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**John said it best in 3:16.**

That verse is the condensed summation of what the Lord had been teaching to Nicodemas in the previous 13 verses.

“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:5

Some argue that the ‘water’ is natural birth, but Jesus didn’t say in the next verse that ‘that which is born of water is flesh’. It’s obvious he’s refering to baptism, as he commanded it in Matt. 28:19, and Mark 16:16.

In Luke 24:47, he commanded the disciples “that REPENTANCE and REMISSION of SINS should be preached in his NAME among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. This command was first instituted in Acts 2:38, for there Peter commanded the convicted souls to “..REPENT, and be BAPTIZED EVERY ONE of you in the NAME of JESUS CHRIST for the REMISSION of SINS, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Back to John “the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou HEAREST the SOUND thereof, but CANST NOT TELL whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is EVERY ONE the is born of the Spirit.” 3:8

Paul writing “To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be SAINTS...” Rom. 1:7. (these folks were already born again)

Paul reminds them of their baptism in chp 6, vrs 3 and 4. and tells them in vrs 17 “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have OBEYED from the heart that form of DOCTRINE which was delivered you.”

So when blind leaders of the blind try to build a ‘believe only’ doctrine from Rom. 10, they are ignorant that Paul wrote that to people that were already born again (see chp 1:7 again).

The Lord prayed unto the Father in John 17, saying in vrs 17, “I have given them thy word..” and vrs 20, “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through THEIR word;...”.

There’s an abundance of ‘believeing in Jesus’, but a great sidestepping of his commands.

If you don’t believe his words, you don’t believe as the scriptures hath said.