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To: JOAT
Then how could Paul be preaching the gospel and refusing to baptize?

Salvation is by faith, believing. Even Jesus said so.

John 1:10-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 3:14-18 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

34 posted on 02/01/2015 5:14:38 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Okay, you posted several scriptures regarding believing.

That in no way contradicts the biblical command to be baptized.

Go back and read Acts 19.

WHY did Paul command these men to be re-baptized? Seems a little silly if they just needed to "pray Jesus into their hearts", no?

Also in the passage I posted to you, Acts 22:16, WHY did Ananias tell Saul/Paul to be baptized?

He had been PRAYING for days...

38 posted on 02/01/2015 5:30:08 PM PST by JOAT
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