Silly?
Or you don’t know how to answer it?
Or is this the first time that you realized that water baptism isn’t for the New Testament believers yet you still practice it.
One baptism...one. Which is it? Which to you stake your salvation on?
In addition to what Marie said...IF Jesus is not GOD in the flesh, then how do we understand who GOD is? If GOD spoke to Moses on the Mountain, he spoke to him in a language of a human being so his spirit would have a likeness of a human being if he was speaking that way.
Also we as human beings have a physical body, a soul and spirit.
All 3 of those things makes us *Us*
GOD mades us in his *likeness*
Jesus, at the Last Supper, says clearly, “This is my BODY” and “This is my BLOOD” -— and the literalists who persecuted the early Church, therefore, called us cannibals!
There is no reason why one can NOT be Baptized by the Holy Spirit AND by Water, AT THE SAME TIME! What in the world makes them exclusive?
They are the SAME!
Another problem with Millerites, SDA, and Jehovahs: FEW of them, from the early days, knew any other language but English, and their English skills were POOR at that. Then, these uneducated people do not understand the shortcomings of any translation, and they try to concoct theory that was not at all what the speaker or the author, in original Scripture, had in mind.
Listening you you types is like watching a cheap spaghetti western or a cheap Godzilla movie, and knowing that what the actors are SAYING is NOT what the “translator” is saying, in the captions.
Your leaders were uneducated frauds. They made lots of mistakes. Since that time, your faith has been preoccupied by damage control and fixing your past mistakes.
I stake my salvation on Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of my faith. What happens to people who are not baptized? Do they go to hell even though they accepted Jesus Christ into their lives? Perhaps they did so just before they died.