Friday, February 24, 2012

Salvation Is Not Either ... Or

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

There is need of both, of faith true and firm and of confession made with confidence, so that the heart may be adorned with the certainty of faith and the tongue shine forth by boldly proclaiming the truth.

Theodoret of Cyrus, "The Letter to the Romans" on Romans 10:9-10

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