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1 | Please clarify your statement | Matt 26:29 | Hank | 34713 | ||
Raven, Mommapbs wanted me to respond to your former post; I declined, giving you the opportunity to expand and elaborate on your position. Now that you have done so, I am now in the position to say that I do not subscribe at all to the doctrinal view that the waters of baptism have any power at all to regenerate a penitent believer. The water of baptism is not the blood of Christ. The blood of Christ is the blood of Christ, and it is it that our Lord shed for our redemption. We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Nothing less and nothing more. I am keenly aware of your view; I grew up in a church that held it; but emphatically I do not believe the corpus of Scripture supports it at all. Having said that, and not wishing to burden you or the forum with more and more words on the subject, a subject that has been discussed many times and at considerable length on the forum, I invite you to use the Search feature and enter "baptism" if you care to read more of what I, along with many others, have already posted on this topic. It distresses me that I must voice so strong an objection to your third post on the forum; nevertheless, I do so without personal bias toward you and take this time to bid you welcome. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Please clarify your statement | Matt 26:29 | Tim Sheasby | 34783 | ||
This has been thoroughly discussed, from both sides of the water baptism fence in other posts (I know because I was actively involved in those posts!). Raven sounds as if he is of the same religious background as I. I have in recent months, through this forum, personal study and other debates, had to re-evaluate MANY of my belief structures. The church I grew up in has a slogan that says "we speak where the Bible speaks and are silent where the Bible is silent". This is an admirable creed but unfortunately I have found that though we said it we didn't always do it. In trying to live by that statement or principle I have had to re-think many things. One of those is baptism and salvation. I am still studying this and other issues but my aim and purpose is always to come to a fuller knowledge of the truth. In His Service Tim Sheasby |
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