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Results from: Answers On or After: Thu 12/31/70 Author: Dalcent Ordered by Verse |
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21 | What's the MATTER? | Col 2:9 | Dalcent | 154858 | ||
Barring my question, the teaching of 2,000 years of orthodox historic Christianity because of an evangelical sectary's agenda. 'To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.!' Cardinal John Henry Newman. Sad! |
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22 | SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH | 2 Tim 2:25 | Dalcent | 156069 | ||
My wife(-to-be) and I were prayed for by English Pentecostal leader Colin Dye in 1995. Both of us felt an enormous physical energy, like hundreds of locomotives approaching and then we both smashed to the ground without time for "catchers" to be able to approach. Ten years on my wife sometimes suffers debilitating headaches from the neck injury which never fully recovered. One pastor's (who now is the Principal of Elim Bible College in England) flippant interpretation of this event was to compare it to Jacob's hip injury. |
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23 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132304 | ||
Titus 3:5’s, 'washing of regeneration' if translated literally (i.e. see any Interlinear NT) is the 'bath (loutrou) of regeneration.' The key to understanding the doctrine of baptismal rebirth is to understand that baptism must be obviously be accompanied by belief. As the scriptures literally says in Mark 16:16 ‘He who HAS BELIEVED AND HAS BEEN BAPTIZED shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.’ Also, 1 Peter 3:21 literally teaches ‘Corresponding to that, BAPTISM NOW SAVES YOU--not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience--through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.’ Although, some strangely object, this must obviously mean ‘baptism doesn’t save you.’ It is the clear unequivocal teaching of scripture that baptism is concomitant with remission of sins: Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins... Acts 22:16 'Now why do you delay? Get up and BE BAPTIZED, AND WASH AWAY YOUR SINS, calling on His name.' When your sins are remitted, you are right with God: When you are baptised your sins are remitted. Whoa betide the man who puts off his baptism for months or years believing this is biblical. Biblical baptism is administered as entry into the Christian walk, on the first day and scripture teaches it remits sin (obviously by appropriating the benefits of Christ’s atoning death on the Cross). To Him Alone be the Glory |
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24 | Titus 3:5 and washing of regeneration | Titus 3:5 | Dalcent | 132305 | ||
It should be especially be noted in the conversation between Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch that he says, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?" as he chooses to enter into the Christian fold. Why not does he not get ‘led in the sinner's prayer’ to salvation. (Maybe one could do some research on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s 2,000 year doctrine of baptismal regeneration before they suggest I’m preaching novelty). Consider also the following verses: Gal 3:27 For all of you who were BAPTIZED into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 1 Cor 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all BAPTIZED into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. Col 2:12 having been buried with Him in BAPTISM, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. For anyone able to read the Bible in its plain sense, rather than through their preconceptions, it is obvious that Titus 3:5's 'bath of regeneration' is referring to the baptismal tank of regeneration. This is of course entirely consistent with the rest of the NT. Some will argue that aforementioned references to 'baptisms' are metaphors for regeneration through the born-again prayer. There is no excuse for this butchery of the plain sense of scripture. On the other hand, is the born-again prayer really truely biblical? Why is this prayer entirely absent from the Bible. There are loads of prayers in the Bible, such as the Lord’s Prayer; how can the prayer ostensibly needed to ‘save humanity’ be absent in a 1089 chapter book. Even the slimmest tract has a example prayer. Yet, God chose not to put one in His Bible because it isn’t how He intended the Christian to receive the New Birth. (Romans 10:8-10 IS NOT a prayer, and such a profession is entirely consistent with the faith verbalised and internalised accompanying Baptism). To Him Alone be the Glory |
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