Posted on 11/04/2011 12:06:23 PM PDT by RnMomof7
1. The precious blood of Christ has a REDEEMING POWER. It redeems from the law. We were all under the law which says, "This do, and live." We were slaves to it: Christ has paid the ransom price, and the law is no longer our tyrant master. We are entirely free from it. The law had a dreadful curse; it threatened that whosoever should violate one of its precepts, should die: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." By the fear of this curse, the law inflicted a continual dread on those who were under it; they knew they had disobeyed it, and they were all their lifetime subject to bondage, fearful lest death and destruction should come upon them at any moment: but we are not under the law, but under grace, and consequently "We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
We are not afraid of the law now; its worst thunders cannot affect us, for they are not hurled at us! Its most tremendous lightnings cannot touch us, for we are sheltered beneath the cross of Christ, where the thunder loses its terror and the lightning its fury. We read the law of God with pleasure now; we look upon it as in the ark covered with the mercy seat, and not thundering in tempests from Sinai’s fiery brow.
Happy is that man who knows his full redemption from the law, its curse, its penalty, its present dread. My brethren, the life of a Jew, happy as it was compared with that of a heathen, was perfect drudgery compared to yours and mine. He was hedged in with a thousand commands and prohibitions, his forms and ceremonies were abundant, and their details minutely arranged. He was always in danger of making himself unclean. If he sat upon a bed or upon a stool, he might be defiled; if he drank out of an earthen pitcher, or even touched the wall of a house, a leprous man might have put his hand there before him, and he would thus become defiled.
A thousand sins of ignorance were like so many hidden pits in his way; he must be perpetually in fear lest he should be cut off from the people of God. When he had done his best any one day, he knew he had not finished; no Jew could ever talk of a finished work. The bullock was offered, but he must bring another; the lamb was offered this morning, but another must be offered this evening, another tomorrow, and another the next day. The Passover is celebrated with holy rites; it must be kept in the same manner next year. The high priest has gone within the veil once, but he must go there again; the thing is never finished, it is always beginning. He never comes any nearer to the end. "The law could not make the comer thereunto perfect."
But see our position: we are redeemed from this. Our law is fulfilled, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness; our passover is slain, for Jesus died; our righteousness is finished, for we are complete in Him; our victim is slain, our priest has gone within the veil, the blood is sprinkled; we are clean, and clean beyond any fear of defilement, "For he hath perfected for ever those that were set apart." Value this precious blood, my beloved, because thus it has redeemed you from the thraldom and bondage which the law imposed upon its votaries.
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all have sinned, including infants.
we have received the practice of baptizing infants from the Apostles, so of course i “support” it.
all Christians should “support” infant baptism.
Acts 10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Well, then....
I was water baptized as an infant in the Catholic church, so by your reasoning I AM SAVED.
Period. End of story.
So, why am I, and other former Catholics, being so criticized for having confidence that we are going to heaven when we die?
Can you give scripture for that?
Now, wait a minute. You're not saying that Peter here told someone that they had the Holy Spirit BEFORE they were water baptized, are you?
Say it ain't so.
LOL Read that chapter and you even find out they were filled with the Spirit before being baptized with water.
does Acts 10:47 say “ that these should not be baptized” or does it say “that these should not be water baptized”
biblical Christian Baptism involves water, the Holy Spirit and the Church.
the Bible does not teach there is such a concept as “water” baptism, nor “spirit” baptism.
no, the Bible speaks of “baptism”
this is what Christians received from the Apostles and this is what Christians have believed for 2,000 years. The Bible and the Church only know “baptism”
you may be, i can’t judge you.
anyone who hates the Body of Christ on earth, the Church doesn’t love Jesus and obviously can’t be “in Christ”
anyone who knowingly spreads lies and accuses the Church of teachings which it does not hold ( worship of Mary, salvation by works, etc )is an enemy of Jesus Christ and can’t be “in Christ”
everyone needs to examine themselves to see if their faith is genuine or false.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are >b>sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
You missed being baptized into Christ.
Christians don’t play the “sola scriptura” game, we follow Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:15.
the Church is the evidence of this Apostolic teaching.
i didn’t miss anything, as i proved in post #20, the Scriptures teach that one of the results of baptism is being placed “in Christ”
does Paul ever use the term “spirit baptism”?
that is a yes or no question.
if yes, please provide chapter and verse.
anyone who hates the Body of Christ on earth, the Church doesn’t love Jesus and obviously can’t be “in Christ” anyone who knowingly spreads lies and accuses the Church of teachings which it does not hold ( worship of Mary, salvation by works, etc )is an enemy of Jesus Christ and can’t be “in Christ”
everyone needs to examine themselves to see if their faith is genuine or false.
Either baptism saves or it does not.
Why are you now putting conditions on it? What that says is that baptism DOESN'T save anyone. If it was baptism which saved, they'd be saved regardless of what they did or what they thought.
Infants baptized in the Catholic church are considered saved and they don't exercise any faith at all. They just lay there and sleep or cry as the case may be.
So if infants are considered saved by the act of baptism, it is the act itself which saves, independent of the faith of the individual, which the baby does not yet have.
So, in practice, the Catholic church teaches that baptism saves without the necessity of faith on the part of the individual.
"Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?"
ἰδοὺ ὕδωρ, τί κωλύει με βαπτισθῆναι; Literally, "what hinders me from being dipped or immersed?" Dipped or immersed in what? ... What is the closest thing grammatically that the eunich can be dipped in? ... answer ... THE WATER!!!! Therefore water dipped, water immersed, water baptized. QED.
2. Acts 19 shows there is One Christian Baptism, the one commanded by Christ in Matthew 28 and the one that places us into Christ. Acts 19 shows us the baptism of John is not Christian baptism.
So now your own faulty logic has nullified your own argument at last ...
The Ephesians 4.5 passage says nothing about "Christian baptism" ... it says only baptism.
So, what traditions were those and how do you know?
Please cite sources to back up your contention.
That is whether they were taught by word of epistle. Not all had access to written material. Those scrolls were a little hard to duplicate on a moments notice when a new church was started or a new person was converted. The Catholic Church used that technique to deceive the people for many years. Thank God for the Gutenberg press right. That nonsense of decieving people because of no access to written word was over when printing presses came into being. Notice that coincided with the Reformation.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
How were you baptized into Christ? When? At what age?
Peter did.
1 Corinthians 6:11 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
it’s hard to believe those that claim to have been Catholic, actually were. the ignorance of the faith is too great, but then again, it’s probably that ignorance of the Faith that caused them to reject it.
read 1 Corinthians 15:1-2.
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