Q: Does the Bible state Word and Sacrament are salvific?
A: No
Sacramentalism: A sacrament is deemed a sacred ritual act or ceremony that has a spiritual effect and is obtained through the intercession of the Church (i.e., Priest). Sacramentalists teach that sacramentals surround the sacraments like a wreath and extend them into the everyday life of Christians.
Sacerdotalism: The belief that priests act as mediators between God and humans. (Cf. 1Tim. 2:5)
Faith:
Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of God.
John 6:52 ff. Catholics = transubstantiation
Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
God's Election:
Romans 8:29-30 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Not sufficient to say, "That's what the Bible teaches," sans whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27)
Parable of Soils: Matthew 13:23
John 6:37 All the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
John 6:44 No man can come to me, unless the Father who hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice . . ..
John 15:16 you did not choose me
God's Protection:
Son:
John 6:39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose none of all that he has given me, but raise him up on the last day.
John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Father:
John 10:29 No one can pluck you out of the Father's hand
John 10:30 I and the Father are one.
Holy Spirit:
Ephesians 4:30
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Repentance:
What does the Bible teach about the relationship between salvation and repentance? First, it teaches that repentance is essential to salvation. One cannot truly believe unless he repents, and one cannot truly repent unless he believes. Repentance and faith are two sides of the same coin (but they are not synonymous terms). Acts 11:18and 2 Peter 3:9 are two of the many verses that teach that repentance is necessary for salvation. Perhaps 2 Timothy 2:25 best sums up the relationship between repentance and saving faith when it speaks of "repentance to the acknowledging of the truth" (see also Acts 20:21).
Second, the Greek word for repentance (metanoia) means "to have another mind," but it cannot properly be defined to exclude a sense of hatred of and penitence for sin. The biblical concept of repentance involves far more than merely a casual change of thinking. Biblically, a person who repents does not continue willfully in sin. Repentance is a turning from sin, and it always results in changed behavior (Luke 3:8). While sorrow from sin is not equivalent to repentance, it is certainly an element of scriptural repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10).
Martin Luther describes repentance this way:
Now this is the thunderbolt of God, by means of which he destroys both the open sinner and the false saint and allows no one to be right…this is not “active contrition,” a contrived remorse, but “passive contrition,” true affliction of the heart, suffering, and the pain of death. (Martin Luther, “The Smalcald Articles” in Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings [Fortress Press, 2012], 352)
Hebrews 6:
https://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/spiritual-life/falling-away-a-study-of-hebrews-6/
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