Subject: Why would someone get rebaptised? |
Bible Note: Joe, explain if you would how an infant can have a good conscience toward God by believing in the resurrected Christ? 1 Peter 3:20-21 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21The like figure whereunto 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: You could baptize a boy everyday of his life until he is eighteen years old if you like, but if after that, by chance he dies, having never trusted in Jesus Christ for his salvation he is going to hell. That isn't reform theology from Calvin, it is informed facts, from the Bible! Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. Am I wrong in saying the following and if so why bother! Baptism doesn't do any more for the (so-called) Christians that are trusting in their baptism then did circumcision for the Jews who put their confidence in the removal of a little flesh instead of trusting in the coming Messiah. Maybe I am a bonehead, but I still can't see in the Bible where Christian baptism ever precedes faith in Christ. If people want to dedicate their children fine, I'm not saying that it is wrong, just don't call it baptism because biblically speaking baptism always follows faith in Christ. CDBJ |