Question about salvation: Why are people so easily duped into false doctrine? 1Timothy 4:16?

If you look at the new testament in context, it clearly shows how one is saved.


1st - the gospels were written while Jesus was alive, therefore no one was being saved through his death.


2nd - Jesus talks in John 3:1-7 about being born again of WATER and the SPIRIT and says no one can see the kingdom without this.


3rd - Jesus gives the keys of the Kingdom to Peter.


4th - Jesus dies and is raised from the dead


5th - In Acts 2 Peter uses those keys from Jesus and says


Acts 2:38-39 Peter replied, ';Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off鈥攆or all whom the Lord our God will call.';


Peter said this promise is for all whom the Lord our God will call.


6th - we see many examples throughout the book of Acts in which people are saved, including Paul's conversion on Acts 22:16 when he is told to be baptizedQuestion about salvation: Why are people so easily duped into false doctrine? 1Timothy 4:16?
I agree that that is the Plan of Salvation. I don't think it's a matter of being duped purposely, but look at it this way... if you know NOTHING about trigonometry, you are going to ask someone who claims to, right? They are only going to teach you what THEY know about it. It is YOUR job to research it and make sure you're being told right, or you may fail the test.Question about salvation: Why are people so easily duped into false doctrine? 1Timothy 4:16?
Ummm...yeah, that sounds like false doctrine all right.





Salvation does not come through baptism in of itself, but by Christ alone. Jesus said ';I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one enters the kingdom except through me.'; (John 14:6)





There is so much wrong with your question, I don't even know where to start.
I think you could answer that one, yourself, since you are just as duped, hook, line and sinker.
Jesus Christ became the Passover Lamb.


http://www.baptistpillar.com/bd0350.htm





The Bible is clear in the fact that it is only through faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His complete and perfect sacrifice, that alone is the way people are saved.





Peter reminds us of this when he says, ';Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold... But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:'; (1 Peter 1:18-19).





Washed in His Blood





There are some who believe that baptism washes away sins. This is not scriptural. The Bible says, ';Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood'; (Rev. 1:5).





For John says, ';If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin'; (1 John 1:7)





';For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.'; (John 3:16)
You need to get your facts straight:


The Gospels were not written until 100 to 150AD.


This was after the destruction of the Jewish Temple.


John was the latest one written, the Church Baptised.
It's very confusing to me that you wrote what you did after the main question.





And you tell a whopper after the question by saying that the Gospel was written while Jesus was alive, then saying that since this is true ( which it is not) that no one was being saved through his death. Bovine sactology.





What is your source for your statements. I don't expect a response, I'm just saying the you are not going to be able to intelligently display what it is that you are presenting unless you have some extremely vivid evidence!
Well, nothing new there! Everything you have said was accepted and embraced by every Christian on earth from apostolic times until a few hundred years ago, when the plague of denominationalism was released upon the earth. The doctrinal chaos that has ensued within Protestantism as a direct result of the false doctrine of sola scriptura has done more harm to Christianity than Islam ever could hope to do. But we know that the original Christian Church, the biblical ';pillar and foundation of truth'; continues in the fullness of truth, and will do so until the end of time, just as our Lord and Savior promised. We can only pray that those who have lost their way and are entrapped in the mire and confusion of denominationalism will find their way back to their roots, and know the richness of full and true Christianity, in the One true Church Christ founded for all mankind.