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To: HarleyD

You don't receive faith by being baptized, faith comes before baptism, as does repentance and confession.

Also, since you have yet to show me a translation of Acts 2:38 that renders it "because of the remission of your sins", I will take that to mean there is not one, correct?


895 posted on 01/28/2005 12:20:06 PM PST by jkl1122
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To: jkl1122; RnMomof7
"Also, since you have yet to show me a translation of Acts 2:38 that renders it "because of the remission of your sins", I will take that to mean there is not one, correct?"

I think I have answered this a number of times now. God draws you, changes you, you confess your sins, you head off doing good works (including being baptized). "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness." That includes well before being baptized. There is nothing hard to figure out in this scenario nor are there any "special cases" that God has to figure out.

It is a common practice of many of the Arminians to have "special circumstances" by which God saves people. I noticed this in your response to rnmomof7 and what would happen to people who a train runs over on the way to the baptizmo. In my mind these "special circumstances" represent a fundamental flaw in people soteriology which many don't wish to admit. God saves everyone in exactly the same way. Even those who don't have water available to "wash away their sins".

BTW-Do babies go to heaven if they're not baptized?

897 posted on 01/28/2005 12:43:43 PM PST by HarleyD (aka Codename: Heretic Harley-Ignorant Savage)
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