Any Non-Baptist Christians here?

More like play every position...

 

I can see this now. Our friend gets to heaven and God says: " You missed being with the SDA folks and the JW's - you lose! The down elevator is over there, - take the second right, go straight, and it will be at the end of the hall".

 

Good thing God saves by grace and not by works.

 

Then why do the scriptures say we will be judged on what we have done?

 

How did we build upon the foundation of Christ Jesus, Adonia? Our role in heaven may be established by the faithful works God gave us to do. But, even if we built with wood, hay and stubble, we still enter by God's grace.

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Thank God we are saved by grace, not by works.

 

I didn't see the word "grace" anywhere in that passage, though I do believe in the concept of grace that God imparts upon us. You passage describes what we have come to decide is a "purgation" process.

 

Let me help you.

Ephesians 2:4-9 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

 

So why didn't you post the correct passage concerning grace before?

 

Its does get interesting when one become a Calvinistic Baptist, as then we come into contact tensions between Baptists such as Dispy cal wing of Dr MacArthur, Covenant Premils like myself, and Reformed Baptists themselves. I do like to use the 1689 Baptist Confession to read thru, but do not hold it all as being accurate and true as Reformed would, as have issue with papacy as Antichrist for example!
Also, tend to be freerer on worship them RB brethren, as I see it more that we are free to worship God in ways and styles not prohibited in Bible, not in jsut exact way allowed there!

 

I used to be Eastern Orthodox. Now I consider myself just a follower of Jesus, a New Testament Christian looking for a New Testament church. My soteriology is still EOC, as that is NT Christianity, but I have abandoned EOC ecclesiology, infant baptism/sacraments, as these are definitely not NT.

 

Judged as to eternal rewards or loss, not as to salvation!

 

Nope, as that happens to all Christians, as after physical death, right then into heaven!

 

Welcome to being a Baptist now, as you are free to choose what ever flavor suites you best!

 

Not officially a Baptist yet, as I have not joined a local church yet, but I have been attending one.

 

Yeah, that's not what the Bible (KJB) teaches. At all.

 

Does the Greek Church hold with Rome on sacramental grace in Baptism, Communion, etc?

 

We do know that the Church not under the sabbath, nor OT dietary rules and regulations!

 

Yes, of course they do. These are basic tenets of the Christian faith.

---> Greek Archdiocese of America

 

What do you think baptize means in the Greek language?