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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

There is only one baptism that makes you a Christian.

Is it water baptism? Or is it baptism (immersion) by Jesus in the Holy Spirit?

“You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.” - Romans 8

There are 7 ‘one’s in Ephesians 4. How many of those ‘ones’ refer to a physical act or being? ZERO.

“’And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams;
even on my male servants and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
And I will show wonders in the heavens above
and signs on the earth below,
blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;
the sun shall be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood,
before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’” - Acts 2

“But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4


84 posted on 08/11/2011 6:06:00 PM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: Mr Rogers

the problem is many reject the historical, orthodox Faith that the Church received from the Apostles. that Faith was articulated by Peter in Acts 2:38.

some teach two baptisms, unheard of by anyone until the 16th century. this is not the Christian Faith, it is not Biblical.

When Jesus gave His authority to the Church in Matthew 28, He didn’t say to “water baptize” or “spirit baptize”, He said baptize.

as Paul says in Titus 3, “he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit”

BTW - do you believe the old Gnostic heresy that Jesus did not have a real body? you seem to with that Ephesians 4 theory of yours.


89 posted on 08/11/2011 6:33:23 PM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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