Featured Saved Without Knowing the Resurrection?

I already gave you an explicit statement from Acts where Paul preached the gospel by saying that Jesus was buried:

Acts 13:29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

No, Paul does mention the burial in Romans:

Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Your claim about Paul's not mentioning the burial or witnesses in Galatians does not establish that we should not do so, and it does not prove anything about testifying to those truths in evangelism as being non-essential. First Corinthians 15:3-5 categorically establishes that both the burial and the appearances are part of the gospel message.

 

No, you are arguing from silence without any evidence from Scripture that proves that Acts 17 is a comprehensive record of all that Paul said in that evangelistic encounter. You, therefore, do not have any evidence to prove what Paul did not testify to in Athens.

I do not need any additional evidence. The four Gospels all state all 4 truths explicitly. 1 Cor. 15 and Acts 13 together prove that Paul testified to all 4 truths when he preached the gospel.

Again, Christ commissioned them to be witnesses of His resurrection (Luke 24:48; Acts 1:8, 22). They did so by telling people that they saw, heard, touched, ate and drank with the risen Christ, etc. (Matt. 28; Mark 16; Luke 24; John 20-21; Acts 2:32; 3:15; 5:32; 10:39-41; 13:31; 22:6-10; 26:12-18; 1 Cor. 15:3-8).

 

No, as Paul stated under inspiration one must believe Jesus died in our place as our sin bearer, and was resurrected!

 

"that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;"

 

I believe Paul in reality was saved before he left Jerusalem yet in unbelief.

And I believe God the Father, through Jesus the Son of God called Paul and through the power of the Spirit of Truth, translated Paul out of unbelief unto belief.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. Gal 1:15-17

How long was Paul in Arabia and what did he learn while there?

Gal 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

 

I am quite certain that unless Christ has paid the price in full for someone's sins, he cannot be saved, since God could not then be just and the justifier of the one who believes in Jesus.
Whether one has to believe that in order to be saved is a different question, and one I leave to the Almighty.

 

John,
You asked

I personally call substitutional atonement a bare minimum, but you will know that various people on this board believe that Christ died in some sense 'for' their sins without believing in Penal Substitution. You may believe that those people are all going to hell, but I prefer to leave that judgment to God.

 

Fair enough. I refer you to my various answers on this thread. Our content should be as full as we can make it, but God will decide what is the minimum one has to believe to be saved.

 

No, it would not at all be strange for someone to think in his mind that Christ died but then experienced the vile, pagan abomination of cremation instead of being buried. That would especially be true in certain countries, especially the one where you ministered for many years.

Furthermore, nonsense about a "spiritual" resurrection is an entirely possible notion for someone to entertain.

More importantly than evaluating your experience in life is to handle the Bible correctly. Concerning when the apostle Paul preached the gospel to the Corinthians, the gospel by which they were saved, does the Scripture teach that he proclaimed to them the burial of Christ and His appearances or not?

 

Let me ask.

Is it one's belief, that saves one?

Or; Is one saved by the blood [death] and resurrection [life again] of Jesus Christ and then called by God unto belief?

but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, John 10:26
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way; -----LOST ----- Need to be saved.
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 1 Cor 15;1-4

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice [called], and I know them [give them the Holy Spirit], and they follow me [Believe on me]:

Romans 5:9,10 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

I just had a thought, Let me know what you think about my thought.

You are in Japan preaching the gospel. Some believe and others do not believe. Now I ask are those hearing the gospel choosing of themselves to believe or is the following taking place?

YLT - Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,
NIV - Simon[fn] has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles.

Why do some become, of belief?