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You say the Gentiles were already saved in 1 Cor 10 before baptism? Then why did Peter COMMAND them to be baptized in verse 48? It seems to me that it would have been unnecessary or at least optional- but commanded?? Why would an apostle command baptism if it was not necessary? And if it is...

believe for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost

I’m sorry but the apostle Peter disagrees with you in Acts 2:38, “Repent and be baptized ... FOR the remission of sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” That passage does NOT read,

True. That Was musleading. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I was confining my comments to the wording in Mark 16:16. Let me re-phrase that. The basis on which ANY person would be willing to be baptized is that they believe that Jesus is the son of God. With out that belief, it is...

I find it very interesting that every time a specific Bible verse does damage to a false doctrine, like James 2:24 destroys the doctrine of “faith only” and Mark 16:16 plainly puts baptism BEFORE salvation, then the passage itself and its credibility comes under attack. I guess the idea is, if...

He who puts food in his mouth and swallows will live. But he who doesn’t put food into his mouth will die. Do I really need to say “ and doesn’t swallow “? Do you honestly believe that a person who doesn’t believe would be baptized anyway?? Why would he.? The only reason for being baptized if...

Absolutely!! Praise God for that!! I did not mean to imply that he is still dead but He DID DIE once physically. And with his “ physical” death his “will”, the New Testament was in complete effect or force. Read Hebrews 9. It’s a true parallel to what happens to any person who has a will. My...

I will say this though. It makes all the difference as to WHY or for what purpose you are being baptized. If you were baptized just to become a member of some denomination or because you believed you were already saved then that is not the “ONE” baptism talked about in Ephesians 4. In Acts 20...

I believe that he can. the emphasis is not on the one doing the baptizing but the one being baptized.

Have I quoted any of the men you mentioned? Have I used them as any kind of authority? Have I even mentioned them? No I have not. That is because everything I have talked about in any of my post has come straight from the scriptures. I have tried to give book, chapter, and verse for every...

I apologize. Maybe I read it wrong. Or perhaps I was answering Guojing. I agree. It makes no sense to me either. I think I was trying to answer him.

Mark 16:15&16 - JESUS SAID to go into all the world and preach THE GOSPEL, HE THAT BELIEVES AND IS BAPTIZED WILL BE SAVED. So , I’m sorry, you are wrong. Jesus clearly makes the GOSPEL the subject of the Great Commission. And part of that Gospel is baptism. You know, if I knew I was speaking...

Answer to first question, YES. I BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE VERSE SAYS. From the contex of 1 Cor 10. It says they were under the cloud and in the sea giving a picture of complete immersion or covering. The word Baptize in the Greek means “immersion”. So in that sense they were...

If water baptism is ordained by God and commanded by God Matthew 28:18, 19, Acts 10:48, then how can it not be a work of God just as faith is in John 6:29. Faith is something you have to DO also. It is just as much a work as you say baptism is. Faith is performed by man also. A man has to...

Under the Old Testament law of Moses, the Jews and Gentiles were under different laws. The Jews had God’s law given to them at Mt Sinai by Moses. The Gentiles had their own law. They could become Jewish proselytes by accepting Judaism just as anyone today can. But the Jewish law separated the...

WOW! Do you really not know what the Bible teaches about baptism?? How do you get around such passages as Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38 and 1 Peter 3:21? Just to name a few. Do you attempt to “explain them away” or just cut them out of your Bible?

Sorry, but I think I will go with what the Bible says in Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Acts 8:12&13, Acts 22:16, Acts 10: Acts 10:47&48, Acts 16:15&33, and 1 Peter 3:21. If God was trying to teach that baptism is essential to salvation, I don’t know how he could have been any plainer.

Philip certainly preached baptism to the Ethiopian Eunuch because the Eunuch said “Here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?”

Since Peter preached that that’s what you must do to have remission of sins in Act2:38 and since all the apostles were there at the preaching of that sermon and then 3000 people were baptized that day, I believe they were among the 3000 being baptized. It makes no sense to argue that Peter and...

Can you give me a scripture that says a sinner MUST PRAY AND ASK God for forgiveness of sin in order to be saved? I have never read that in the Bible. Is that from God or man?