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To: CyberAnt

I take issue with what you say here...and I am not RCC:

“Baptism is an outword symbol of an inward change in the heart. Once a person chooses to follow Jesus, Baptism is just a way to outwardly show the commitment to your decision.”

It means far more than an outward show that one has made a decision for Christ. Believing the gospel and making a decision for Christ is essential, but Baptism is not some sort of an attached addendum to the gospel. It is part of it - the meaning of which is actually becoming one with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.

If you care to follow me on this, I can provide the scriptures that support identification with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection as an essential part of salvation.


119 posted on 03/13/2010 7:25:08 PM PST by sasportas
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To: sasportas; All

Oh, I agree with you. Of course Baptism is identification with the death, burial and ressurection of Christ.

I didn’t mean to confuse that area .. but I was talking about a specific issue, that of an infant child being baptised and why I did not believe that act predisposed the infant child to be born again. I was trying to show that baptism would be a decision the infant child was not capable of making.

I’m sorry if I didn’t make that clear.


122 posted on 03/13/2010 8:12:26 PM PST by CyberAnt (HEALTHCARE IS NOT A "RIGHT"!!)
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