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Anyone that has the Holy Spirit can baptize. One simply plunges into a running stream, head up stream, and allows the running water flowing over to symbolize the washing off of past sins, and the sin nature. This must of course be accompanied by belief that these things will happen, confession of sins and sin nature, and sincere lifetime walkout in faith.

1. How do I identify a person (male or female) with the Holy Spirit's authority to baptize?

2. Can it be still water? Salt or fresh? Must it be full immersion or can I just sprinkle the water?

3. To whom would the baptizee confess their sins to? What is "a sincere lifetime walkout in faith and how do I recognize it?

[editor-surveyor]

I was stating the tradition.

The symbolism of the water washing over and carrying away the sins is what it was all about. There is nothing in scripture about sprinkling. Every baptism in the NT is at a stream.

This authority thing begs an example.

>> “ What is “a sincere lifetime walkout in faith and how do I recognize it?” <<

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By living it. Matthew 24 gives us Yeshua’s clear words: “He that endures to the end, the same shall be saved.” All of the NT authors have written a similar requirement in their letters.

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