Sam's Schoolwork - Religion - Romans 10: 9 Response

Romans 10: 9 says "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (King James Version) Many people translate this like "If you speak about Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you'll be saved." Honestly, though, it means a little bit more than that, I think. In the bible, your tongue symbolizes your foot, or your walk with God. It isn't enough to say that he is, (The bible even says that the devils believe, and they tremble) but you actually have to walk with God and in God. Also, when it says that you must believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead for you, but that he also raised Him from the dead for the other guy, the one you don't like. God came to them too, so you really have no reason to complain about him. There was a guy in my church who preached that to get salvation, you have to go through a door. A door is created by having two vertical doorposts supporting a horizontal doorpost. He said that our relationship with God are the vertical posts, and if you have stable vertical beams, the horizontal post, a symbol of our relationship with others, will be stable. You can't have the horizontal beam floating in midair, can you. You need a good relationship with God, and then your interactions with others will be what God wants, and form the door to salvation.