Posted on 05/06/2015 6:08:12 AM PDT by Gamecock
Hey Baptists: Is this how y'all see Baptism, as "just a symbol"?
What did the babe repent of?
America started in the pulpits and will end in her pulpits.
Just another sign where the whole thing is heading.
Was there a baptizing pool in the manger?
What a marroon. He’s now contradicted the basic baptism rituals of Catholics AND Baptists.
I grew up in an American Baptist Church. It’s quite liberal and not your typical Baptist church.
Hey Baptists: Is this how y’all see Baptism, as “just a symbol”?
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I would say yes. Yes they do. They don’t teach it is necessary unto salvation, so why not baptize an infant.
If it makes no difference if an adult is baptized, then it makes no difference if a baby is baptized.
What are you the Inquisition? Baptist doctrine on baptism is not a secret, is the source of their name, and the question you just asked was asked by papists shortly before they slaughtered Baptists men, women, and children.
It is a very important symbol. It’s a Christ ordained testimony of identification with Him and His local church. It’s not to be done until after salvation (per the scripture).
Our local large Baptist Church accepts infant baptisms and sprinkling now. They don’t practice it but you can join the church without being full immersed.
You don’t know Baptist doctrine on baptism and the history of the Baptist denomination. It is obviously NOT necessary for salvation. It’s just water. It has no magical powers. However, public profession and identification with Christ IS necessary for church membership. Since the local church is body Christ ordained for His ministry in this dispensation, God blesses those bodies through is immutable Word. In other words, there’s Holy Spirit privilege in being a member of local church. You can only be a member by salvation first, baptism second.
Baptists were executed by the Pope for rejecting infant baptism? It’s how we got our name. You should really change your church’s name.
My impression of the denomination is that in terms of orthodoxy it is equivalent to the United Methodist Church; for example, its stand on homosexual issues can be found here.
When I UMC back in the '80s, the youth director at our church was ABC, and she had no problems with the infant baptisms at the church.
Baptists have a Dedication Ceremony for infants. The parents promise to raise their child according to beliefs of the Baptist church. When the child is mature enough to accept Jesus as his personal savior then they are Baptized.
Too bad that so-called "pastor" doesn't understand that, nor, if he knew the truth, would teach his congregation that the rite of baptism is for sinners (babies?) who recognize their need of a Savior, pray a prayer of that repentance and ask Jesus to forgive them and live with them forever.
That did not happen in this instance and therefore no matter how that "pastor," the parents nor the "applauding audience" felt, nothing biblical happened.
How can I not know Baptist doctrine on baptism when you just agreed on what I just said? Whatever. What YOU don't know is CHRISTIAN doctrine. That from the example of Christ, to the Great Commission, to Acts 2:38 when the church began, to the teachings of Peter, Paul and the Apostles and well, just EVERYWHERE in the Bible, we see the COMMAND to be baptized unto salvation.
Sorry, but your "Billy Graham" doctrine against baptism is wrong.
Where in scripture does is specifically say you must be baptized to be saved?
Baptism is a man-made work. You must be born again of Spirit to be Saved. The “water” John talks about in John 3:5 is the cleansing of the Holy Spirit. Just like in Isaiah 44:3 and Ezekiel 36:25-27.
Read Titus 3:5 (Same context as above)....do you think baptism is necessary for salvation based on that?
We are told to be Baptized, because it’s the right thing to do, but it’s not necessary to be Saved in Christ. He did all the work for us, we obey Him by being baptized.
Hmmm...a non-Baptist Baptist. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see it in the American Baptist Churches USA.
“Hey Baptists: Is this how y’all see Baptism, as “just a symbol”?
Depends. It is the outward sign of the inward baptism of the Holy Spirit done by Jesus to unite us to Himself. It is a requirement for membership in every baptist church I’ve been in. But water baptism doesn’t save anyone. Repent and Believe. Baptism FOLLOWS that. Since an infant cannot repent and believe, baptists do not baptize infants.
We are cleansed by the blood, not by the water. As scripture teaches.
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