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personal and freely given surrender to that truth (Acts 2:21). Thomas' faith was not
invalidated by seeing Jesus (John 20:27, 29) and neither is that of anybody else that
is exposed to the truth in that way (John 6:40).

In other words you must not just believe that Christ is generically saviour and
potentially your saviour but that he is your personal saviour which is to chose to
worship him as your Lord (Phil 2:10-11). The personal free-will invitation to the
Lord to be your Lord is required (Acts 2:21). God's call (John 6:44) is not fulfilled
until Man calls back in invitation and surrender (John 6:40, 14:6, Acts 2:21). It is
impossible to have Christ as Saviour but not as Lord (Mat 22:43-45, 24:42, Mark
12:36-37, Luke 2:11, 20:41-42), or vice versa (1 Cor 12:3), the two are inseparable
and continually co-existent for Chrtistians. A Christian's is, through the operation
of the Holy Ghost within him, continually acknowledging the Lordship of Christ
(Luke 2:11, Rom 8:26, Phil 2:11, 1 John 3:9).

The minimal and sufficient act to become a Christian is to call upon the Lord (Mat
12:37, Acts 2:21, Rom 10:13).

Love & Faith & Salvation

Salvation can not be received by a person believing in Love as God as best they
can (Jam 2:19, 1 John 4:10), rather the person must believe that his individual
eternal life is to be provided to him by Love in the form of a specific person, Jesus
Christ (John 14:1, 6, 1 John 4:8, 10). It can only be accessed by a specifically
Christ-oriented act, that of faith in and confession of, or call upon, the person of
Christ (John 14:1, 6, Acts 2:21, 36, Rom 10:9, Phil 2:10-11). The fact that Christ
is, as God, Love does not alter the fact that to receive salvation from this God the
faith and confession must be in and of the name of the Lord (Acts 2:21; Rom 10:9,
Phil 2:10-11). In the context of what is necessary for salvation the name of this
Lord is that of Jesus (Rom 10:9) or Christ (Acts 2:21, 36).

God has set Himself the task of bringing all recalcitrant spirits and souls (Rom
3:10) into an eternity of fellowship with Jesus Christ having Jesus Christ as their
Lord (I Cor 12:3, Phil 2:11). He achieves this task by exposing each spirit and soul,
as is necessary, to experiences of suffering and blessing (Rom 8:28). For example,
a person can be born again into a different life (Mal 4:5, Mat 11:14, John3: 3, 7) on
quite possibly a different world (Heb 1:2). He can experience the opposite of his
life's experience for better or worse after death (Luke 16:19-31). As God is beyond
time (Rev 10:6) he can even make it so that, say, the torturer and the tortured are
the same person at the same time unbeknown to their conscious minds at the time