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To: Mr Rogers

Are you saying that Baptists don’t follow the Bible where one baptism is stipulated?


119 posted on 10/06/2015 2:52:33 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

“Are you saying that Baptists don’t follow the Bible where one baptism is stipulated?”

There IS only one baptism that unites us to Christ and justifies us: the baptism of the Holy Spirit, done by Jesus Christ.

“For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.” - 1 Cor 12

Water baptism is symbolic. It saves no one and unites no one to Christ. It is just water. Done in response to belief, it does have a role in sanctification - our separation from the world. It “saves” us like the Flood “saved” Noah - by separating him from the evil world he lived in.

“Baptism, which corresponds to this [The Flood], now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ...”

Or do Catholics reject the clear teaching of the Word of God that it is baptism in the Spirit that saves. As Peter put it:

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?” 18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.” - Acts 11


135 posted on 10/06/2015 4:14:55 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Can you remember what America was like in 2004?)
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To: Salvation
Are you saying that Baptists don’t follow the Bible where one baptism is stipulated?

There is more than one kind of baptism prescribed in the scriptures...But there is only one baptism that will put you into the body of Christ...And it has nothing to do with water...You've got the wrong 'One' baptism...

168 posted on 10/06/2015 8:29:44 PM PDT by Iscool (Izlam and radical Izlam are different the same way a wolf and a wolf in sheeps clothing are differen)
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