who believes and is baptized will be saved....)<br /><br />THE TERMS FOR PARDON ARE: Faith-John 3:16, Repentance-Acts 2:38, Confession-Romans 10:9-10, Baptism (immersion in water) 1 Peter 3:21<br /><br />All who meet the terms for pardon are saved regardless of the denominational name on the church building. <br /><br /><br />YOU ARE INVITED TO FOLLOW MY CHRISTIAN BLOG. Google search >>>steve finnell a christian viewSteve Finnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12863026367048527526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-48520093000195181552013-08-13T22:53:42.901-06:002013-08-13T22:53:42.901-06:00Spot on, Fortenberg. And let's not forget the...Spot on, Fortenberg. And let's not forget the 1819 letter to Zionist Mordecai Noah from the Joe Biden of the American Founding, John Adams:<br /><br /><i>"I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation. For as I believe the most enlightened men of it have participated in the amelioration of the philosophy of the age, once restored to an independent government & no longer persecuted they would soon wear away some of the asperities and peculiarities of their character [and] possibly in time become liberal unitarian Christians for your Jehovah is our Jehovah & your God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob is our God."</i><br /><br />John Adams, the biggest twit of his generation, God love him.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-52604230398905656632013-08-13T20:25:06.166-06:002013-08-13T20:25:06.166-06:00If you were to view "Judeo-Christian" as...If you were to view "Judeo-Christian" as being synonymous to "Christian Jew," then you could trace that concept back to at least the early eighteenth century with the famous <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7RgtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1" rel="nofollow">Dialogue Between Philalethes a Christian Deist, and Theophanes a Christian Jew</a>.<br /><br />For an additional quote in support of your position, you could add <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=kI08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA609" rel="nofollow">this one</a> from John Adams:<br /><br /><i>I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise, almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.</i>Bill Fortenberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14205053444988720146noreply@blogger.com