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Old 03-04-2009, 09:26 PM
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It's not all that complicated.
1 John 5:10-13 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

It is Jesus that assures our salvation, but the Bible gives us all the assurance we need: do you believe on the Son of God? Then rest assured. Worrying about whether or not you've met someone's formula of repentance or baptism or whatever is just corruption from "the simplicity that is in Christ." (2Co 11:3)

And this idea that "if you're not ready to repent you're not ready to be saved" smacks of works-based salvation, or at least begs the question of how you define repentance. For us now, it's belief first, everything else after.
Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,