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To: The Grammarian
Did you pour water over your own head? If not, exactly what did you do?
17 posted on 03/26/2004 12:42:11 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal
Did you pour water over your own head? If not, exactly what did you do?

I said it already. "I had water poured over my head" (passive voice). Again, I'm not the one saying baptism is salvific. Moreover, your continual usage of me as the case subject ("What did you do?") is flawed, since I was baptized as an infant, and the Biblical account is of the first Christian baptisms, which were to adults. More generally, what do adult baptismal candidates do? They submit to being baptized and affirm their belief in Jesus Christ. Again, that's not the doctrine in contention. Show support for the belief that requiring baptism for salvation (that is, requiring a ritual for salvation--something other than faith alone) is Biblical, and that taking "for the remission of sins" in Acts 2:38-9 is a ritual done in order to rather than because of the remission of sins.

18 posted on 03/26/2004 1:37:20 PM PST by The Grammarian (Saving the world one typo at a time.)
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