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21 | Entering Heaven | NT general Archive 1 | rferg | 71286 | ||
Greetings! Mark 16:16 clearly states "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved." Why wouldn't you want to be baptized into the body of Christ, the kingdom of God? Why do so many resent and resist baptism? At the beginning of Matthew, Mark , Luke and John the writer is trying to prove the diety of Jesus that He is the Son of God. The very next thing is for sinners to repent and be baptized by John the baptist, then we see Jesus coming to John 3:13 Then Jsus arrived from Galilee at the Jordon coming to John, to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent Him, saying, I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me? 3:16 And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and hehold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon Him. Jesus was baptized in water in the Jordon (not a church building) during that time he recieved the promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit from His Father. Did Jesus need to be baptized to wash away His sins? NO, of course not. But when He was baptized He recieved the Holy Spirit. After He was baptized and recvd. the Spirit is when he started preaching the Gospel. Jesus is our example! We need the Holy Spirit living in us. We are a temple of the Holy Spirit. Notice that at Pentecost all who believed were baptized that day adding the their number 3000. All who believed. The entire book of Acts is filled with example after example of every believer wanting to be baptized even in the middle of the night. There is no mention, not even once of anyone who didn't want to get baptized or who question baptism as a part of salvation. I personally think we have a misunderstanding of what baptism is. This is the reason why we don't think it's important to be baptized. It is a Spiritual act for those who believe. The most important aspect of baptism is being filled with the Holy Spirit. That's why the devil wants you to believe it's not important. Also as your reading the bible notice it is those who are preaching the gospel (disciples) who are baptizing. When we as children of God (disciples) lead someone to Christ we can baptize at that time in water. This is the religious hinderance to baptism. I disagree with your interpatation of John 3:5. If you begin at the beginning of John and move forward you will see after the deity of Christ, the witness of John the Baptist and Jesus being baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit then Jesus begins His ministry of preaching the gospel. John 3 begins with the 2 births, physical and spiritual. John 3:5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit (Jesus was baptized in water and filled with the Holy Spirit during that experience), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God (this is the born again experience). In verse 6 he says that which is born of the flesh is flesh (physical birth). So through baptism in water we are born again (shallow grave) dying to our old self and being re-born of the Spirit. Jesus is the baptizer of the Holy Spirit. He gives us this gift just as the Father gave it to Him. I believe the point in verse 8 is speaking about the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is not something we can put our hand on or show to others it's like the wind, you know the presence but you are not in control of it. Now in John 3:14 it gives us the example of Moses lifing up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Numbers 21:9 is the example. 15 that who ever believes may in Him have eternal life. Read Numbers and notice what they had to do. There was an action to their belief. They had to look up at the bronze serpent if they beleived or they died. Why would this scripture be here? For an example to those who believed. Then we go to John 3:16 and by it's self is taken out of context. Those who believe will have everlasting life. But if you continue to read to verse 22 it say After these things Jesus and His desciples came into the land of Judea, and there He was spending time with them and baptizing them. 23 And John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there: and they were coming and were being baptized. 26 And they came to John and said to him, Rabi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness behold, He is baptizing, and all are coming to Him. 3:33 He who has received His witness has set his seal to the, that God is true. 34 For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for He gives the Spirit without measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hands. 36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but wrath of God abides on him. Continues on in chapter 4 about baptizing. Belief is an action. |
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22 | Simple example that we shoud keep sabbat | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 58127 | ||
Notice he was doing good, healing, helping a neighbor when his lamb was stuck in a ditch. NOT MAKING MONEY!!! |
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23 | 4th commandment has been done away? | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 58126 | ||
Chris, I just answered all of your questions. That took some time. When I sent it I had used an symbol that was not allowed and lost it all. I will answer your questions soon. RFerg |
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24 | Simple example that we shoud keep sabbat | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 58123 | ||
Friend, It's not a sin to worship God on any day. We all should worship everyday. But make no mistake there is one day, the Sabbath that is Holy, sanctified and set apart, and we are commanded not to do any work on it. We are also commanded to keep the Ten Commandments, the fourth stating to keep the Sabbath (seventh day) Holy and not to do any work. Looking at the example of the disciples...they kept the Sabbath Holy, even when Jesus had died. They waited until the Sabbath was over before going to Jesus early the next morning, first day of the week (our Sunday). God is very systematic and this follows suit of when the heavens and the earth were created, God rested from all his works on the Sabbath (seventh day). Can you show me any where in the bible where it says Sunday or the first day of the week is a holy day set apart to Worship God? Can you show me anywhere in the bible it tells us to worship together on the day of resurrection? Can you imagine if every "Christian" kept all the Ten Commandments? We would really be a witness for our God. The church would be set apart known to the world. Thanks for letting me share! |
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25 | Simple example that we shoud keep sabbat | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 58121 | ||
Friend, It's not a sin to worship God on any day. We all should worship everyday. But make no mistake there is one day, the Sabbath that is Holy, sanctified and set apart, and we are commanded not to do any work on it. We are also commanded to keep the Ten Commandments, the fourth stating to keep the Sabbath (seventh day) Holy and not to do any work. Looking at the example of the disciples...they kept the Sabbath Holy, even when Jesus had died. They waited until the Sabbath was over before going to Jesus early the next morning, first day of the week (our Sunday). God is very systematic and this follows suit of when the heavens and the earth were created, God rested from all his works on the Sabbath (seventh day). Can you show me any where in the bible where it says Sunday or the first day of the week is a holy day set apart to Worship God? Can you show me anywhere in the bible it tells us to worship together on the day of resurrection? Can you imagine if every "Christian" kept all the Ten Commandments? We would really be a witness for our God. The church would be set apart known to the world. Thanks for letting me share! |
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26 | 4th commandment has been done away? | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 57990 | ||
Chris, The Ten Commandments are good, spiritual and holy why wouldn't God want us to obey them? Can you imagine what this world would be like if every person obeyed them. No more murder, adultry (broken homes), etc. The first four commandments teach US how to love GOD. 1)Thou shall not have any other gods before me 2)Thou shall not make unto thee any graven images,thou shall not bow down to them for serve them, for I am a jealous God. 3)Thou shall not take the Lord thy Gods name in Vain. (say we believe in God and live opposite to what his word teaches) 4)remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all they work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God. (Not resurrection Sunday) HOw do you know if you love God? By obeying his commandments. The last 6 teach US how to love one another. 5)honor your father and mother 6)Thou shall not kill 7)Thou sall not commit adultry 8)Thou shall not steal 9)Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10)Thou shall not covet they neighbours house. Why wouldn't you want to learn to practice these commandments because you love God. You have a choice. When you are born again God places them in your heart and writes them on your mind. I believe the only issue with the Ten Commandments is trying to justify why we keep 9 of the Ten. This is called taking away from the Word of God. There is no bondage in keeping the Ten Commandments. All of us break the Ten Commandments, bless God He is merciful and forgives us when we realize and repent. |
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27 | 4th commandment has been done away? | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 57986 | ||
Greetings Can we please here from you more often. Your view of the bible is most interesting to me. Sincerely |
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28 | 4th commandment has been done away? | Ps 111:7 | rferg | 57985 | ||
Greetings! So what you are saying, is that it's not that we are not under the law (Ten Commandments), but we are no longer under the pentalty of the law, which is death. |
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29 | repost of circumcission and baptism? | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57151 | ||
The Sabbath (seventh day of the week, which is Saturday), is a different day than the first day of the week, which would be what we call Sunday. The first day of the week, which we call Sunday is not a Sabbath day. The Sabbath is kept from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday (approx. 6pm) after 6pm consider it a new day which would be no longer the Sabbath but the first day of the week. I have found when studying the Sabbath to determine truth you should read all scripture with this time factor in mind. The world does not live by this time factor which, could cause confusion when studying the subject of the Sabbath. |
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30 | repost of circumcission and baptism? | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57150 | ||
Greetings Kalos, Your response is flat rude! This person hasn't twisted scripture, the Protestant doctrine has. He's just trying to figure out the truth and I can tell you from experience it's not that easy after you have been taught years of false teachings. If you know so much why don't you try teaching what you know or sharing from your experience, how we can no the truth! Where is the love of Jesus in this response? Maybe you need a vacation! I don't know who is worse you or Nolan in your responses. Is this forum only for "scholars" such as you two, or can't average people ask question and share their beliefs. I am not opposed to learning something new as long as it can be proved with scripture and I don't mean just one pluck here and there to make a point. I also like to hear other peoples questions because it makes me think and it also answers my questions many time. Sincerely |
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31 | repost of circumcission and baptism? | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57149 | ||
Jesus was not teaching a new kind of Sabbath, the Sabbath is to worship the "true creator" God. That will never change. Even in heaven we will be worshiping on the Sabbath (Is. 66:23). He only made Holy ONE day and that was the Sabbath (Saturday) and sanctified it, he was showing by example that it was okay to do "good" on the Sabbath. There were many "man" made rules pertaining to what you could and couldn't do on the Sabbath. In Colossians 2:16 KJV Let no man there for judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a holday or of the new moon or of the sabbath days. I have noticed in other versions the word "days" is "day" or "Sabbaths", which would mean the seventh day Sabbath. But in the KJV is say "days" which is referring to the festivals (ordinances). This has nothing to do with the seventh day Sabbath God has commanded us to keep Holy. Also read starting at verse 14 through 17 and Eph. 2:15 |
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32 | repost of circumcission and baptism? | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57148 | ||
I agree, it seems if we don't agree with a few people on this forum there is a smart retorte. I will continue to study the bible, right or wrong about a subject at the time, and God by his holy spirit will continue to sort things out for me. | ||||||
33 | What if you don't obey that command? | Rom 6:4 | rferg | 57039 | ||
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34 | What if you don't obey that command? | Rom 6:4 | rferg | 57037 | ||
A covenant is a contract between two. I willing made a choice after hearing the gospel. The covenant I made with God was that I believed that by looking to the Ten Commandments I realized I was a sinner and needed a savior. I believe that God the Father sent his Son through a virgin birth, who died, was burried, and rose again and took my place on the cross. Through baptism I died with Christ and was raised anew. I was filled with the Holy Spirit of promise. I agree to obey God and his commandments. Baptism was also my signature to the covenant that I have with God. Flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God. You have to be Spirit. My concern is for those who have excepted Christ and for the unsaved. Many have not heard the entire gospel. When they are not preaching the entire gospel, which is including if you "believe" you should be baptized. When or if a new believer reads their bible and see's the word baptism they will not know what it means or it can cause confusion. I have also been asking many teenagers who are in Christian families if their kids are baptized and they say no and we wonder why we have kids raised in a christian home and they have no power to live like Christians. These same kids say they believe. Where is the power from the Holy Spirit to lead them in paths of righteousness? |
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35 | What if you don't obey that command? | Rom 6:4 | rferg | 57036 | ||
Again one scripture quoted by itself. Act 16:31 is a good EXAMPLE of why we who do believe need to be baptized. The story starts in Act 16:22 Paul and Silas were imprisioned and the jailer was commanded to guard them securely; 25 and after midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hyms to of praise to God. 26 and there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains were unfastened. 27 And when the jailer had been roused out of sleep and had seen the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisioners had escaped. 28 Paul cried outwith a loud voice, saying, Do yourself not harm, for we are all here! 30 And after he brought them out, he said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" 31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household." 32 They spoke the word of the Lord (the entire gospel of Christ) to him together with all who were in his house. 33 And he took them that very house of the night and washed their wounds (Paul and Silas from their blows), and immediately he was baptized, he and all his household. We know they used water here to baptize because they washed their wounds also and you need water to wash wounds. Notice they went they very hour of NIGHT to be baptized after him and his household had heard the entire word of the Lord preached to them. |
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36 | What if you don't obey that command? | Rom 6:4 | rferg | 57035 | ||
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 Paul in speaking to the bretheren (saved), , I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received (already received), and where in you stand (I take this to mean they have already "believed" were baptized and now they are believers (belonging to the family of God). 2By which also you are saved (already baptized, born again, saved), if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless you have "believed" in vain.3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture. 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.5 And that he (Jesus) was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve. The reason baptism is not mention is because Paul is speaking to the brethern, believers, born again already. |
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37 | 3 baptisms or 1, or... | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57032 | ||
Greetings! I couldn't disagree with you more in regards to Mark 16:16. I believe the KJ version of the Bible is perfect, because I serve a God who is perfect. I believe he is giving a command to the eleven, dispite their unbeif and hardness of heart (he unbraids them)(14) 15 And he said unto them, God ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to evrey creature, 16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. This is consistant with John 3:16 and Acts 2:41 If they truely believed they were baptized with water. Water is used in baptism from Matthew through acts for immersion. What position would the Israelite be in if they would have "believed" but not put the blood over their doors? When the death angle passed over they would have been dead! I also disagree with 1 Peter 3:21 if you start with verse 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God (The Family of God), being put to death in the flesh (physical body), but quickened by the Spirit(Jesus was quicked by the Spirit during baptism in water);19 by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometimes were disobedient, when once the longsuffereing of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, where in few, that is, 8 souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure where unto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Water in the above verses are the example of the meaning of what baptism he was referring to. I will use Jesus as my example!I know he was baptized in water and filled with the Holy Spirit during immersion. He wasn't baptized for sin but to recieve the Holy Spirit so he could give the gift to those who believe. |
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38 | 3 baptisms or 1, or... | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57028 | ||
I know God didn't mean for this book to be full of confusion. He expected a child to be able to understand it. If this is true and we start at the "beginning" of the NT, which would be Matthew and read forward through the book of Acts (it doesn't take that long)the message you will find is after they heard the Gospel of Christ preached, and "believed" they repented and were baptized in water. This is repeated over and over as an example. Those who "believed" by the simple act of faith were baptized in water. JOhn 3:5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. If, when you "believed" and are baptized in water, and at the time of emmersion you recieved the Holy Spirit (baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) you would be born again, now dead to sin and buried with him in baptism raised to walk in newness of life, born into the family of God and now a child of God, a new creation in christ, able to take communion with the Lord and abide on the vine, etc. why would you wait? This is how I see it. In verse 6 Flesh usually refers to the natural birth or sinful nature if I am correct, which would be referring to our physical birth from our mothers. If this is so, wouldn't the water in verse 5 refer to water baptism and not water and blood during natural child birth. In John 3:14 Why does it give the example of Moses lifting up the serpent referring to Num. 21:6 listed right after Jesus explaining to Nicodemus that he must be born again to enter the kingdom. In Num. IF they didn't look up they died, they had a choice and now through Christ so do we. If John 3:5 is not talking about water baptism what was the reason for the example. Then in John 3:16 it says For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotton Son, that whosoever "believes" in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. If you read this scripture alone it would seem all you have to do is believe but if you read from John 3:1 you will see that even though Nicodemus believed who Christ was (the Son of God)Jesus still told him he could not enter the kingdom of God unless he was born again JOhn 3:3. If you continue to read the entire chapter of 3 you will see that after darkness and light is explained in verse 22 they tarried and were baptizing and in 23 John was also baptizing in Aenon because there was much water there, and they came and were baptized. The entire chapter is about baptizing in water. In the book of Acts at Pentecost is the same example. REad 2:41 Lets go from here forward not in the middle of the NT we have had pleanty of examples by the time we get to Romans and 1 Cor. why does the meat of the doctrine need to be give over and over and over? |
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39 | 3 baptisms or 1, or... | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57013 | ||
I would like you to bury me with the word of God, commentaries are from man and are swayed by the doctrine of the person writting them. Can you give me any other examples because I can give you many examples of when people heard the "gospel of Christ" preached they repented and were baptized immediately. If you can give me other examples other than the one time exception of the criminal on the cross with Christ I can search the scriputer futher for the truth myself. Thanks for your help! P.S. I am new at this, so don't get so impatient. I thought that this is what these forum were for was to learn from each other. |
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40 | 3 baptisms or 1, or... | Col 2:12 | rferg | 57010 | ||
You use the text in Luke that the criminal on the cross didn't have time to be baptized so was he saved? I ask you this question...how many more examples can you give me when a person died and was not baptized in water? |
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