Is Belief The Only Condition Of Salvation?

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 is from people who disagree with him and argue his points. …”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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