Noted and understood. I really posted that to re-inforce your contention that baptism is a sign of something that already occurred. At least that’s what I understood you to mean.
Ah, thank you. Yes, something that has already occurred, and in a few instances, the actual baptism becomes an exorcism of attached demons.
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Yes that something is what is spoken of in Hebrews 6
[4] For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
[5] And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
[6] If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
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This is why Paul was so diligent to warn his sheep that their receipt of the Holy Spirit was a fragile gift, and therefore to work out their eventual salvation with fear and trembling, lest they fail to endure.