You keep forgetting a word in your salvation scenario, repent.
Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins ; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
"Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord ;
"Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,
Note that the word sins is plural not singular.
When they heard this, they quieted down and glorified God, saying, "Well then, God has granted to the Gentiles also the repentance that leads to life."
For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth,
and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
May the great corn mother watch your Cherokee brothers.
And you keep forgetting:
Ephesians 2:8-10 (NASB)
8 For
by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
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not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
Is not repentance a Good Work? Then Repentance is a BI-PRODUCT characteristic of that Genuine Salvation that is BY GRACE ALONE, and not something we can do to save ourselves, or to appease GOD for our sins. Was Repentence required in the LAW? YES it was:
Ezekiel 18:30 (ESV)
30 “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God.
Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Galatians 5:4 (HCSB)
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You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ;
you have fallen from grace.
Galatians 2:16 (NKJV)
16
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but
by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law;
for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. And as I stated before, having faith in the Creator is having faith in Jesus Christ, because HE IS THE CREATOR. Of that we HAVE NO DOUBT, because He said so in Col. 1:16; PLUS He proved He was the Creator in front of more than thousand times the witnesses required by Roman Law, when HE fed the 5000, and the 4000, as HE created more fish and loaves repeatedly until everyone had their fill.
Yes, I do believe we have a Stalemate.
