In a home Bible class, I was told, “All you have to do, to be saved, is to keep the Ten Commandments!” I looked at the lady and said, “You do not believe that.” She responded, “Yes I do!”<\/p>\n
I posed a question, “Must one believe in Jesus to be saved?” The lady of the house said, “You know one must believe in Jesus to be saved.” I then made my point. The Ten Commandments do not contain a belief in Jesus! A belief in Jesus is not found anywhere in the Ten Commandments. If keeping the Ten Commandments could save one, he could be saved without a belief in Jesus Christ. That is a false position!<\/p>\n
Jesus said in John 8:24: “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.<\/em>” One must believe in Jesus to be saved; but, the Ten Commandments do not demand a belief in Jesus. Now, if one does not believe in Jesus and is saved, then it may be possible to believe the Ten Commandments and be saved; but if one has to believe in Jesus to be saved, the Ten Commandments cannot save him! It does not demand a belief in Jesus.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Carl A. Allen In a home Bible class, I was told, “All you have to do, to be saved, is to keep the Ten Commandments!” I looked at the lady and said, “You do not believe that.” She responded, “Yes I do!” I posed a question, “Must one believe in Jesus to be saved?”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[47,176],"class_list":["post-29110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-salvation","tag-ten-commandments"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29105,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/what-about-the-ten-commandments\/","url_meta":{"origin":29110,"position":0},"title":"What about the Ten Commandments?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jerry Blount It seems a constant source of confusion among Christians to determine our relationship to the Ten Commandments. 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