If You're Not Baptized Will You Go to Heaven? (according to Romans 10:9)

According to Romans 10:9 that says, "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." However, if that was the only reference to salvation then this would not be much of a 'stump question. The truth is theology/doctrine was never intended to be based on one stand-alone verse. The continual thread thru the Bible is God wanting a relationship with his creation (you). The reason God "wants" a relationship with us, is because mankind has been seperated from him. We don't naturally have a relationship with God. So something needs to take place. That something is actually a someone, -Jesus. The only way anyone comes to a relationship with God is thru is son Jesus.

Now that brings us to our stump question, 'if you are not baptized will you go to heaven? -according to Romans 10:9' well it appears you will. Of course according to Leviticus 19:27, i "can't cut the hair at the sides of my head or sides of my beard" That verse alone points out a command, but pinched out of context it becomes a stepping stone for a whole line of doctrine.

The right question to ask should be something like, "What must I do to be saved/go to Heaven?" Jesus was talking to his disciples in John 6:26-29, "Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.

Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?

Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

Jesus told his disciples don't work/seek out the food that spoils (representing passing pleasures of this world), but work/seek out 'food that endures to eternal life.' So the discples then ask the right question, 'What must we do to do the works God requires?" They are asking, what do we do to have eternal life? Jesus replies, 'believe...' 'believe in the one he [God] has sent (that's Jesus)'.

When you hear the gospel (story of Jesus) and understand that you are a sinner seperated from God (i.e. not going to heaven) and you want to go to heaven and be in a right relationship with God, you don't ask, "Do i have to do this to be saved?" you ask, "What must id do to do the works God requires?" What all can i do to be saved? Jesus says believe in me, and based upon that belief, you want to repent from living your life 'your way' you confess/tell others Jesus is the Lord over your ife and you are baptized for the forgiveness of your sins.

That's it. But, if you don't believe this whole claim Jesus makes about being the Savior and you just go thru the 'outside actions' because someone or some church says this is what you do to be saved, you aren't saved. Mark 16:16 says, "Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."

So don't ask, "If i'm not" or "Do I have to?" Ask with anticipation and excitement, "What must I do to be saved?"