All A Sinner Has To Do To Be Saved Is Believe In Jesus?

Anton Bergen of Winnipeg, Manitoba wrote regarding one of my previous Bible Crossfire SiriusXM radio programs: “So my friend Patrick Donahue actually believes that unless you’re baptized, you can’t be saved, you can’t get to heaven. What say you, my Facebook friends, do you agree with Patrick? I do not, and I’m willing to stand alone on this. … Why do I keep pointing this out? Patrick has a megaphone, a half hour program on satellite radio with possibly millions of people tuned in on Sunday nights. … Most of the calls he gets are from people who disagree with him …”

Anton told me passages like John 3:16 teach all we have to do to be saved/forgiven from our sins is believe in Jesus. But I would like to ask Anton to answer the following questions from the scriptures supplied:

• Does a believer in Jesus have to repent to be saved (Luke 13:3)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to believe in the resurrection of Christ to be saved (Rom 10:9)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to confess Christ to be saved (Rom 10:9)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to call on the name of the Lord to be saved (Rom 10:13-14)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to be willing to forgive others to be forgiven himself (Matt 6:14-15)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to believe in God the Father to be saved (John 5:24, Hebrews 11:6)?

• Does a believer in Jesus have to love God/Christ to be saved (I Cor 16:22, Gal 5:6, James 1:12b)?

I don’t think my friend Anton really believes all a sinner has to do to be saved is believe in Jesus. How could he deny all of the above verses proving otherwise?

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