You said it, Esaias,
There are people on here that are “rebels at heart” and we can give them a dozen scriptures and it makes no difference. Evidently they don't believe the Bible, only their own heart. Even saying lay the Bible down to get closer to God.
I pray that no one listens to them. And I pray that God will open their eyes.
Esaias wrote,
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Why is there an issue about this? I cannot fathom why someone would spend so much effort trying to prove baptism doesn't save us, sins aren't washed away in baptism, baptism is a 'work', baptism doesn't really do much of anything... what's the point? Such arguments only seem to support someone who wants to REFUSE TO BE BAPTISED. Whoever heard of a believer in Jesus who REFUSED TO BE BAPTISED?
It's like finding an answer to a question never asked, or a solution to a problem that doesn't actually exist
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Houston wrote
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So we should shut up as y'all proclaim that baptism is for the forgiveness of sins?
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I don't believe that anyone said “
that baptism is for the forgiveness of sins.” God forgives when a person repents. And we are told in Gods Word, that baptism washes those forgiven sins away. It also tells us,
'it is a circumcision of the heart.”
Circumcision in the natural cuts away part of the flesh. Circumcision of the heart, since all our thoughts come from the heart, is burying the old man, the flesh, in a watery grave, to rise to walk in newness of life. That newness would be in
“the fear of the Lord,” to learn to hate evil, but because we have free will, many go back and revive, pick up the old man again.
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Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection
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There are parts of the Bible, that if we could we would question the interpreters, but to question God's Plan of salvation, is to shake our fist at God, telling Him that we know of a better way.