Easy Believism Is Wrong

I thought I would take a break from my A-Z blog challenge to talk about something that my Dad and I have been reading in our weekly Bible/ book study.  Easy believism says that if one accepts Christ as Savior, it's not necessary to embrace Him as Lord. Simply put, this is heresy!  Scripture says in Romans 10:9a, " that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. " Scripture doesn't lie folks! Jesus is Lord! Now that we've established this, we can look at Romans 10:13 which says, "...whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."  This easy believism also encourages being a "carnal" Christian.  More heresy!!  Ephesians 2:1 tells us that we were DEAD in our sins, but Christ made us ALIVE.  In verses 8-9 the Bible tells us, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works lest anyone should boast."  WITHOUT JESUS AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR, WE WILL DO NOTHING BUT SIN!  In verse 10 it says that, "we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."  The reality is that if we don't embrace Christ as Lord and choose to be a "carnal" Christian, we aren't taking up our crosses (like Luke 9:23 instructs us), we aren't following Christ, and we aren't saved!