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Confidence
Belief overview
Personal conversion and conscious faith
Many Protestant traditions emphasize a conscious personal response to the gospel.
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Neutral
What it is: Many Protestant currents emphasize the need for a personal response to the gospel, often described as conversion, new birth, or conscious faith.
How the religion understands it: This emphasis may appear in different forms in confessional, revivalist, pietist, and evangelical traditions. In general, it presupposes personal appropriation of faith and not merely sociocultural belonging to the Church.
Context: The language of conversion gained special visibility in pietist, revivalist, evangelical, and Pentecostal movements, but it has broader roots within Protestantism.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Acts 16:30-31
Believe in the Lord Jesus.
Reference: Acts 16:30-31.
Content: The apostolic answer to the jailer emphasizes faith in the Lord Jesus for salvation.
Use in debate: It is widely used in Protestant contexts of evangelistic proclamation.
John 3:3
Need for new birth.
Reference: John 3:3.
Content: Jesus speaks of the need to be born again or from above.
Use in debate: It is widely used in Protestant language about conversion and new life.
Romans 10:9-10
Confession and faith in the heart.
Reference: Romans 10:9-10.
Content: The text speaks of faith in the heart and confession with the mouth concerning Christ.
Use in debate: It is widely cited in Protestant contexts of evangelism and conversion.