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101 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 16873 | ||
CDBJ, Jesus has the authority to forgive sins on earth. When he was alive he forgave people. Baptism is the participation of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. ( Rom. 6:1-9) Did you read the scripture I wrote to you? Jesus was alive on the cross when he forgave the thief’s sins. It wasn’t until he died did the new covenant get established. Which is evident in the tearing of the curtain of the temple, the earthquake, etc. That is why he replied in his last words “it is finished”. He came to do what he was born to do. To die and give us a way to life. So I would say that no, Jesus did not make a mistake. Kin |
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102 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 16615 | ||
Hi Tim, Thank you for your response. Upon reading 1 Peter 3:21 I would have to say that the symbol is not the baptism, but the symbol is the water from the flood. who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge[5] of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Peter says Noah was saved through the water, (which was an act of obedience). This water (the flood waters) symbolizes baptism that now saves us.(vs. 21). When I think of water baptism saving us, I have to agree. It is a command of God ( Acts 2:38, Matt. 28:18-20 etc.) Consider 2 Kings 5:1-14. Naaman was cleansed from his leprosy only because he obeyed. If he didn't dip himself into the river would he have been cleansed? No. Did the water cleanse him? No. But that was the command given by God so Naaman did it, as much as it didn’t make sense to him! If we can understand this illistration we can understand how our water baptism saves us because it is an act of obedience. Will we be saved if we don't obey this command to be baptized? I don't think we would be saved any more than Naaman would have been healed if he didn't obey. Wow! I can really get into this stuff. I hope you would put up with me! I am interested in hearing what you think. And I hope we can talk about this (very controversial issue) in good spirits. I haven’t been so lucky as yet on this forum. I have deep convictions on what I believe, but there is the need for me to repent in the way I come across. And I need to get back to those I might of run over with my words and make amends. I want this forum to be a source of truth and not hostility. So if I get going on an issue, let me know if what I say is not with the “gentleness and respect” 1 Peter 3:15 teaches us. Thankx, Kin |
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103 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 16610 | ||
"there is one baptism" Eph. 4:5 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, "Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?"[6] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. Acts 836-38 Show me where the bible makes a difference between water baptism and being baptized into the body? The eunuch was baptized with water. There is no mention of a "sinners prayer" or of confession, in which many declare is the only thing needed. So how else was the eunuch baptized into Christ? Why do people get baptized at all? Please show me where this is taught in the scriptures. |
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104 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15973 | ||
If baptism has nothing to do with getting to heaven then why does Paul write in Rom. 6: What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5 If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with,[1] that we should no longer be slaves to sin-- 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him Paul states clearly that we are buried with christ through baptism into death and raised with him to a new life. He says we need to die with him to live with him, and baptism is the place this takes place. |
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105 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15972 | ||
The scripture says Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."[2] 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. 9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died Paul said that "once I was alive apart from the law." I have to wonder when sin sprang to life in Paul. It seems to me Paul is referring to an age when he became accountable; when he understood what the law said. Children don't understand the law. You can testify yourself if you have seen a baby or a toddler how innocent they are. I won't say when the age of accountability is, but a guess would be around the preteen years. (my son is a preteen!)They are going through all sorts of physical, psycological, and mental changes. So I would say a child is saved up to their age of accountability. Their ability to choose Jesus or not. And only God knows that time. |
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106 | Unbaptized children | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15970 | ||
Where does it say in the Bible that baptism is a "symbol"? | ||||||
107 | do we have any free will? | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15969 | ||
Tigerman, Do you think we continue to have freewill after we are saved? The choice to leave God? Kin |
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108 | Where is the answer to these verses? | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15966 | ||
Hey Tim, I never got a response to my comment to you. Was I too long winded? Did I come across the wrong way? I apologize if I did and would like to hear some more of what you think and have further disscussion. Kin |
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109 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15947 | ||
Hank, What is your interpitation of Heb 3:12-15?Heb 6? Heb 10:26-39? John 15:1-17? 1 Tim. 4:16? 1 Tim. 5:8? James 1:12-13? Peter 1:8-11? 2 Peter 3:20-22? Luke 15:31-32? 1 John 1:8-10? 1 John 2:24-27? 1 John 5:16-17and Mark 3:28-29? Just to name a few. The scriptures you showed me back up what you believe if you only consider them alone. But my challenge to you is to study out these passages with an unbiased heart and praying to God for truth and wisdom. Until we consider the WHOLE Bible, the whole truth will remain to the discretion of the biased heart. Kin |
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110 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15945 | ||
"if his conversion was truly genuine"? Was yours? How do you know? Is that eternal security, not knowing for sure? Do we have to say the right words? Feel the right way? If a "believer" leaves christ do you right him off as "never a believer"? " A good tree cannot bear bad fruit;by their fruit you will recognize them" A believer will live a life for christ. Will live according to the word of God. If a person lives for God it will be clear to all. "By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another." Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. God doesn't leave us wondering who is saved and who is not. His word "is living and active, it judges the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart." Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. Gods word says we can tell those that are saved from those that are not. So if someone is living for God and turns away and goes back to his old life, it will be very obvious. He has denied the faith and is jepordizing his salvation. Kin |
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111 | Rev 2:17 additional question | Rev 2:17 | kin | 15766 | ||
Considering that the 144,000 were male virgins (Rev. 14:4), I wouldn't take it for what it says. And that only because Rev. is a very symbolic book. We need to study the things of the Bible that are clear and apply them to the things that are not as clear. To derive doctrine from the book of Rev. is not wise. | ||||||
112 | Eternal Security? | Bible general Archive 1 | kin | 15764 | ||
Hey Tim, Those are some great scriptures! I am one of those in the forum that believe that you can walk away from God and lose your salvation. So when I read these scriptures I take them for what they say."if you hold firmly";"if you continue in your faith";"not moved from the hope"; "be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure". There are many more scriptures that teach these things. They by no means teach that we can be saved by "works". Works are something you do to earn something. Nothing I can do will make up for my sin. The only way the wall of sin comes down is through the blood of Christ. And that is not my doing that is the arm of God. So God has done his part for man. Given man a way to life. Do all get life? Only those that choose it. And that by faith. It is funny that so many say you can't choose to leave God. You choose life or death when the word is preached to you, so why,after you have recieved life, does God take away your freewill to choose? He doesn't! Where is the ability to love when the will of choice is taken away? God does not force us to love him or we would just be like puppets. In my marriage I want my wife to love me, to choose to love me. What kind of relationship would we have if I forced her to stay married to me? I believe that the sacrifice on the cross COMPELS me to love God. I believe that Gods mercy COMPELS me to stay faithful. Many things compel me to do Gods will, but nothing can force me. Know what I mean? If you ask me what eternal security is, it is simply Gods promise that there will be a reward when this life is over. There are a lot of scriptures written to the christians during their time of persecution in Rome. Some were there watching their chilren being fed to the lions. Some watched their loved ones tortured and killed. And all because they wouldn't deny christ as Lord and confess Ceasar as Lord. If they couldn't lose their salvation, why would these christians stand by and watch these things happen to their loved ones? When all it would take is a simple word to chage the minds of those killing and torturing. They held firmly to their confession of Jesus, they stood by and watched their belongings taken, their loved ones killed because they new that "if they held firm" they would recieve the eternal life promised them. That, my friend, is faith. I have so much to say on this subject. Consider James 2:14-26. "faith without deeds is dead". I wonder what the church in Corinth would have been like if the christians didn't repent of their "sexual immorality"? Can we live a sinful life and not harden our hearts towards God? Our deeds reflect our faith. Or consider the parable of the sower ( Mark 4). vs.21 trouble and persecution causes a falling away. vs. 22 worries, deciefullness of wealth and desire for other things choke out the word. If we don't gaurd our hearts against the things of the world, we can be drawn away and enticed. " be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion waiting for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith," 1 Peter 4:8-9 We are forgiven of our sins but satan is still out there. Our shelter from him is Jesus! So we have a choice to make everyday. Do we walk the narrow path or do we take the road most traveled, the easy road to destruction? I wish I could say more on this subject, but I am out of time. I look foward to hearing from you Tim. Kin P.S.- I know a Tim Moran in N.H. Where do you live? |
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113 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15674 | ||
Hank, Thank you for your response. A couple of things I have to clear up. One is that I dont believe salvation is based on the good works you do. My point is that sin, though forgiven, still can harden the heart of the believer if there is not an active part on the part of the christian to repent of it. Can a christian be sexually immoral? 1 Cor. 5 makes that clear. Can a christian continue to be immoral and live for God? His house is divided, he will fall! Consider these passages in Heb. 6 and Heb. 10. It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Jesus talks about the same issue in John 15. "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned I never said that Jesus takes back his salvation every time we sin. But I hope I made it clearer that if we don't repent and actively try to change the things in our lives that cause us to sin, we will harden our hearts towards God and turn away from him, and lose our salvation. About Luke 15. Your explaination of this passage is entirerly speculation. The passage does't say that the "son will remain a son no matter what; he is forever a son; etc." But it does say in the passage below that the son "was DEAD and is ALIVE AGAIN, he was LOST and is FOUND." If the son never returned to the father (repentence) he would have remained "dead" and "lost". An explanation of this scripture outside of what it clearly says is not something I want to hang my coat on. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!' 31 "My son, the father said, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found." Please respond to the scriptures I showed you and give me your point of view. I look foward to hearing from you. This is good for my study! -Kin |
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114 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15380 | ||
Hank, Your analogy of the lost son is innaccurate. In vs. 31-32 you will see that the son was "lost but is found, dead but alive." The context of chap. 15 is sinners that need to repent. If the son never came back to the father he would have remained "dead" and "lost". But he did repent saying "I have sinned against heaven and you.""I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[1] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. 5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. John 15 Here Jesus gives us the choice to remain in him or not to. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in." 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. 22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. Rom. 11 We see here that we need to stand by faith. Our part of the covenent. To say that Jesus has to be crucified over and over is not what I said. Absolutely his blood covers over all sins! But the covenent that God gave us requires us to have a heart of repentence in order to "remain in him". The ability to choose, that God gave us from the beginning when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God and were thrown out of the garden, was given to us because God wants us to stay with him because we want to. If you take away the ability to choose you you take away love. And as far as a child of God wanting to leave for Satan...I have seen those committed to Christ turn back to the world because they were unwilling to pick up their cross and deny themselves, a cost that Jesus tells us to count before we follow him (Luke 9:23). We are all subject to temptations. If we are unwilling to walk the narrow way, and try to change the things in our lives that caause us to sin, those very things will entangle us all over again and harden our hearts for God, turning us back to yhe world. Peter warns us that it will happen; 2 Peter2:20-22 -Kin |
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115 | Once Save; Always Saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15257 | ||
"If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have recieved the Knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left. But only a fearful expectation of judgement and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God."Heb. 10:26-27 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance, because[2] to their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. 7 Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. 8 But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned. 9 Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are confident of better things in your case--things that accompany salvation. 10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. 11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, in order to make your hope sure.Heb. 6:4-12 And how do we make our hope sure? Repentence is the point being left out in all these letters I am reading. Jesus came with grace and truth. John 1:17. The grace covers over our gazzion faults, but that doesn't take away our responsibility to repent, to obey, to live for God. That is the truth! That is why the Hebrew writer tells them to be diligent in the things they were doing! And by the way, we get our eternal life when Jesus comes on the last day! All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country--a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.Heb. 11:13-16 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect Heb. 11:39-40 Study this chapter in Heb. and you will see that faith is what saves them and that same faith saves us. We both receive the promise on the last day. "Together with us." So my encouragement to you is to live your life for God. Go after the things in your character that cause you to sin, and remember the amazing love our Father has for us so that when you do sin you can come before him with a heart of repentence and receive mercy! |
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116 | What is eternal life? What is saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15251 | ||
Once you have accepted Jesus' sacrifice does not mean you will accept it the rest of your life. GOD guareentees us life if we are willing to take it. The decision isn't one day, it's a decision we need to make everyday. We can't take away choice. God gave us the ability to choose because he wants to have a relationship with us. God will not force us to stay with Him if we want to walk away, just like I can't force my wife to stay with me if she ever wanted to walk away. | ||||||
117 | What you are saved from? | John 6:37 | kin | 15247 | ||
Dear Bill Mc, You are correct that being saved does not depend on our ability to live to God because "all our righrous acts are like filthy rags." Isa 64:6. But God does call us to live holy lives. "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy;without holiness noone will see the Lord."Heb. 12:14. And in Gal.5:19-20 Paul says to the Christians not to live a life of sin or they "will not inherit the kingdom of God". In the Corinthian church sin was a problem paul was addressing to the Christians. In 2 Cor. 7:8-10 Paul says there are 2 types of sorrow for our sin. Godly sorrow which leads to repentence and worldly sorrow which leads to death! Repentence was the issue. We are forgiven of ALL sins if we cotinue to repent and turn to God, because He is our source of forgiveness. But we have a choice to follow God or not. God has made His promises to us, He will forgive. Will we stay committed to Him? That's our choice. Kin |
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118 | Once Save; Always Saved? | John 6:37 | kin | 15083 | ||
JD, I have to agree with sister D. To take bits of scripture and base ones whole belief/doctrine on it is dangerous! 1 Tim. 4:16 teaches us to watch our life and doctrine CLOSELY. A great example is the popular John 3:16. Many use this verse to teach that all you have to do is beleive to be saved. Yet Jesus teaches in John 8:31-32 that we need to hold to his teachings to even know the truth! Jesus taught us how to have a relationship with God. God gave us the choice to love him or not to love him. Once you are saved, does that nullify choice? Are you not capable of turning your back on God? If you didn't have a choice you would be a puppet on strings. God doesn't want that. He wants your heart. Remember, without choice there is no love. |
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