Consider the Exodus. What did the Israelites do to receive their deliverance from slavery? In obedience to God's instruction, the morning after Passover, they took a long walk to the sea. That was a lot of work, was it not? What would have happened if God had not performed a miracle in making a path through the sea - something they could not do which resulted in their deliverance/"salvation"? They would have been hauled back into slavery. So it is clear that their work, alone, would have been ineffectual in saving them. If God had intended to tell a story about freedom without the necessity of work, he could have had the "death angel" kill ALL the Egyptians easily enough. That would have freed them from slavery without any work on their part. But he didn't - he told them to walk. The same can be said for crossing the sea. When God opened up a path, he told them to walk - which was work. Many believe that the Israelites slavery in Egypt symbolizes slavery to sin for us today. If slavery to Egypt symbolizes slavery to sin, then what might their departure from Egypt symbolize for us today? I suggest that it represents our departure from sin, or repentance. 1 Cor 10 completes the picture with Paul informing us that they were "baptized into Moses" by crossing the sea - thus securing their freedom from slavery to Egypt. This phrase "baptized into Moses" has the same structure as “baptized into Jesus” - a phrase which Paul never explains apart from the analogy with 1 Cor 10, but uses in explanation of other ideas, as in Rom 6:3 and Gal 3:27. So it appears that God has created a story of repentance feeding directly into baptism as being salvific from the power of sin. Observe that both their departure from Egypt and sea crossing required work, yet the work performed by the people was wholly ineffectual without the miracle of God. So in this illustration you can see that they were not "saved by works," just as Eph 2:9 teaches, - yet they had to work to receive the salvation provided by God while God gets 100% of the credit for His work which was decisive in their deliverance. I think we could say they were saved "through works" and not "by works" which follows from the fact that people are saved "through faith" (Eph 2:8) and not "by faith." In short, it is obedience to God, which is faith expressed through the works repentance and baptism, through which we receive God’s miraculous intervention in saving us from the power of sin.
Baptism is symbolic. It's showing what has happened to you. It's not something actually happening to you. Only Jesus saves. Charles the Third will not become King at his coronation. He became King when his mother - Queen Elizabeth the Second - died. You don't become a Christian when you are baptized (or baptised). A coronation for William or George would be nonsense as neither of them are King.
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Consider the Exodus. What did the Israelites do to receive their deliverance from slavery? In obedience to God's instruction, the morning after Passover, they took a long walk to the sea. That was a lot of work, was it not? What would have happened if God had not performed a miracle in making a path through the sea - something they could not do which resulted in their deliverance/"salvation"? They would have been hauled back into slavery. So it is clear that their work, alone, would have been ineffectual in saving them. If God had intended to tell a story about freedom without the necessity of work, he could have had the "death angel" kill ALL the Egyptians easily enough. That would have freed them from slavery without any work on their part. But he didn't - he told them to walk. The same can be said for crossing the sea. When God opened up a path, he told them to walk - which was work. Many believe that the Israelites slavery in Egypt symbolizes slavery to sin for us today. If slavery to Egypt symbolizes slavery to sin, then what might their departure from Egypt symbolize for us today? I suggest that it represents our departure from sin, or repentance. 1 Cor 10 completes the picture with Paul informing us that they were "baptized into Moses" by crossing the sea - thus securing their freedom from slavery to Egypt. This phrase "baptized into Moses" has the same structure as “baptized into Jesus” - a phrase which Paul never explains apart from the analogy with 1 Cor 10, but uses in explanation of other ideas, as in Rom 6:3 and Gal 3:27. So it appears that God has created a story of repentance feeding directly into baptism as being salvific from the power of sin. Observe that both their departure from Egypt and sea crossing required work, yet the work performed by the people was wholly ineffectual without the miracle of God. So in this illustration you can see that they were not "saved by works," just as Eph 2:9 teaches, - yet they had to work to receive the salvation provided by God while God gets 100% of the credit for His work which was decisive in their deliverance. I think we could say they were saved "through works" and not "by works" which follows from the fact that people are saved "through faith" (Eph 2:8) and not "by faith." In short, it is obedience to God, which is faith expressed through the works repentance and baptism, through which we receive God’s miraculous intervention in saving us from the power of sin.
Baptism is symbolic. It's showing what has happened to you. It's not something actually happening to you. Only Jesus saves.
Charles the Third will not become King at his coronation. He became King when his mother - Queen Elizabeth the Second - died. You don't become a Christian when you are baptized (or baptised).
A coronation for William or George would be nonsense as neither of them are King.