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To: Mark17
Water baptism is nothing more than an outward sign of a changed person.

That particular November Sunday at age 32 when I accepted Jesus as Christ and Lord of all (including me), I greatly desired to be baptized that very day in a cold mountain river along with other new and re-committed believers in Lord Jesus Christ. What a day that was!

The water baptism was a sign of my sincerity of belief and committment to follow Lord Jesus Christ from that day forward but was not viewed by me or anyone present as an action on my part that saved me from my sins and the second death.
124 posted on 01/17/2015 7:59:40 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero; metmom; daniel1212
The water baptism was a sign of my sincerity of belief and committment to follow Lord Jesus Christ from that day forward but was not viewed by me or anyone present as an action on my part that saved me from my sins and the second death.

Roger that. I bet a dip in that frigid water was literally breath taking, and an experience you will never forget. I was a former catholic, and got saved about 6 months before I went to Vietnam. I actually stayed with the catholic church for awhile. I went to mass a few more times, but as I read my Catholic Bible, I could see that even the catholic Bible didn't agree with the catholic church. I replaced it with another Bible. I was baptized in the swimming pool at Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam, by a Southern Baptist Chaplain, even though, at that time, I did not even know what a Southern Baptist was, because as a catholic, I knew nothing about any other denominations. I was 21 at the time. I kind of thought the whole world revolved around me, and I thought if I, as a catholic, could find the truth of the real Jesus, as opposed to the Jesus of the cult religions, that millions of people in the catholic church would come out of it and be saved. Obviously, that did not happen, and unfortunately, on these threads, I see the cults are still alive and well. Oh well, they have been warned.

128 posted on 01/17/2015 8:21:12 AM PST by Mark17 (Weary and worn, facing for sinners, death on the cross, that He might save them from endless loss)
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