[LearsFool]

Let's think through this together. :-)

You remember the story of Naaman the leper in II Kings 5? Let me pose a few questions for you to consider. (I'm not asking you to reply with your answers, but please give them some thought.)

What was it that cleansed his leprosy? The power of God? The water in the Jordan? His faith? His obedience in dipping?

If he had dipped in the Jordan BEFORE God's instructions through Elisha, WITHOUT those instructions, would he have been cured? If a leper travels to the Jordan today and dips seven times, will his leprosy be cured?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ve heard the Naaman story every time the Cambellites began their spill, and every other attempt to show water cuts off the past such as the crossing of the red sea and the crossing of the Jordan river.

They don’t go into the fact that all those who crossed the Red sea died in the desert except the very young and Joshua and Caleb. Even MOSES was not allowed into the promised land. Also, when the Jordan river closed behind them they still had several tribes take possession of land on the East side of the river.

Everything in Campbellite doctrine revolves around water baptism. Everything!

For others, everything revolves around what CHRIST has done for the believer.