Bible Question:
This will be very debatable, but let me ask it anyway if I may. What Bibical support for or against baptismal regeneration can anyone provide me with? |
Bible Answer: New creature, Thank you for this thought provoking question. I hope this will help. I have a PC study bible on my computer and this is the answer it gave.Regeneration,the initial gift of life in Christ is, in the church's normal system, associated with the sacrament of baptism. The basis for this teaching and practice of the church is found primarily in Our Lord's discourse to Nicodemus-Jn 3:1-8, where in the new birth is associated not only with the quickening spirit but with the element of water.The Saviour's words, literally translated are as follows"Except one be born (out) of water and spirit (ex hudatos kai pneumatos gennoamai), he connot enter into yhe the kingdom of god. |