The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Dear Catholic, Friend

Your answer is a reductio absurdum. On the surface, Paul's statement is true, of course. But certainly, no student of the Bible would ever make that statement the final basis for salvation when ALL of Paul's and the other inspired writers' statements are taken together, aka: "The Analogy of Faith", i.e., comparing Scripture with Scripture. The point is, when one takes that passage, which is pregnant with meaning, and expands it by all the other statements made in Scripture, the meaning becomes far more than a simply confession of propositional statements of fact concerning the Lordship of Christ and His resurrection. This is classically known as "Sandemanianism", aka: "Easy Believism".

Unfortunately, this is the current "fad" in most Evan-jelly-cal churches. It amounts to nothing more than a magical/mystical profession of certain truths "Assentia" which result in a spiritual change of status before God. Even the demons professed as much yet I seriously doubt you would say that they were "saved". They were even more privy to the identity of Christ and that God/the Spirit/and Christ Himself raised Him from the dead. (cf. Jam 2:19; Jh 2:23-25; 8:30ff, et al) Taking your "logic" one would have to include Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses as true Christians, for they also profess to believe that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead. Get my drift, Snowbank? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/Ponder.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,