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1 | Is baptism a work? | NT general Archive 1 | cwade | 66323 | ||
Dearest teacher, Mark 16:16 does not say that baptism is a REQUIREMENT for salvation. Here's why: I could say that whoever believes AND goes to church will be saved. That is true. But it is BELIEF that saves, not belief AND going to church. I could also say if you believe AND read your Bible, you'll be saved. But it isn't reading your Bible that saves you. It is belief in Christ, in His sacrifice, that saves us. To say we must add something on to what Christ did on the cross is heresy. There are too many verses that clearly demonstrate that justification is by faith to say baptism is REQUIRED. (Rom. 5:1; Eph. 2:8; Phil. 3:9; etc.). Belief in what Christ has done, not what man can do, is what saves us. As I said: Baptism is just a public demonstration of the inner work of regeneration. This is why the rest of the verse says, "...but he who does not BELIEVE will be condemned." Mark 16:16 focuses on the issue of belief, not baptism. How do you feel about my scenario of someone accepting Christ and dying before being baptized. Are they saved? |
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2 | Is baptism a work? | NT general Archive 1 | Pastor Glenn | 66332 | ||
cwade, After reading your personal profile, I pray that more of us on this forum will grow up to have the same prayers for this forum as you do. Your profile ouses with love and meekness. Some measure whether other christians' growth by how well others follow their doctrine, but the scriptures say to measure it by our level of love and the fruit that we bare. (I like pasting related scriptures directly into my posts, rather than counting on the readers to have time to look them up): 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. This scripture is very humbling when we start to get lifted up in pride. We can often stray by thinking that our religion, denomination, or great biblical knowledge sets us above everyone else. But I like what Paul said: Philippians 3 3For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, 4though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: 5circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; 6concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. God Bless, Pastor Glenn |
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3 | Is baptism a work? | NT general Archive 1 | cwade | 66417 | ||
God bless you Pastor Glenn. And thank you for your kind words. | ||||||