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Does Confessing Jesus as Lord truly save you as Paul taught in Romans 10:8-9?

Jun 25, 2022

Video Description

Paul teaches in Romans 10:8-9 that “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe God raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.” We ask whether this is true when compared to Jesus’ teachings. Is it true when compared also to Paul’s own teachings elsewhere in Romans?

First, we address that Jesus teaches in Matt 7:21-23 that “many who call me Lord, Lord shall not enter the kingdom of heaven,’ and these are ones who could do “signs and wonders” in Jesus’ name, and cast out demons in Jesus’ name, and so on, but Jesus says he will tell them, “I never knew you, you workers of anomia.” Anomia can be translated as lawlessness or iniquity, but it also means “apostasy.”

Apostasy is a crime in Deut 13:1-10 for false prophets who can work “signs and wonders” but also try to “seduce” God’s people from “following the Law”—they teach "apostasy" (which at that point meant teaching primarily against the Ten Commandments.) In the Greek Septuagint of 257 BC for verse 10 of Deut. 13 the word is “apostesai”-- a form of the word for “apostasy” – the same word in Matthew 7::23. We screenshot authoritative sources of a Greek Septuagint with English parallel translations in this vide.

Thus, false prophets or professors in Jesus who work “anomia” – apostasy – are in the same boat.

We discuss Paul's seeming self-contradiction in Romans 2:7 – that more than a confession of Jesus is necessary, where Paul says “To those who endure patiently in good works seek for glory and immortality – eternal life; but to those who are contentious, obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, tribulation and anguish upon every soul that does evil.”

William Paley, a famous theologian from the early 1800s, says Romans 2:7 contradicts Romans 10:8-9 but agrees with Jesus, and Paley urges us to listen to Jesus' unmistakeable words. We screenshot his work to prove this point.

We also discuss why Paul could cast out demons in Jesus’ name in Acts 16:18, but not the Vagabond Jews in Acts 19:13-16 when they used the “name of Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

 

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