Subject: "Once Saved Always Saved" |
Bible Note: Lisa, Baptists do not observe sacraments. We recognize and observe two church ordinances, i.e., baptism and communion. Baptist baptism is "believer's baptism" -- it comes as an act of obedience after salvation, but it does not effect salvation. The elements of Baptist communion, the bread and the cup, are viewed as symbols of Christ's body and blood, respectively, and not as being miraculously changed as in the doctrine of transubstantiation...... Most Baptists, I believe, would like to be recognized by their changed lives, their fruits, and not by their "guilt"!...... And, Lisa, by no means it is a tenet of the Baptists that "once saved, always saved" gives us a mandate to sin so that grace may abound! --Hank |