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Results from: Notes On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: flinkywood@hotmail.com Ordered by Date |
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1 | To be saved must we be baptised? | Acts 2:38 | flinkywood@hotmail.com | 78066 | ||
Tim, I got baptized because I wanted to declare openly my decision to be belong to Jesus. I felt it as a first act of obedience to Him. I could have died before baptism, could have died before my wedding, in either case I was already married in my heart. It seems evident from scripture that all acts of faith are like that. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Rom 10:10) You apparently feel the same. Colin. |
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2 | To be saved must we be baptised? | Acts 2:38 | flinkywood@hotmail.com | 78029 | ||
I browse this site frequently but rarely feel like tossing my cents in. There's an awful lot of jot and tittle-stumping in here. | ||||||
3 | To be saved must we be baptised? | Acts 2:38 | flinkywood@hotmail.com | 78000 | ||
Hey, guys, I've been sporadically watching this string get stringier and stringier. Remember the thief on the cross? "One of the criminals who were hanged there was hurling abuse at Him, saying, "Are You not the Christ? Save Yourself and us!" But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? "And we indeed are suffering justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." And he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom!" And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise." (Luk 23:39-43) Jesus didn't mention baptism. Then there's Acts: and after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household." And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house. And he took them that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. And he brought them into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, having believed in God with his whole household. (Act 16:30-34) So believe, speak, then baptize, if you can baptize, but it's not necessary for salvation. Imagine you're in a foxhole under an artillery barrage. Your buddy leads you to Christ but says you've got to go jump in a lake. You, wanting to be with the Lord, sprint towards that body of water 100 yards hither and are hit in the bean and blown to vapor. Next thing you know you're with the Lord, who tells you that your buddy was dead wrong. Ouch. |
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