As part of my lenten reading I searched and found 11 ways to be "Saved" by God in the New Testament (for clarity sake, to be saved means to be made victiorious-Heb, and to be made whole-Grk).
By judging ourselves - 1 Cor 11:31.
For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
By confessing our sins and being absolved - Jn 10:23, 20: 19-23.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us... So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you (referring to the apostles and thus the successors to the apostolic office) forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”
By belief in Christ and baptism into Him - Mk 16:16.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
By receiving the Eucharist - Jn 6:54.
Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
By Hearing God’s word and believing those words - Jn 5:24.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
By the faithfulness of others - Mark 2:3-5.
Then they came to Him, bringing a paralytic who was carried by four men. And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
By loving and doing what Christ instructed - Jn 14: 21.
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
By a working (incarnate) faith and not by faith alone - Jam 2:24
You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
By doing what God’s has given us as therapy (His Commands/precepts/ways, &c…) -Mat 19:16
Now behold, one came and said to Him,do that I may have eternal life?” So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
By believing Christ and publicly confessing him to be the Lord - Rom 10:9
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
By the loving mercy of God - Eph 2:4.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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